{"id":1929844,"date":"2023-05-12T13:41:16","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T17:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kiss-frontman-exposes-the-false-equivalencies-of-transing-kids-and-comedic-cross-dressing\/"},"modified":"2023-05-12T13:48:20","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T17:48:20","slug":"kiss-frontman-exposes-the-false-equivalencies-of-transing-kids-and-comedic-cross-dressing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kiss-frontman-exposes-the-false-equivalencies-of-transing-kids-and-comedic-cross-dressing\/","title":{"rendered":"Kiss singer debunks comparison between transgender youth and comedic cross-dressing."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fkiss-frontman-exposes-the-false-equivalencies-of-transing-kids-and-comedic-cross-dressing%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1929844&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>How Kiss and Bugs Bunny Reinforced Traditional Gender Norms<\/h2>\n<h3>A Personal Journey with Kiss<\/h3>\n<p>In the mid-1990s, when the original line-up of the rock band Kiss briefly reunited, I was a teenage alternative rocker. I took my rock music very seriously, and although I had never heard anything by Kiss other than \u201cRock and Roll All Nite,\u201d I instinctively knew they were precisely the kind of music to which the self-serious rock of the \u201990s was meant to provide an \u201calternative.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>So, I assumed they sucked. I mean, they looked like they would suck \u2014 all that dumb make-up, the frizzed-out perms, and studded leather? It all seemed to typify bloated rock excess and, by extension, inauthenticity. I didn\u2019t listen to a full album from Kiss until about 2005, but when I did, I quickly realized I had been wrong. It was fantastic. I loved it. <\/p>\n<h3>Paul Stanley&#8217;s Recent Controversy<\/h3>\n<p>Still, there are things I don\u2019t like about the band. Most recently, my frustrations have stemmed from various public statements from frontman Paul Stanley. Stanley has a tendency to wade into contentious political debates. His opinions on Covid-19 were especially grating to me: He was among the many celebrities who railed against those of us who refused vaccination. <\/p>\n<p>I tolerated this because Kiss is also very patriotic \u2014 but individually, Stanley is not usually known for his conservatism. Thus, I was pleasantly surprised last week to see that Stanley used his sizable platform to speak out against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/president-trump-please-pardon-jon-woods-a-victim-of-process-crimes-like-michael-flynn\/\" title=\"President Trump, Please Pardon Jon Woods, a Victim of Process Crimes Like Michael Flynn\">medical malpractice<\/a> being inflicted upon children who are labeled \u201ctrans.\u201d <\/p>\n<h3>The Two Forms of Criticism<\/h3>\n<p>Stanley\u2019s critics fell into two camps. When it came to the substance of Stanley\u2019s remarks, some felt he was unqualified to make them. Others had no problem with Stanley\u2019s past or his band\u2019s legacy but thought his opinions were wrong. But the critics in both camps are wrong. Kiss didn\u2019t play a role in fomenting the trends that Stanley is now challenging. <\/p>\n<h3>Comedic Cross-Dressing vs. Transgenderism<\/h3>\n<p>It is true that popular entertainment has often depicted men and women (and rabbits) who tried to pass as the opposite sex. Bugs Bunny is one example. But these are in no way similar to the trans propaganda aimed at today\u2019s youth. The difference is that 20th-century depictions of cross-dressing characters actually functioned to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kiss-frontman-exposes-the-false-equivalencies-of-transing-kids-and-comedic-cross-dressing\/\" title=\"Kiss singer debunks comparison between transgender youth and comedic cross-dressing.\">reinforce traditional norms related<\/a> to sex.<\/p>\n<p>Bugs Bunny in a dress was supposed to be funny. The reasons aren\u2019t hard to ascertain. First, audiences grasped any man who would want to pretend to be a woman (or vice versa) was patently ridiculous. Secondly, when characters from entertainment history dressed as the opposite sex, it was typically an effort to disguise themselves. <\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-cinderella-to-feature-male-fairy-godmother-who-teaches-that-magic-has-no-gender\/\" title=\"New \u2018Cinderella\u2019 To Feature Male Fairy Godmother Who Teaches That \u2018Magic Has No Gender\u2019\">gender-bending<\/a> in Kiss functioned in a similar way. The incorporation of feminine clothing and style into a rock-and-roll performance by men was intended to be a spectacle \u2014 one that shocked the audience. The femininity was insincere: This was underscored by the aggressively heterosexual themes addressed in the music and the bombastic sonic conventions of hard rock.<\/p>\n<h3>Funny Cross-Dressing a Thing of the Past<\/h3>\n<p>Indeed, humorous presentations of cross-dressing \u2014 which have consistently been a feature of Western forms of entertainment since the ancient Greeks \u2014 have all but disappeared from our media. It is not uncommon in children\u2019s programming to see situations when a boy or girl adopts the signs, preferences, or mannerisms of the opposite sex, and other children in the program start to snicker, only to have an adult character step in to teach them the moral lesson that all these stereotypes about sex and so<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/brett-favre-blasts-olympics-allowing-trans-athletes-to-compete-against-women-its-a-man-competing-as-a-woman\/\" title=\"Brett Favre Blasts Olympics Allowing Trans Athletes To Compete Against Women: \u2018It\u2019s A Man Competing As A Woman\u2019\">-called gender identity<\/a> are obsolete and hurtful.<\/p>\n<p>These troubling trends are what Stanley was warning us about. It is a great irony that a famous rock-and-roll clown is one of the few celebrities with enough maturity (though just momentarily!) to grasp the serious business of an ideology that is normalizing medical interventions for kids with sex confusion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the mid-1990s, when the original line-up of the rock band Kiss briefly reunited, I was a teenage alternative rocker. I took my rock music very seriously, and although I had never heard anything by Kiss other than \u201cRock and Roll All Nite,\u201d I instinctively knew they were precisely the kind of music to which<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2001,"featured_media":1929845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[8999,6386,19564,14228,10394,8665,4019,5513],"class_list":["post-1929844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-comedic","tag-comparison","tag-cross-dressing","tag-debunks","tag-kiss","tag-singer","tag-transgender","tag-youth"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2001"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1929844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1929845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1929844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1929844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1929844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}