Alice Cooper recently began a collaboration with cosmetics company Vampyre Cosmetics. However, after Alice Cooper made comments regarding transgender kids, the company cancelled their deal with the legendary rock star to stand with the LGBTQ community.
Here’s the statement shared by Vampyre Cosmetics on their Instagram profile:
“In light of recent statements by Alice Cooper we will no longer be doing a makeup collaboration,” they begin. “We stand with all members of the LGBTQIA+ community and believe everyone should have access to healthcare.”
The statement also adds that “all pre-order sales will be refunded” as you can see below:
@VampyreCosmetics has deleted their account after canceling their makeup collaboration with Alice Cooper pic.twitter.com/3Bhqxy5AH5
— Chris Bertman (@manofbert) August 25, 2023
The comments made by Cooper originated from an interview with Stereogum. They asked, given his past expectations surrounding gender in the 1970s, what he thought about gender-affirming care for kids. He ended up calling these cases “a fad” as shared below:
“Yeah. I’m understanding that there are cases of transgender, but I’m afraid that it’s also a fad, and I’m afraid there’s a lot of people claiming to be this just because they want to be that. I find it wrong when you’ve got a six-year-old kid who has no idea. He just wants to play, and you’re confusing him telling him, ‘Yeah, you’re a boy, but you could be a girl if you want to be.’
I think that’s so confusing to a kid. It’s even confusing to a teenager. You’re still trying to find your identity, and yet here’s this thing going on, saying, ‘Yeah, but you can be anything you want. You can be a cat if you want to be.’ I mean, if you identify as a tree… And I’m going, ‘Come on! What are we in, a Kurt Vonnegut novel?’ It’s so absurd, that it’s gone now to the point of absurdity.”
He also made some statements regarding “the whole woke thing” that’s had an impact on our modern culture including the likes of Disney:
“The whole woke thing… Nobody can answer this question. Maybe you can. Who’s making the rules? Is there a building somewhere in New York where people sit down every day and say, ‘Okay, we can’t say ‘mother’ now. We have to say ‘birthing person.’ Get that out on the wire right now’? Who is this person that’s making these rules? I don’t get it. I’m not being old school about it. I’m being logical about it.”
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