I think he's conservative.
2. His extent of gender bending has been mainly to serve his own purposes as a fan of the NY Dolls and an artist. There have been no women in his band, most of the women he does employ mostly get to fetch his coffee or update his website and are paid in free tickets to shows. His belief that it is worse for women to wear fur than men because "they are mothers" borders on cave-manish understanding of the female psyche. The fact that his champions Kristeen Young is, i'll admit, a bit of a surprise because 98% of up and comers he'll put forth are groups of guys. Then again, I'll argue that he sees Kristeen as the new Linder and thinks that maybe he could save her when he couldn't save Linder and her band years ago.
So, all those years Morrissey was fake when he was professing feminist beliefs... he is really a big bad sexist pig ... Proof: he disapproves of women wearing fur?!
Well, at least he didn't write a viciously sarcastic (and I mean that in the most complimentary way) song about women who wear fur - such as
Skin by Siouxsie and The Banshees... Maybe you should go to some Siouxsie forum to accuse her of male chauvinism?
How do you know what women Morrissey employs do?! Were you his employee?? Did you ever get to see who gets to fetch his coffee? It's well known that Morrissey has - both in The Smiths and solo - worked with many women; he had had female managers, press officers, women who worked on the design of his record sleeves... Were Jo Slee, Caryn Gough, Ruth Polski, Pat Bellis, Martha Defoe, Gail Colson etc. there to fetch his coffee?! I don't think so.
Championing Kristeen Young is a "surprise"?! How so? Oh, it must be because Morrissey is known to never have admired any female artists (apart from Linder, right?)... what with Nico, Patti Smith, Joni Mitchell, Sandie Shaw and other 60s girl singers, girl groups like The Cookies, The Marvelettes etc., The Slits, Siouxsie and The Banshees, his support of The Primitives and Echobelly, Phranc...
So, we have already "learned" that Morrissey is a racist... now he is sexist, too?!
What is next - will someone accuse him of hating animals and being a vicious meat-eater??
And how would Kristeen Young be a "new Linder"?? They're both women and they both sing?
I don't see why would he need to "save" Kristeen (did something happen to her?) and I don't see how he could have "saved Linder's band"? Ludus broke up because Linder and Ian Devine fell out around 1983, even though they were invited to Brussels by Benoit Hennebert to record a new album for Crepuscule. How was Morrissey to save them - patching things up between the two of them maybe?
As for having women in his band, Puddle has already answered that:
What? how does suzanne know who morrissey employs? as far as band, he has worked with female singers. and even though members of his band have been all male, there's haven't been many members anyways. what has this p.c. world come to. Does morrissey need to hire female band members in order to be labeled liberal? when morrissey met the lads, was he supposed to say, "well i like you, but i have a quota to fill. i need to make room for a female in my band, and someone who is black, and perhaps transgender." of course not!! you work with who you want to work with. and that tirade about Kristeen and Linder is just unfounded gibberish, totally out of suzanne's ass.
3. In paradox, he does like to immortalize very brutish masculine stuff like serial killers, gangsters, and boxers. He likes watching men beat the crap out of each other and cause each other permanent brain damage, but can't take it if fluffy the bunny is getting lathered up with a new shampoo. this then leads to the conclusion that his animal rights stance is an aberration in his philosophy: violence is good if it's entertaining or it is done on people who do animal testing. To me, that's a very insular opinion of the rules of the world.
What does have to do with conservativism?? Please tell me where you have read that boxing is a conservative sport and that liberals abhor it? And since when is writing songs/books/making movies about gangsters or serial killers supposed to be a sign of conservativism?
All those conservative politicians who are continually whining about the violence on screen and asking for censorship would certainly disagree with you!!!
