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The Culture Club front man, who was once a pioneer in unconventional gender expression, spouted hateful sentiments about respecting people's pronouns.Â
Singer Boy George has been slammed on social media for his views on evolving pronoun usage after he tweeted "Leave your pronouns at the door" earlier this week.
\u201cLeave your pronoun's at the door!\u201d— Boy George (@Boy George) 1578321706
The gay front man for Culture Club rose to fame as a trailblazer known for his androgynous looks in the '80s and hits including "Karma Chameleon" and "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me."
Despite his being a pioneer back then, Boy George's recent comments fed into stereotypes that have been thrown at queer people for ages.
When one Twitter user responded to Boy George's tweet by asking, "Do you not know what the fuck pronouns are?" the singer came back with "a modern form of attention seeking?"
\u201cUm @BoyGeorge. Shitty transphobic attempts at jokes like this are attention seeking. Trans people just want to be left alone mostly.\n\nCould you not?\u201d— pretending to be bi for attention (@pretending to be bi for attention) 1578489692
One fan who expressed dismay with Boy George's failure to get on board with modern pronoun usage wrote, "As much as I love you, that does sound quite ridiculous."
"You must refer to me as 'Napoleon' and that's as ridiculous as it gets!" the Culture Club singer wrote. "I used the ladies toilet throughout the 80s!"
Twitter users continued to engage Boy George and call him out for transphobia, but he kept digging in with increasingly tone-deaf remarks. Some of Boy George's responses have been deleted from Twitter, but screen shots of the original responses are floating around on social media. One social media user reminded others that Boy George was sentenced to 15 months in prison in 2009 for falsely imprisoning a male escort when he handcuffed him to a wall and beat him with a chain.
\u201cMost things are! But being disappointed is the most disappointing!\u201d— Boy George (@Boy George) 1578429044
One person asked, "What does it take to show others respect by using their preferred pronouns?" Boy George responded, "I have eyes and can mostly describe what I see."
\u201cThanks for that but I have eyes and can mostly describe what I see!\u201d— Boy George (@Boy George) 1578429097
Here are some of the responses to Boy George's tweets.
\u201c@BoyGeorge oh my god the transphobia REEKS\u201d— Boy George (@Boy George) 1578429097
\u201c@BoyGeorge Then we\u2019ll stop calling you your attention seeking identity \u201cBoy George\u201d, and use your real identity of George O\u2019Dowd, convict who falsely imprisoned and beat a man with a metal chain.\u201d— Boy George (@Boy George) 1578429097
\u201c@BoyGeorge George, hopefully you will look at all the people agreeing with you here, realize they\u2019re the ones who would have made AIDS jokes about you in the 80s, and have a change of heart.\u201d— Boy George (@Boy George) 1578429097
\u201c@BoyGeorge It's ASTONISHING to me that someone like yourself with such a past of mistakes, drug abuse and deceit can be so completely unwilling to respect others, when the only way you'd be ANYWHERE today is to ask people to respect that you're NOT exactly the person you're being right now.\u201d— Boy George (@Boy George) 1578429097
None— Boy George (@Boy George) 1578429097
\u201c@BoyGeorge Incredibly disappointed in this response, as for the majority of your career peak, people didnt know what they were seeing when they looked at you, even though you knew and were probably dismissed in the same way.\n\nEmbarrassing.\u201d— Boy George (@Boy George) 1578429097
