by
Kyle Nonneman
ON
THE TRANSGENDER ISSUES IN THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA:
"MY
MOTTO: FUCK HOPE"-GEORGE CARLIN
in
last months playboy, Caroline Cossey is interviewed again She brings
up an interesting point :nobody ever bothered to ask jenner if she's
turned on sexually by wearing womens clothing.... those who dont
understand the difference, throw out there three piece suits, and
realize they cant get it back and end up hanging it up....
I
watched the series premier of the reality tv show they did on jenner
postop,
she
meets with a bunch of established veterans of the trans community.
They
call her out for being a privileged celebrity , that never had to
come up through the drag scene or do sex work to get by, and point
out that a dilettante tourist and neophyte that didn't deal with all
the struggles of coming out , doesn’t have the experience necessary
to accurately be a public spokesperson for the movement.
they
say she acts like a giddy teenager, and acts as if its all about
makeup and hair, so they take jenner to a Human resources center in
san francisco, to burst her privileged bubble you can see alot of
animosity and resentment expressed towards jenner by the ex sex
workers and former drag queens, that haven't had a silver spoon in
there mouths every step of the way. Really if you think about it,
this is probable why alot of the public is so accepting of Jenner,
she's post op , but shes not a veteran of the movement, she wasn't
standing in the kickline at stonewall, jenner is essentially like
those fashionable uncle tom house slaves closet racists used for show
to put on a front of liberal open mindedness. The Movement needs more
Nat Turners and less Uncle Toms....
Charles
Romalotti said that,"Once you popularize a cartoon version of
something,the cartoon version and the real thing become
indistinguishable in the eyes of the masses, which serves to
discredit the real thing as a whole".Despite the presence of
real activists on the jenner show, its still at its core just a
tabloid freakshow that puts on a mask made of philanthropic altruism
to hide the stench of sensationalist exploitation. G.L.A.D.D.
accepting Jenner as a spokesperson for there movement, is as much of
a mistake as when the battered womens movement made a spokesperson
out of Hedda Nussenbaum, the coke fiend baby killer.
Whats
next ? A golliwog puppet speaking for the nation of islam? I'm sure
the general public would approve of that. Just be your fucking self
and fuck what anybody else thinks. that's the problem with m.r.r. its
petty concern over trivial scene politics undermined its music
coverage, and instead of just discussing cool new records, and fun
interesting sounds, its all sophomoric debate club prattle from punks
trying to climb out of the mosh pit and scale the ivory tower.
fuck
politics and all the discussions of it all. more people need to read
Marco Vassi's work:
"WE
WALK AROUND WITH A GENDER FOR A GOOD DEAL OF THE TIME WHEN WE DONT
NEED TO USE IT. IF YOUR NOT ACTUALLY INVOLVED IN FUCKING,BEING MALE
OR FEMALE IS LARGELY INCIDENTAL . THAT OUR SOCIETY IS BIFURCATED
ALONG THE MALE/FEMALE LINE IS OF COURSE ONE OF THE ROUSING CRIES OF
FEMALE LIB AND GAY LIB AND ALOT OF POLITICAL MOVEMENTS. THAT IS, WHY
DO WE BE MEN AND WOMEN WHEN WE'RE NOT ENGAGED IN THE MEN /WOMEN'S
BUISNESS?"-MARCO VASSI
it
also brings to mind the perpetual victim stance walking wounded,
martyrdom of survivors who build there identity around there struggle
and survival and war stories of there sad past, and then they never
manage to move beyond that and be a whole person. like alcoholics
anonymous meeting lifers.But then again, were always constantly at
war with the world. Bob Black wrote a classic piece on this called
'Why I hate Survivors"Ed gein if you study that case, was a
trannie, told by his christian mother he was sick and evil, going to
burn in hell, all the fire and brimstone preaching meshed with his
innner shame and he became a monster . there wasn't any way to come
out and get support in the backwoods of wisconsin in the late
1940s/50s.
they
simplify what he did. he wanted to be a woman so bad, and surgery
wasn't available at that time and there was no drag scene. so he wore
vests and pants made out of lady parts, and ingested there flesh ,
all in a deranged attempt to make himself into a woman. gein's case
inspired norman bates in psycho and leatherface in texas chainsaw
massacre. countless hordes of horror films were inspired and released
as a result of those two movies. then think about all the nightmares
and shocks caused by those movies.... as well as there effect on
mainstream pop culture...
The
ignorance of christianity , and the intolerant fears of the servants
of righteousness create monsters.....
-end
part 4
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