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It’s time to cancel the Village People

This mono-gendered depiction of the local proletariat is laughably outdated

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Chadwick Moore
Apr 21, 2021
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Discerning cancellation connoisseurs so far have overlooked one of the most problematic boy bands of the 20th century — and it’s time to change that. The American disco group the Village People features a cast of empenised individuals donning costumes that glorify toxically masculine tropes of the time: a police officer, a cowboy, a construction worker,…

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