Anyone interested in the history of the queer use of “cunt” should check out Kevin Aviance’s 1996 queer club anthem “Cunty” which was sampled by Beyoncé in “Pure/Honey.”
Please stop using derivatives of “cunt” to describe the way women look, it’s unbelievably sexist. It’s not cutesie or hip, it’s just degrading. Not all modern language is good language. Even if you want to use it for yourself, you can’t reclaim something hurtful for someone else, and at the end of the day you’re talking about strangers.
Oh, darling, that’s TERF talk. Literally.
Serving Charisma, Uniqueness, Nerve, and Talent isn’t just a cute new phrase, it’s a phrase that’s been used the drag and transfeminine community for decades. To claim it’s sexist and degrading it to operate under the TERF assumption that transfeminine people don’t possess real femininity and don’t experience real misogyny. If I’m guilty of anything when I use it, it’s cultural appropriation.
Cunt isn’t just about hyper-femininity, it’s about an attitude that demands attention. If it were just about looks and being feminine, Kate Middleton would be the cunt queen of the century, and the only truly cunty thing she’s ever done is disappear off the face of the earth.
Learn some queer history. Experience some queer culture. You’ll enjoy it, I promise.
Funny what a little bit of Holocaust denialism will get you trending with.
Also, worth noting that calling it “Holocaust denialism,” as Aye and Alejandra Carabello (and myself) have, is not hyperbole.
JK Rowling is denying that trans people were targetted by the Nazis, and promoting the tweets of known anti-trans activists screeching that any insistence that we were is “the LGBTQ+ lobby” revising history. That is, by a 2022 ruling on a case regarding similar tweets by the Regional Court of Cologne, (translation) “a denial of Nazi crimes.”
She is, by German court precedent, quite literally engaging in an element of Holocaust denial.
In case anyone is unfamiliar with the Nazis’ destruction of both gay and trans culture in Germany, Germany had a sympathetic gay and trans health clinic in the early 1900s. The Nazis destroyed it and burned literature studying homosexuality, gender noncomformity, and what we now understand to be transgenderness or transexuality. This took place only 3 months after Hitler came into power.
In addition to homosexuality, crossdressing was illegal under the Hitler regime even though trans people had (albeit limited) rights prior to his rise to power. And before anyone says it, the trans holocaust victims we talk about weren’t misidentified crossdressers, drag artists, or gender-nonconforming people. One trans woman, Liddy Barcroff, died in a concentration camp for her “crossdressing” after telling arresting police “my sense of my sex is fully and completely that of a woman.” The queer community, all of us, suffered huge losses both in individuals and in education and understanding during the Holocaust. Denying any part of that is offensive and dangerous.
It’s also important to add that the founder of that institute was Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, who was a gay Jew. This allowed Nazis to claim that Jews were promoting homosexuality to “destroy the family” and weaken the white race.
You know, pretty much exactly what Republicans are saying now, just in dogwhistles.
hey my history of drag post becomes incredibly relevant!
(via froody)
The fun thing about chemises is they’re pretty basic and they tend to stay pretty much the same throughout history, until something major comes along to change everything.
Chemise
1830s
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
we women had some form of shift/chemise/combinations (think a onesie with an open crotch seam- so named because it ~combines~ chemise and drawers) for like. over 1000 years. it’s believed to have developed in Europe sometime during the early Middle Ages
western feminine clothing has been chemiseless for a FRACTION of the time chemises existed. roughly 100 years, although one could argue that slips of the 1930s-60s count as well despite them doing precious little to protect one’s clothing from sweat and odor. one of the main functions of a chemise
that’s so incredibly weird to me
Well, the washing machine pretty much made protective clothing unnecessary
About poor things, can I just add: for a movie supposedly so keen to show how oblivious its protagonist is about social norms & expectations imposed on women, there sure was an absence of body hair. Particularly for a semi-period piece.
LOL yes I thought the same thing. She has the mind of a toddler but she makes sure to wax her legs & pits.
Shift
1835
The Victoria & Albert Museum
“This ensemble illustrates the items of underwear that women wore in the 1830s. The shift had been an essential element of underwear for centuries and remained so in the 19th century. At that time it was more politely referred to by its French name, chemise. When the sheer fabrics and rather clinging styles of Neo-classical dress became fashionable in the 1790s, drawers were introduced into the female wardrobe for the sake of modesty. They continued to be worn when 19th century dresses evolved into more substantial styles. The corset is lightly boned and reinforced with cording. There is a long narrow pocket in the front for the busk, a wide piece of wood or ivory, which kept the corset stiff and flat in front.”