Hailie Mathers posted a new TikTok video of herself showing a before-and-after of her beauty transformation, but all fans could talk about in the comments section was how closely she resembles her father, Eminem. We’ve got way worse problems we need to deal with first.Eminem’s daughter Hailie Mathers shows off her fit figure in a bikini
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Most importantly, let’s not get distracted by Eminem and his petty beefs. That’s not a good look at all, Slim.īut, on some level, there is also something to be said about defending the rights of artists (even ones who maybe aren’t at the top of their games) to be controversial and to be rude and to be unacceptable and to use language that makes us feel uncomfortable.Īs long as he’s not advocating violence, it’s hard to agree with the idea that we should be regulating and censoring Eminem’s output. And I think he ought to reflect on the fact he is a powerful white man who used this derogatory attack word against a younger person of colour. I’m not particularly bothered about defending Eminem, however – even though he has been vocal in his support for LGBTQ issues, including same-sex marriage. Sir Ian McKellen outside the Russian Embassy in London protesting the treatment of LGBTQ people in Chechnya Like the fact that our current conservative government is in political bed with a fundamentally homophobic party, the DUP. When you think about these problems that LGBTQ people face, it makes all the attention on Eminem seem quite trivial.Īnd this isn’t accidental I think plenty of people in mainstream straight society like to focus on the trivial rather than consider their own complicity. How did the world respond? By sending our football teams to Russia for the World Cup and pretending nothing was wrong. Or the pathetically weak response from governments around the world when the Chechen government, a state in Russia, launched a murderous campaign against its gay citizens and pretty much rounded them up in death camps. Or the LGBTQ pay gap that suggests that gay men earn around 9% less than our straight counterparts globally. Or the silent epidemic, made worse because of economic inequality and a lack of resources, that means black gay men in the US face a 50-50 risk of catching HIV. There is not nearly enough attention in the mainstream media on the violence that’s inflicted about transgender people of colour, for example. I’ve had people chuck nasty homophobic language at me while walking down the street with my boyfriend.īut I can’t help shaking the feeling that all this focus on Eminem being made to apologise is kind of a distraction from the more pervasive and more insidious persecution that LGTBQ people go through all the time. The word ‘faggot’ has been used as a weapon against queer people for decades and continues to be used to attack sexual minorities.
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Tyler, the Creator’s feud with Eminem goes back to 2014 I’m all for holding high-profile cultural figures to account – although you could argue that Eminem isn’t exactly the most relevant artist nowadays – and I’m not criticising people who have spoken out against him. Now, while it’s good that Eminem is reflecting on his actions - although the fact that he didn’t ‘feel right’ with it, but did it nonetheless means his apology shouldn’t entirely absolve him - I reckon it’s important to not lose perspective here: the LGBTQ community has bigger fish to fry than worrying about a fading rapper. “Because in my quest to hurt him, I realise that I was hurting a lot of other people by saying it… It was one of the things that I kept going back to and going ‘I don’t feel right with this.’” “I think the word that I called him on that song was one of the things where I felt like this might be too far,” he said in an interview with Sway. It’s not that hard to respect that, so I just hope that people do.”īut now, in a rare comedown for the 45-year-old ‘Stan’ rapper, Eminem has apologised for his comments. “I just feel like some words are not meant for everyone, or for anyone. And gay pop singer Troye Sivan added to the criticism: “I don’t think there’s ever really a reason.