It’s because Kurt was at least somewhat transfem.
So to you, the only way for a man to feel empathy for women, is if they are “somewhat transfem”…
You need to meet better men.
There’s been discussion about if Cobain was trans. This poster didn’t just make it up
Posted elsewhere in this thread but https://trending.knowyourmeme.com/editorials/guides/why-do-some-people-think-kurt-cobain-was-trans-the-viral-debate-explained is probably a fine starting point.
You’re basing that off a common style at the time. Least you think many rock and grunge artists were coincidentally all that, with Kurt actually being less involved by comparison.
Don’t make shit up and tell people it’s so, simply because you wish it were so. That’s Trumpistic.
… leave it to Nirvana to come in and actually make a decent stance for feminist issues.
Granted, it’s hard to talk about Nirvana’s approach to this topic on principle. Since all of these are issues that affect the opposite sex, it’s hard to justify Cobain’s stance at times without him coming off as the white knight in shining armour doing his best attempt to save the dignity of an entire gender.
But looking through how Nirvana tackles feminism, it’s not about being the saviour for women. It’s about putting men in the shoes of the opposite sex and seeing what happens when they are put into some of the most deplorable scenarios anyone would have to go through. Just look no further than their most famous feminist tune, ‘Polly’.
While this is the closest thing to a “ballad” Nirvana made on their breakthrough album Nevermind, it feels like a ballad in the same way that those extremely dark Western country songs used to be. Writing from the point of view of a sexual predator who tied up Polly in his van, there’s already an eerie energy coming off the song before we even get to the chorus.
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Always interesting none of these articles mention “Frances the farmer”? Given its blatant lyrics and even the song title calling attention to its themes just seems like a gimme.
