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Ne-Yo Shares His Controversial Take On Gender

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During a recent interview with Gloria Valez for VladTV, Ne-Yo shared his take on gender. The artist explained that though he doesn’t mind others choosing to identify how they please, his problem begins when he’s called to use people’s pronouns. He compared people identifying as anything other than their assigned sex to identifying as a “goldfish.” As expected, the clip has managed to get the attention of social media users. It’s now sparked a bit of a debate, with commenters arguing about whether or not Ne-Yo’s in the right.

“I came from an era where a man was a man and woman was a woman,” he told Valez. “It’s not my business,” Ne-Yo continued, “but it becomes my business when you try to make me play these games with you.” He went on to discuss parenting, claiming that it’s parents’ responsibility to make decisions for their kids. “I feel like parents have almost forgotten what the role of a parent is,” he explained. “If your little boy comes to you and says ‘daddy I wanna be a girl,’ you just let him rock with that?” Ne-Yo asks, “When did it become a good idea to let a 12-year-old make a life-changing decision for themselves?”

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Ne-Yo On Gender And Parenting

For obvious reasons, there were many social media users bothered by his hot take. “Let parents raise their kids however they choose,” one Instagram commenter says. “What happened to that?” Another writes, “He lives a double standard lifestyle.” Some other commenters came to his defense though, claiming he’s speaking “straight up facts.” However one looks at it, it remains obvious that Ne-Yo doesn’t mind dipping his toe in a bit of controversy.

Recently, the singer was also spotted holding hands with two different women. Some social media users have even been comparing him to Nick Cannon as of late, as he recently showed off a photoshoot with his seven kids.

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Megan Fox Fires Back At Robby Starbuck Over Comments On Her Kids’ Gender Identity

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Megan Fox has fired back at Robby Starbuck, who ran for U.S. Congress in 2022, over his comments on her kids’ gender identity. Starbuck had accused Fox of forcibly dressing her sons in girls clothes in a post on Twitter. The actress fired back with a lengthy response on Instagram, Saturday.

“Hey @robbystarbuck, i really don’t want to give you this attention because clearly youre a clout chaser but let me teach you something… irregardless of how desperate you may become at any given time to acquire wealth, power, success, or fame – never use children as leverage or social currency. Especially under malevolent and erroneous pretense exploiting my child’s gender identity to gain attention in your political campaign has put you on the wrong side of the universe.”

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Megan Fox With Her Ex-Husband, Brian Austin Green

LOS ANGELES, CA – OCTOBER 11: Actors Megan Fox (L) and Brian Austin Green attend Ferrari. Celebrates 60 Years In America on October 11, 2014 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Jonathan Leibson/Getty Images for Ferrari North America)

Fox continued: “i have been burned at the stake by insecure, narcissistic, impotent little men like you many times and yet i’m still here. You f*cked with the wrong witch.” As for Robby Starbuck’s original comments, he posted a photo of Fox with her children while adding in the caption: “We used to live in the same gated community and our kids played at the park. I saw 2 of them have a full on breakdown saying they were forced by their mom to wear girls clothes as their nanny tried to console them. It’s pure child abuse. Pray for them.”

The father of Fox’s children, Brian Austin Green, also shot down Starbuck’s allegation. “It’s a totally bogus story. There are only a few people in their world that can actually verify wether [sic] or not a story like this is true and I can tell you with absolute certainty it is not,” Green said during a statement to TMZ. “This person trying to claim this is true is a perfect example of someone with selfish motives that does not care about negatively affecting a parent child relationship.” He further accused Starbuck of being “full of s**t.” Check out Fox’s response to the story here as well as Green’s comments below.

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Shania Twain Says She Had To “Flatten” Her Chest To Avoid Stepfather’s Abuse As A Teenager

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Shania Twain opened up about the abuse she suffered as a teenager at the hands of her stepfather in a new interview with The Sunday Times. Speaking with the outlet, Twain explained that the trauma had a lasting effect on her body image.

Detailing the sexual and physical abuse her stepfather, Jerry Twain, subjected her to growing up, Shania explained that she would attempt to flatten her chest for safety.

“I hid myself and I would flatten my boobs,” the singer said. “I would wear bras that were too small for me, and I’d wear two, play it down until there was nothing girl about me. Make it easier to go unnoticed. Because, oh my gosh, it was terrible — you didn’t want to be a girl in my house.”

NEW YORK, NY – JULY 14: Canadian singer-songwriter Shania Twain performs at Barclays Center of Brooklyn on July 14, 2018 in New York City. (Photo by Nicholas Hunt/Getty Images)

She continued: “Then you go into society and you’re a girl and you’re getting the normal other unpleasant stuff too, and that reinforces it. So then you think, ‘Oh, I guess it’s just s—ty to be a girl. Oh, it’s so s—ty to have boobs.’ I was ashamed of being a girl.”

All-in-all, the abuse had a lasting effect on her comfortability expressing her femininity as she became a global superstar.

“All of a sudden it was like, well, what’s your problem?” she explained. “You know, you’re a woman and you have this beautiful body? What was so natural for other people was so scary for me. I felt exploited, but I didn’t have a choice now. I had to play the glamorous singer, had to wear my femininity more openly or more freely. And work out how I’m not gonna get groped, or raped by someone’s eyes, you know, and feel so degraded.”

The interview with The Sunday Times comes a month after the 25th anniversary of her classic album, Come On Over.

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