From the film: Priscilla, Queen of the DesertTICK’S APPARTMENT.Tick is demonstrating a gaudy arrangement of facialproducts to a potential customer.Tick: Wo-man is a unique range of specialty facialproducts designed for the more…….heavy duty woman in all of us. Now this week…
Good Morning
Ah…and how are you this Wednesday, the first Wednesday in June?
That image up top is from a few scenes in the movie Priscilla, Queen of the desert. It is the special beauty products sold by the character “Tick” or “Mitzi” aka Hugo Weaving, you can see a quick clip of a scene here:
Raucous laughter from the crowd in the bar.
38. LATER IN THE BAR. All are very drunk and Mitzi is sharing her expertise on her facial products
MITZI: Now what could be more soothing than coming home after a hard day down the mine to the wo-man in us all. Now don’t send any money..
Why bring this image and scene up? Well…I don’t know. Priscilla is in my top 5 favorite shows? Maybe…
For some reason as I was organizing the links I have for you today, that image of Mitzi on the package of Wo-Man Beauty Products kept coming to my mind.
I think for many reasons, but especially for one of the lines in the film. There is a point to all this…just follow me here.
The scene I am talking about is after this just watch this so it will set you up. The character Felicia has been beaten up by the idiot bigots in town… :
BOB: get off him you mongrel! He was joking OK? Now you leave the bugger alone.
FRANK: get out of there Bob!!!!!
BOB: Cut it out Frank.
FRANK: get the fuck out of the way, Bob, or you’ll be next
BOB: Frank!
FRANK: Get out of there!!!!!!!!!
BERNADETTE: Oh stop flexing your muscles you big fucking pile of budgie turd! I’m sure your mates would be much more impressed if you just went back to the pub and fucked a couple of pigs on the bar.
BOB: Bernadette please.
FRANK: bernadette? Well, I’ll be darned! The whole bloody circus is in town. I suppose you want a fuck too? Come on Bernadette. Come on and fuck me. That’s it. Come on. Come on and fuck me. Come on Fuck me.
Bernadette suddenly knees Frank in the balls and frank falls to the ground in agony.
BERNADETTE: There, now you’re fucked.
Now this is the part I am talking about…
105. HOTEL ROOM
TICK: You stupid bloody idiot. Drugs for Christ’s sake. Well three cheers for you. I hope you’re bloody well happy now. Stupid bloody fuck witt!
Adam begins to cry and Bernadette sidles over to him.
BERNADETTE: It’s funny. We all sit around mindlessly slagging off that vile stink-hole of a city. But in it’s strange way it looks after us. I don’t know if that ugly wall of suburbia has been put up to stop them getting in or us getting out. Come on. Don’t let it drag you down. Let it toughen you up. I can only fight because I’ve learnt to. being a man one day and a woman the next is not an easy thing to do.
That is what I am talking about. That last part that I emphasized for you. For Caitlyn Jenner, not only is this “not going to be an easy thing to do” she is doing it in front of an audience, and she has admitted that she is making money on her transition as well. This month Caitlyn has a cover on Vanity Fair, photography by Annie Leibovitz. You must have seen it by now.
It looks photo-shopped, like they airbrushed the fuckarama out of her…but damn, she looks good, fantastic! As TLO says, a bit like Jessica Lange.
Now for a few links on the issue, the article is supposed to be 22 pages long, the magazine hits newsstands in a couple of days.
Vanity Fair’s 22-page cover story features stunning Annie Leibovitz photos of Caitlyn Jenner, formerly known as Bruce, along with revealing new details. Here’s a preview of the story.
Speaking publicly for the first time since completing gender transition, Caitlyn Jenner compares her emotional two-day photo shoot with Annie Leibovitz for the July cover of Vanity Fair to winning the gold medal for the decathlon at the 1976 Olympics. She tells Pulitzer Prize–winning V.F. contributing editor and author ofFriday Night Lights Buzz Bissinger, “That was a good day, but the last couple of days were better. . . . This shoot was about my life and who I am as a person. It’s not about the fanfare, it’s not about people cheering in the stadium, it’s not about going down the street and everybody giving you ‘that a boy, Bruce,’ pat on the back, O.K. This is about your life.”
