Is James Arthur Burning His Bridges?

When you live in the media spotlight you have to be aware of everything you say and do. If you slip up there's a good chance the public will know eventually. It's a tough life to live but you learn to work around it. You can put on a smile and try to pull a Mother Theresa act to persuade people to buy into the idea that you're a good person. There are some, however, that just don't even bother. Ex X Factor contestant James Arthur seems to be trying to offend as many people as possible at present, currently he's been aiming shots at former friend and openly gay  ex X Factor contestant Lucy Spraggan.

Arthur was recently criticised for using the homophobic slur "you fucking queer" in a derogatory manner in a diss song of his. When Spraggan took to Twitter to address this casual use of pejorative, homophobic language Arthur attacked back.  Apparently Arthur sent several text messages to Spraggan.

See a link to the tweet from Lucy Spraggan here, follow for the photo attachment:

"Is it coz you're a gay rights activist!" Actually, Yes. Well done @JamesArthur23, you did it again. @stonewalluk pic.twitter.com/zJoGECFwzR
— Lucy Spraggan (@lspraggan) November 20, 2013

Arthur says "Lucy what are you playing at having digs at me? Is it coz you're a gay rights activist you had to say something as extreme as "people kill themselves every day over words like queer" are you for real?"
He says "gay rights activist" like it's a bad thing. Also studies have shown that, suicide rates aside, a startling amount of queer youth have self harmed or contemplated suicide at some point and are diagnosed with depression and anxiety disorders. As a straight male it's often easy to write off queer issues if you've no experience in that area but to belittle it seems rather dismissive. Arthur then apparently went on to taunt Lucy for having lower record sales than himself. You shouldn't expect to say something homophobic, something that will marginalise and offend a huge group of people, and then get upset when you're called out on it.

I think Arthur needs to remember that as a celebrity he is very visible. If you're going to be homophobic or say derogatory things people will call you out on it.

Well, whatever. I have Lucy Spraggan in my iTunes library and absolutely no James Arthur.