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if you could point out where i said 'lol she has a penis' it might help validate your statement.
the latter part of your post is essentially reiterating what i've already said.. but if you still have a grievance that's up to you..
i'd prefer it if you didn't call me transphobic though, as it's unjustified and untrue.. i am severely mysophobic, moderately agoraphobic and slightly arachnophobic..

i dont like any of the pop stars y'all metioned and i dont hate them, all i have to say is they are just doing thier job, it doesnt mean what they act or do in the media is their real personality or what they really are inside.my point is dont believe what you see or hear in the media

i'm well aware of what i said.. just challenging you to point out the transphobic attitude that seemed so apparent to you, unless you'd care to stop labelling me as transphobic?
i'm perfectly entitled to find it ironic and somewhat funny that someone who calls themself 'lady' and is a 'sex symbol' if not personally aimed at men, at least marketed toward them, is heavily rumoured to be a hermaphrodite. aren't i?
if she were, the only issue i would possibly have with that is the arguable dishonesty.

on topic, i don't find myself 'hating' the individual pop stars anymore, just their approach to music, their appreciation of it and respect of music (or lack thereof).. i think this has a serious negative impact on music as a whole, because they are taken so seriously by so many.
i love music and really don't want to see it cheapened and 'diminished' by anyone.

Your comment was transphobic because you were using the suggestion that Lady Gaga might be a transsexual in a derogatory manner as an insult. I realize that you may not personally have any deep feelings of hatred towards the transsexual community, but you've got to realize how that sort of talk makes you sound. To put it simply, if you don't like being labeled transphobic then you need to be careful not to say transphobic things.

That said, it is extremely likely that Lady Gaga is a cisgender woman. No one so far has been able to provide any evidence to support otherwise. I can also tell you right now that a male to female transsexual would not be able to sing the way she does. Hormone replacement therapy does nothing to alter a man's voice once it has changed during puberty. Actual transsexuals have to train themselves to use less resonance in their speaking voices, which makes them sound more feminine, and that's not going to allow you to sing in the mezzo-soprano range, the way she does. The best you can hope for is to be a counter-tenor, which... doesn't sound like her.

In all likely hood the origin of this rumor is based simply upon her appearance-- a look obviously inspired by gay drag culture as well as flamboyant gay performers like Freddy Mercury. She is basically a female drag queen. So the general young, male population, who doesn't know the difference between a drag queen and a transsexual, sees her and says, "dude, she looks like a tranny!"

i don't see where i was derogatory towards her.. and not simply because i am ignorant. perhaps that i mentioned it and appeared to find it funny, it was perceived as an insult.??
i do find it vaguely funny but is that so wrong?
i don't think she's transsexual, rather a hermaphrodite. possibly.. people on the internet say all sorts of things, the main rumour was that she herself confirmed it. anyway true or not now seems irrelevant. i give up trying to 'explain myself' i did no more than say she has a penis and added boy to her title in a way that apparently upset 2 people. i don't like her but this stems from first hearing some of her so-called 'music' after that she could look, dress and act in any way it would make little difference to my opinion.. whatever the gender of a person has no real impact on musical ability, or even really range assuming she uses auto-tune too.
i am a musician, i find her music 'disgusting' as it were, nothing else.
i need to perhaps stop talking to people who seem emotionally attached to her..

I really don't have any strong feelings towards her one way or another. It was mainly the "ladyboy" type comments you were being criticized for. You posted something on the Internet and people responded to you. That's how it works.

well i personally don't see ladyboy as a bad word.. but anyway i'm sure if there is a genuine issue i'll be contacted by a moderator soon enough.
it seems quite patronising to tell me 'i posted something on the internet and people responded...' etc
unless you genuinely believe i was unaware of how a message board usually works? but i'll leave that. i hereby retire myself from this particular topic. if i caused offence it certainly wasn't intentional, but i'm not sorry that i said what i thought in the way it first occured to me.

Well, just so you know in the future, "ladyboy" is considered extremely derogatory and offensive. My point was that when you post something on the internet, you make it available to an extremely wide audience. If you say something that is incorrect or stupid, expect to be criticized and/or made fun of. If I sounded patronizing it is only because so many people seem to misunderstand this. They seem to be under the impression that the Internet is place where everything they write can be forever enshrined without any sort of criticism or rebuttal. They seem to think the only responses they deserve to ever get are, "LOL, that's funny, dude!" or "yeah, that's a good point." What would be the fun in that?

Listen to her rendition of "Downtown" if you dare.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fw07CDid0JM

Here was a popular pop-star of the 1960's---Mrs. Miller.

nah i think katy perry is ok, but i do hate

dizzy rascall

lil wayne

leona lewis

kanye west

justin beiber

brokencyde

linkin park ( some of it)

beonce

leona lewis

jls ( no i wont put my f*****g hands up even if i am in love)

take that

Jonas Brothers

Justin Bieber

Miley Cyrus

Kanye West

Nickelback

I can't believe I forogt Nicki Ninaj. She kills every single song she's in.

I'd say the thing that bothers me the most about the the whole Justin Bieber phenomenon is not him so much as the extent to which they are pumping up this kid's ego. Being in the limelight at such a young age and having everyone constantly telling you how great you are is almost never good for a person's development. Plus his music is very boring; actually very un-catchy and dull. I mean what's the hook in that Baby Baby song? "Aaooooohhhhhh!" It sounds like someone told him to clean his room or do his homework.