Jenner tells Bissinger about how she suffered a panic attack the day after undergoing 10-hour facial-feminization surgery on March 15—a procedure she believed would take 5 hours. (Bissinger reveals that Jenner has not had genital surgery.) She recalls thinking, “What did I just do? What did I just do to myself?” A counselor from the Los Angeles Gender Center came to the house so Jenner could talk to a professional, and assured her that such reactions were often induced by pain medication, and that second-guessing was human and temporary.
You can read the rest of the preview at the link. The rest of the pictures in the thread are from the photo shoot.
Annie Leibovitz photograph of Caitlyn Jenner slated for the July cover of Vanity Fair — prime magazine real estate — was revealed Monday. The trumpeted publicity still is the latest and, in some ways, most dramatic step in the difficult gender transition of former Olympic decathlon gold medalist Bruce Jenner.
For wardrobe, Betty Grable’s ’40s bathing suit is crossed with Madonna’s white-satin ’90s bustier. Toss in the gold-ground setting from a Byzantine icon that Andy Warhol chose for his silk-screen version of Marilyn Monroe’s famous publicity still from the 1953 Hollywood potboiler “Niagara.”
Add a glamorous, cascading hairstyle lifted from somewhere between Rita Hayworth’s smoking Gilda and Bette Davis’ fearsome Margo Channing. And — voila! — a pinup for the age of Pinterest.
For all the advance buildup, the picture feels flat — a pedestrian celebrity pastiche of rather tired visual cliches. That’s too bad. Jenner’s courage in taking control of the public process of coming out as transgender is bold, and this will be the most widely seen initial image.
In recent years, the LGBT civil rights movement has been making huge strides. It has taken decades, but transgender men and women are now an essential part of the necessary equality mix. Jenner, by effectively stage-managing her transition, has largely avoided what could have been a cruel and ugly scenario.
Yet the Vanity Fair photograph seems a missed opportunity — a picture from the past rather than the present. Maybe that’s because all its conventional, glamour-girl signals weigh down the lively fluidity swirling at the center of gender identity.
Well, it is airbrushed like a picture that is on the cover of Vogue or Vanity Fair…but if I was waiting so many years to be the “real me” then I sure as hell would want to go all out and take advantage of what was available to me. Yeah, it is definitely a typical Annie Leibovitz photo shoot, but she does take a pretty picture.
Caitlyn Jenner opened up about her split from ex-wife Kris Jenner in her Vanity Fair profile, revealing their marriage fell apart because of mistreatment and not gender issues.
Caitlyn and Kris Jenner married in 1991 and were together 16 years before their home life morphed into a pop-culture phenomenon with the 2007 premiere of “Keeping Up with the Kardashians.” As Kris Jenner became more financially independent because of the show’s success, Caitlyn Jenner said, things changed.
“The relationship was different. I think in a lot of ways she became less tolerant of me. Then I’d get upset and the whole relationship kind of fizzled,” Caitlyn Jenner told Buzz Bissinger for Vanity Fair, per Us Weekly. “A lot of times she wasn’t very nice. People would see how I got mistreated. She controlled the money … all that kind of stuff.”
Adding: “Twenty percent was gender and 80 percent was the way I was treated.”
However, the famous momager told Bissinger that it was her ex’s social anxiety that took a toll: “He was married to me and he wasn’t who he wanted to be so he was miserable … All I was doing was working very hard for my family so that we could all have a wonderful future, and he was pissed off. At the end of my relationship with Bruce he definitely had a lot of social anxiety … That was one of the reasons we were in a struggle at the end. We fought a lot because we would go out together and before we got to the end of the block we were in a fight because he started saying, ‘When can we go home?’”
