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Everyone gets “The 90s” look wrong so let’s fix it

waffled0g:

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If you weren’t here for part one, lemme sum it up real fast:

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Okay, all up to speed? We’re being served 80s throwback stuff with the serial numbers scratched off, re-labeled as yo totally 90s. What we’ve got now isn’t completely wrong, but I’m telling you, there’s so much gold left unmined.

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As we saw in part one with Memphis Milano, these things get messy. Trends don’t start and end neatly every ten years. The first wave of 90s throwback attempts focused on the early part of the decade, and nobody since really pushed to represent the other seven years. Well, if you really wanna do something, I guess you gotta do it yourself.

I have suggestions. Get your flannel ready, we’ve got a lot of ground to cover.

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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.”

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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.

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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.

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ayeforscotland:

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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!

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