I know we touch on this fairly often but we really need to be emphasizing to these young LGBTs how important getting out there and mingling in the community is because we end up with 14 year-olds telling people that Drag is transphobic and twink and bear are slurs
okay but most modern drag is transphobic lmao?
Explain.
im obviously not talking about actual trans women in drag but the cis gay guys who do it because ‘haha its funny to be a woman in a dress’ and thats the most fuckin common one that ive seen talked about and broadcasted. Ive literally sat through courses in college where someone talks about why drag is cool because its “funny”.
Mmm like I respect what you’re saying for sure and I get your discomfort but I think it’s dismissive to say that the only reason cis gay men would do drag is for attention/laughs. Drag has historically been a huge part of gender expression for men in the LGBT community and I think it’s something of a disservice to those men to say that the majority of them are doing something rooted in transphobia when gay men being gender nonconforming is actually something that puts them at considerable risk
Hot take: nearly all drag is motivated by a sincere desire to experiment with gender expression or even express deep gender feelings, but because admitting to have this desire is ridiculously unsafe or at least socially costly for most people, they maintain the field of “haha, it’s just a joke, relax, bro” for plausible deniability. Sometimes this deniability even extends to themselves, because accepting one’s own gender feelings can be terrifying. This would also explain the existence of contexts where drag is “forced” upon people, such as in fraternity initiation traditions: wishing to get in a context where they could say “on no, I was forced to dress like this, I guess I have no choice but to accept and roll with it” seems to be extremely common among trans and GNC people who aren’t really out to themselves.
In the olden days, if footage was not used in a film, it was either destroyed or erased so they could reuse the reel, because it was cheaper than storing unused film.
Google the BBC’s lost archives to find out more.
(Psst…film footage could not be erased & re-used like videotape, as with the BBC’s lost programs… However, it did cost money to “print” a filmed shot, i.e. get the negative developed and printed as a positive, especially with the sound added/synced. So their existence is indeed a big deal!)
Anyway, if you enjoy these, there are more! You can find Warner Bros. blooper reels from 1936-1942 and 1946-47, at the Internet Archive, here: https://archive.org/details/Breakdowns_Blowups_1936-1947. They weren’t made for the public; they were screened at a yearly dinner for cast and crew.
This law, like any other absurdly restrictive law, could not and would not be enforced as written. The bad news was, it would be enforced in other ways, selective and unpredictable. Impossible and implausible laws serve as signals rather than rules, especially in a society like Russia, which has been conditioned to be supremely sensitive to signals from up top. Soviet-era laws banned so many things — for example, the resale of goods, making too much money, not making any money, spending the night away from one’s official residence — that most people were in breach of the law most of the time. To know how to act, or to create the illusion of knowing, citizens looked for subtle, between-the-lines messages from the top.
Parents were given language to use with children to discuss Daniels’ transition, stressing it is important to accept everyone as they are and to know that Daniels is “the same caring person.”
“I just explained Principal Daniels looks like a boy, but inside feels like a girl,” one mother told her children, “and they’ll probably notice some changes when they see him.”
Parents WBZ-TV talked to were supportive.
“I don’t think it’s a big deal, he has lot of courage for coming out and I hope he’s the principal for many years to come and I hope people are nice to him,” one father said. “He’s a nice guy, I’m sure he’ll be a nice woman.”
(NB: The Principal says people can use he, she, or they pronouns.)
In 2013 in the UK, a transgender teacher called Lucy Meadows killed herself after her existence resulted in a large amount of national media attention. She had been teaching at the school under the name of Nathan, but chose to return at the end of summer one year as an openly transgender teacher. The school sent parents a letter explaining this, and one parent, claiming his child was confused, started a petition and started talking directly to the media. Eventually, she had a press pack outside her door every day, as did the parents of her ex wife.
The culmination of this was the Daily Mail columnist Richard Littlejohn writing an opinion piece in which he accused her of “putting his (sic) own selfish needs ahead of the wellbeing of the children”.
I’m putting this here because it’s been five years since she died. I’ve thought about her for five years. Things almost certainly won’t be easy for this teacher at all, but just being able to come out like this and have parents be supportive is a really huge difference to how it was for Lucy, and it’s slightly staggering to realize how much things have changed in such a short time.
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