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and those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music
“Be brave enough to be bad at something new.”— Unknown
“Authentic love is when she makes you feel even more connected to yourself.”— lesbianespresso.tumblr.com
um here’s a thought
lesbians’ attraction to and desire toward other women is nothing like men’s attraction to and desire toward women. our love is different. our attraction is different. we have no obligation to “empathize” with men just because we’re all attracted to women. our experiences are unique to us and hold absolutely no resemblance to men’s when it comes to loving women
Gif credit: dietrichmarlene“Marlene Dietrich lights a cigarette, straightens her bow-tie, and adjusts her top hat. Clad in a black tailcoat, she strides onto a modest stage. She is met with jeers. While she waits for quiet, the camera lingers on her sculptural face, sharply drawn eyebrows, and ironic smile. She saunters over to the audience, leans on a railing, and begins to sing. After the song, she accepts champagne from a male admirer, then spies the man’s date. She looks the woman up and down; the woman titters nervously. Dietrich plucks a flower out of the woman’s hair, lifts it to her face and smells it, then leans down suddenly, takes the woman’s chin in her hand and kisses her firmly on the mouth. The audience laughs and applauds, the woman hides her face in pleased embarrassment, and Dietrich smiles, sniffs the flower, and flicks the brim of her hat. Dietrich turns towards the audience and raises her hat, accepting the applause.
This scene from Morocco (Paramount, 1930) is one of the most famous cross-dressing scenes in cinema history. Queer viewers have embraced it as an isolated and cherished expression of lesbian desire and sensual androgyny. Alongside Greta Garbo’s cross-dressed monarch in Queen Christina (MGM, 1933) and Katharine Hepburn’s cross-dressed con woman in Sylvia Scarlett (RKO, 1935), Dietrich’s Amy Jolly is often characterized as one of the lone early representations of women cross-dressing and expressing desire for women in American cinema.”
-From Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema, by Laura Horak
Do NOT Support ‘Adam’ When The Film Comes Out
I’ve talked about this before on this blog but this is the most disgustingly transphobic and lesbophobic narrative I’ve ever come across.
CWs: transphobia, homophobia, lesbophobia, corrective rape, voyeurism
The book Adam by Ariel Schrag is being turned into a movie which has been named as one of the most exciting LGBTQ films of the year. You should know before watching that the book is about a cis boy who pretends to be a trans man in order to persuade lesbians to sleep with him.
Yeah… you read that right.
Book plot summary:
- boy spies on his lesbian sister having sex
- boy decides to pretend to be a trans man (gross)
- i.e. pretends to have a vagina because he thinks lesbians will want him then (he literally wants to fuck lesbians because he watched his lesbian sister have sex wtf)
- he does get a lesbian to sleep with him, he straps his penis down using ace bandages and uses a strap on.
- all the actual trans dudes we meet identify as lesbians this basically implies that trans men are not real men (lesbians i.e. women)
- another time they have sex again only he uses his actual penis but tells her its a strap on. that’s literally rape, she didn’t consent to an actual penis.
- he confesses that he’s been lying to her this whole time but she doesn’t break up with him. she even says its okay cause she fantasised about him being “a real boy"
- that’s a direct quote. massive transphobia. huge. not to mention this is now the “lesbian is cured by dick trope” which is disgusting and that trope leads to real lesbians and bi women being raped to “fix” them.
- he leaves new york, they’re long distance. they get in an argument and he calls her a slut and a whore among other things and then she dumps him
- eventually they get back in touch and she has a new cis boyfriend so yep, she’s been “cured” woo she’s actually straight and he helped her realise that yay (massive sarcasm)
It is deeply deeply transphobic. To imply that our identities are just costumes for other people to put on erases who we are as people. More than that, to imply it is done to trick people into sex is a dangerous lie that literally gets us killed.
It is also deeply lesbophobic. To fuel this narrative that lesbians can be “fixed” by having sex with a man leads to real corrective rapes happening.
Here is a review of the book by a trans man. I have yet to find one by a lesbian but will edit this if I do.
This book gives out incredibly harmful notions about trans men and lesbians that are used to hurt them in real life. It’s so entrenched in the narrative that I don’t see how the film can possibly be any better.
I do not say any of this lightly. it’s very very rare for me to call out a piece of fiction or for me to decide that a story is unfixable. But this… there’s no excuse for the bigotry in this.
I’d like to tell people to boycott it but I can’t tell you what to do. So instead I’m going to ask that you share this because it being named as an exciting new LGBTQ film is going to make LGBTQ teens want to see it. And they should know beforehand how hurtful it could be. They should be able to arm themselves with that knowledge.
Don’t make queer kids see this film believing it will represent them only to be exposed to this hatred of their identities.
Please reblog.
I just… I just can’t with this world…
“The smell of her skin. Beyond imagination. Beyond sane thought. The fresh scent of rain, heaven’s tears, strongest around her neck, where I plant a kiss, unable to hold back. All hesitation vanishes, in the space of wilting flowers around us, where she shares not only her breath with me; her entire being, as wild and bewitching as they come. Her hair fans around my head, shielding our reunion from prying eyes. All I see, are the constellations in her own as we come apart. Be mine, she whispers, out of breath, filled with unwarranted hope.”— Yasmin Ali
“I don’t wanna be your friend I wanna kiss your lips I wanna kiss you until I lose my breath”— i wanna be your girlfriend - Girl In Red
“One day, you realise that there are some people you’ll never see again. At least, not in the same way.”— Iain Thomas; I Wrote This For You