“She said, ‘I didn’t know … I had no idea about the extent of his gender issues, really the severity,'” he said during a “Today” show appearance Tuesday. “I’ve got to say, I think she’s right. I think Bruce downplayed it [as] ‘It was a phase of my life, it’s over.’ It wasn’t over, and I think Kris had a sense that whatever happened in the past I can fix it.”
20% gender? Okay. I can’t say anything without reading the entire piece.
Anyway, back to that quote from the film Priscilla, about being a man one day and a woman the next…, lets look at the reverse…I thought this was an interesting read:
Quite a bit changed for me over the first couple of years I started testosterone.
My health and mental wellbeing improved, my happy button grew over an inch in length, my natural musk became so fragrant that now I gross even myself out if I don’t shower pretty much every day (no deodorant can contain this beast).
So many awesome, big-deal body changes and mind improvements flourished.
Then there were the smaller, odder things: I finally gained an appreciation for peanut butter and chocolate, my favorite color went from blue to green, my most hated school subject suddenly became a favored pastime.
All sorts of things, from the big to the small, altered themselves.
I was indeed exactly the same person as I’d always been, just the 2.0 version.
In the long run, I don’t always know which things were an actual, physical reaction to the T, which were a result of getting out of a toxic environment, and which were simply my tastes naturally changing as I put on a few years.
But just as fascinating as it was to witness my mental and physical changes, it was just as equal of an adjustment to comprehend how other people were responding to me.
In short, I was being treated better by everyday America because people were reading me as a young, white, straight (?!) male. And I recognized many new privileges that came my way because of it.
Emphasis not mine, btw….
For the record, this isn’t an article meant for transphobic people to share around and say, “See?! See?! Trans guys are totally reaping all the benefits of patriarchy, and WE MUST HATE THEM!”
If you think this is true, you’re not paying attention. And clearly haven’t educated yourself appropriately on trans issues. Or patriarchal issues. Or feminist issues. Or really any issue that has to do with inequality based upon this toxic culture of ours.
Rather, this article is simply meant to focus on male privilege at large, primarily owned by cis men who think they’re bestowing it only upon other cis men.
Just go and read the entire thing, I think that you will find some of the examples enlightening.
1. I’m Suddenly Funny
I’ve always been dry, sarcastic, and satirical with my humor.
In Ye Olden Times, I was considered unfunny at best – and a bitch at worst.
Now that I’m a short white guy, people automatically peg me for a comedian and laugh at the bulk of my mouth zings.
But nothing has changed. I’ve even recycled some of my old material that people didn’t find funny before just to make sure.
2. Yet I’m Still Taken (More) Seriously
I’m still amazed at the amount of people that now immediately shut their mouths the second I open mine.
Believe me, my ideas haven’t improved at all.
I’ve even tried to derail serious conversations with ludicrous stuff just to see what would happen – and I’d still be regarded highly.
3. I Rarely Get Interrupted
I used to be interrupted so often while presenting as a woman that I in turn started to talk over people as a form of conversational survival.
Unfortunately, because it became so ingrained in me, I still find myself doing it from time to time even though it’s rarely necessary anymore.
I think after you read that article, you need to share it….
In fifth grade, I won the school courtesy prize. In other words, I won an award for being polite. My brother, on the other hand, was considered the class comedian. We were very typically socialized as a “young lady” and a “boy being a boy.” Globally, childhood politeness lessons are gender asymmetrical. We socialize girls to take turns, listen more carefully, not curse and resist interrupting in ways we do not expect boys to. Put another way, we generally teach girls subservient habits and boys to exercise dominance.
I routinely find myself in mixed-gender environments (life) where men interrupt me. Now that I’ve decided to try and keep track, just out of curiosity, it’s quite amazing how often it happens. It’s particularly pronounced when other men are around.
