CHATTER AWAY: Overnight Open Thread

Billboard Magazine reports:

Alice Cooper‘s new makeup products, released in collaboration with Vampyre Cosmetics, have been dropped from the cosmetics brand’s website in light of the rock singer’s recent anti-trans comments. Vampyre Cosmetics is described as a “women and LGBT+ owned” company on the “About Us” page.

“I mean, if you identify as a tree … 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,” Cooper said.

He also shared anti-trans rhetoric about access to public bathrooms. “A guy can walk into a woman’s bathroom at any time and just say, ‘I just feel like I’m a woman today’ and have the time of his life in there,” Cooper said.

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“In light of recent statements by Alice Cooper we will no​​​​​​​​​ longer be doing a makeup collaboration,” the cosmetics brand announced. https://t.co/qBcpDj11hF

— billboard (@billboard) August 26, 2023