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mahatmakanejeeves

(57,600 posts)
Wed Dec 27, 2017, 12:41 PM Dec 2017

"Also I've never herd of David Bowie ever, so I don't think it could make you that famous."

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Lewis Hamilton sparks controversy by telling young nephew: 'Boys don't wear princess dresses'



The dress is emblematic of the entire counter-culture of broken taboos and exploration, which is 100% the reason he is famous.


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Merlot

(9,696 posts)
1. David Bowie wore a dress on an album cover in the 70's
Wed Dec 27, 2017, 12:44 PM
Dec 2017

David Bowie wore lots of intersting clothes. The album cover is long forgotten, his music lives on.

BTW, boys wear skirts in Scotland.

anneboleyn

(5,611 posts)
5. I am a GenXer and I saw Bowie twice in concert. Even my younger millennial friends know Bowie
Wed Dec 27, 2017, 09:17 PM
Dec 2017

Many of them were very upset when he died, and he was amazingly popular across decades and generations. I remember the album and the superb song “The man who sold the world” that was covered by Nirvana in the early 1990s. Bowie is a very legendary figure in the history of rock.

lunasun

(21,646 posts)
2. Hope his nephew can stay away from this asshole yelling at him
Wed Dec 27, 2017, 01:19 PM
Dec 2017

He then shouts ‘Boys don’t wear princess dresses!’ before the youngster covers his ears with his hands and turns away

Fuck off asshole leave the little kid alone on Christmas and what he wanted
Bet he didn't ask Santa for a judgy hurtful uncle yelling at him on Christmas Day

Iggo

(47,565 posts)
3. Hey, Lewis: Decent human beings don't make little kids cry just to further their own prejudices.
Wed Dec 27, 2017, 06:54 PM
Dec 2017

Fuck you.

anneboleyn

(5,611 posts)
4. First, Bowie was/is a rock god and cultural icon. Anyone who has never heard of Bowie knows zero
Wed Dec 27, 2017, 09:14 PM
Dec 2017

about the history of rock music and pop culture more generally. Also he apparently missed all of the news coverage of Bowie’s very sad passing that had me teary-eyed for days. Second, guess what? Kids like to play dress up. I’ve seen at least several videos on YouTube like this one in which little boys are happily singing “Let it go” while dressed up in some way as the character from Frozen. The boy here is very young, and he’s at the age when kids love to dress up as the characters they love. Heck I dressed up at Darth Vader as a kid. I must want to be a pseudo-cyborg fallen Jedi?!

 

Codeine

(25,586 posts)
7. Two ditwits
Thu Dec 28, 2017, 12:02 AM
Dec 2017

actually. The person who sparked the controversy is Lewis Hamilton, a Formula1 driver who is, by most accounts, the highest-paid athlete on the entire planet, and who is one of the most famous people alive. He’s also a complete dolt.

The second person, who didn’t know who Bowie was, is just some random-ass Twitter user responding to the situation.

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