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Title: Smashing Pumpkins Lead Singer uses Transphobic language in internet brawl
Post by: Syh on August 27, 2011, 01:30:08 PM
Newswire
Billy Corgan gets in a nasty Internet fight with a guitar pedal engineer and trans advocate

by Anna Gross August 25, 2011

Web drama's heating up again for Billy Corgan, mere weeks after he announced he'll be heading up a new professional wrestling organization. This time around, the story involves some nasty back-and-forth between the Smashing Pumpkins frontman and a guitar pedal engineer and transgender activist.


http://www.avclub.com/chicago/articles/billy-corgan-gets-in-a-nasty-internet-fight-with-a,60967/ (http://www.avclub.com/chicago/articles/billy-corgan-gets-in-a-nasty-internet-fight-with-a,60967/)
Title: Re: Smashing Pumpkins Lead Singer uses Transphobic language in internet brawl
Post by: tekla on August 27, 2011, 01:31:58 PM
mere weeks after he announced he'll be heading up a new professional wrestling organization

So, how's the whole "I'm putting Smashing Pumpkins back together with replicas" working out for you?
Title: Re: Smashing Pumpkins Lead Singer uses Transphobic language in internet brawl
Post by: Miniar on August 28, 2011, 11:45:11 AM
.... Man, did I misread Billy Corgan or what?...
UGH!...

A part of my youth feels lost.
Totally lost...

-.-
Title: Re: Smashing Pumpkins Lead Singer uses Transphobic language in internet brawl
Post by: VeryGnawty on August 28, 2011, 02:02:23 PM
From what I hear, Corgan is an ->-bleeped-<- to everybody.  Maybe he is just full of rage.  He is still just a rat in a cage, though.
Title: Re: Smashing Pumpkins Lead Singer uses Transphobic language in internet brawl
Post by: tekla on August 28, 2011, 02:31:54 PM
From what I hear, Corgan is an ->-bleeped-<- to everybody.

Take it from me, that's an insult to ->-bleeped-<-s everywhere.