Ray doesn’t really cuss Lola - he’s just a bit surprised / disappointed that the pretty girl is… not physically a girl. It was probably a bit of an eye opener for a dude that only left home a week before. That’s how I’ve always understood it…
Not sure if the point is positive representation so much as representation, since in the original image the guy seems to be saying trans people simply didn’t exist in the 80s
I just read the lyrics and it doesn’t seem that positive. Am I wrong? It contains for example this line:
Well, I’m not the world’s most masculine man
But I know what I am and I’m glad I’m a man
And so is Lola
La-la-la-la Lola
La-la-la-la Lola
It’s just because the way we understand transgender people has changed a lot in the last 50 years. Ultimately the guy accepts Lola for who she is, so I don’t see how that can be considered bad, especially when the band has said for decades that they wrote the song to give trans people perception in the public eye.
Ray doesn’t really cuss Lola - he’s just a bit surprised / disappointed that the pretty girl is… not physically a girl. It was probably a bit of an eye opener for a dude that only left home a week before. That’s how I’ve always understood it…
For a guy in 1970 it’s pretty accepting I reckon.
Not sure if the point is positive representation so much as representation, since in the original image the guy seems to be saying trans people simply didn’t exist in the 80s
It isn’t very positive, that’s for sure. But it is historical evidence that trans people have existed before 2020