“Tampax Compak has a smooth plastic applicator that is half the length of a usual Tampax Cardboard applicator, making it twice as discreet to carry.”
“New! Neat! Discreet!” proclaims an 80s-tastic ad for Playtex Portables.
“The original o.b. tampon … was revolutionary in the world of tampons and played to women’s need for discreet yet reliable protection.”
Tampax Compak is apparently so discreet, according to one old commercial, that a teacher mistakes it for a piece of candy, and asks his student to bring it to the front of the class when he catches her passing it to a friend.
You would think once he held it and felt the hard plastic applicator within the wrapper he would figure it out—tampons and candy bars don’t really have similar tactile sensations. But no. “I hope you brought enough for everyone,” he says, sternly.
“Enough for the girls,” the girl replies, laughing. All the boys in the class look around, confused. This is beyond their simple understanding.
Hey, lets add this to the list of male privilege….not having to hide something that is a necessity of your sex, the shame of having to carry a tampon.
In some sense, they can be forgiven. It’s entirely possible these wide-eyed naïfs have never seen a tampon in the wild, given the sometimes painstaking efforts women make to conceal them (the same efforts that products like Tampax Compak are created to facilitate). You can just palm it, or there’s the ole tampon-up-the-sleeve trick. In sleeveless weather, one can tuck it under the bra strap, or in the waistband. Anywhere tuckable, really. Or just bring your whole purse to the bathroom.My friend Mallory, a project manager for a digital agency in Nashville, used some creative strategies to carry tampons at her old job. Her office was situated at the end of a long hallway, meaning she had to walk past everyone else to get to the bathroom.
“I would make sure I took care of things in the morning and then always have to remember to take my purse with me to lunch,” she says. “And then one day I was in a bind, I had already gotten up to get coffee and then get water and then I came back to my desk and I realized I hadn’t changed my tampon. It feels too awkward to get up from my desk in the middle of the day and walk out with my purse and then walk back in five minutes later. Then I look at my coffee mug, it was empty. So I stuck a tampon in an empty travel coffee mug and walked to the bathroom. And that was my plan.”
Nadine Ajaka / The Atlantic
Mallory also mentioned a friend of hers with an even sneakier approach—this person apparently hides tampons in the bathroom stalls at her office in the morning, and just hopes they’re still there when she returns.
Why go to all that trouble?
Secrecy is a key element of the modern period—the existence of tampons and pads in the first place allows women to “pass as non-bleeders,” as Sharra Vostral puts it in her book Under Wraps: A History of Menstrual Hygiene Technology.Barring any mishaps, the blood is only visible behind closed doors. Women’s public bathrooms have special trashcans in the stalls so feminine products can be disposed of neatly and privately.
The scheme laid out in the indictment is a complex web of ties between FIFA officials and sports-marketing companies, involving bribes paid in exchange for media rights to soccer tournaments.
The payoffs were allegedly made through envelopes of cash, checks, and, especially, a massive number of bank transfers.
The indictment names 26 banks, which range from exclusive Swiss private banks and Caribbean-chartered offshore entities to major American lenders like Citigroup and JPMorgan Chase, and even one community bank: the $7.6 billion-asset United Community Bank in Blairsville, Ga., where one of the defendants allegedly transferred cash to pay a swimming-pool contractor.
Caitlyn Jenner on the Cover of Vanity Fair | Vanity Fair
You can read the rest of the preview at the link. The rest of the pictures in the thread are from the photo shoot.
Well, it is airbrushed like a picture that is on the cover of Vogue or Vanity Fair…but if I was waiting so many years to be the “real me” then I sure as hell would want to go all out and take advantage of what was available to me. Yeah, it is definitely a typical Annie Leibovitz photo shoot, but she does take a pretty picture.
Emphasis not mine, btw….
This is a good one. Finish it up at the link.
Hey, lets add this to the list of male privilege….not having to hide something that is a necessity of your sex, the shame of having to carry a tampon.
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