Category: Culture

So, lacking Jimmy to give any clue (other than the obvious) as to why he wrote Smalltown Boy, we are instead given a contemporary scene inside Gay The Word’s bookshop, with a woman, probably born around 2000, saying she could connect with the song because she once left home (probably ‘escaping’ to university to be a blue hair) and stood on a train platform with a suitcase. Seriously.

Despite Peddle’s flex that the progressiveness of gender identity ideology (aka queer theory) liberated these women, they are just older and a little bit wiser. Less angry. Time has worked its natural effect, basically. Obviously Chin Tsui has fared worst, since, as a direct result of trans activism’s impact on detention policy, she experienced 18 months of unnecessary solitary confinement. These women, born with the deficits of poverty plus childhood trauma, ran head first into queer theory when they came out. ‘Beyond aggressive’ they might be, but they’re still chasing their own tails.