Oct 23
Pop Singer Grimes Wonders Why She's 'Way Less Gay' Post-Pregnancy and Twitter Responds
Kilian Melloy READ TIME: 2 MIN.
Could it be hormones? Testosterone levels? Or breaking up with Elon Musk? Canadian pop singer Grimes took to X to ask why she's feeling "way less gay" after bearing children, and Twitter had thoughts.
"I became way less gay after I was pregnant," the singer, who has three children with the new owner of Twitter (who renamed the platform X), posted, adding: "my ability to focus on reading and writing went way up, as did my general creativity, but my ability to focus on technical things went *way* down."
"Is this all explained by hormones?" Grimes asked the Twitterverse in an Oct. 22 post, UK newspaper the Daily Mail reported.
Added the pop star: "Well I'm kinda curious abt the theories. Was reading abt grey matter loss but improved neuroplasticity associated w pregnancy".
Responses came flooding in.
"wait wdym by being less gay??" one person queried.
"Just less interested in dating girls," Grimes replied.
Commented another: "No I think that's just from being in a heterosexual relationships with a bigot bae 😜"
Musk, an ardent Trump supporter who has been making recent appearances on behalf of the Republican presidential candidate, is famously anti-LGBTQ+, despite one of his own children being trans.
Replied Grimes: "I feel like that shud make me more gay tho".
"Ask a doctor," one person recommended; "X is not the best place, because you'll get 100 different theories :D"
Others on the platform were happy to hand out health advice of their own.
"yeah its the progesterone sister," one person declared, while another posited, "Increased progesterone, the true female hormone ✨".
"Your brain physically changes once you become a mother. Facts," yet another respondent asserted.
Another claimed that "women's brains undergo a massive reorganization during pregnancy."
"check your dhea and testo levels," one person advised.
Grimes replied to this, too, posting, "My testosterone is way down so I was gna go back to doc abt this".
We'd say that's probably a good idea. When you consult Twitter for medical advice, you truly never know what you're going to get.
Kilian Melloy serves as EDGE Media Network's Associate Arts Editor and Staff Contributor. His professional memberships include the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association, the Boston Online Film Critics Association, The Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association, and the Boston Theater Critics Association's Elliot Norton Awards Committee.
