Eryn Blackbriar (Mismo @ en el Otro Sitio)

Escritor, lingüista, melancólico profesional. Mister Oranje Disco Dancer.
Jason Todd is my kink. Misma @ en todo.

[Eryn Blackbriar (Mismo @ en el Otro Sitio) @enlagea]

@linodelrey_ Madre mía, no te había reconocido

[Eryn Blackbriar (Mismo @ en el Otro Sitio) @enlagea]

@MeganeMercury Llevamos mucho tiempo aquí me doy cuenta

[Eryn Blackbriar (Mismo @ en el Otro Sitio) @enlagea]

Recuerdo cuando era crío y me recomendaron "For a Lost Soldier" como una peli romántica gay muy bonita (no lo es, ni lo uno ni lo otro).

[Reid Southen @Rahll]

@DiscussingFilm Scott Belsky, the guy leading A24 Labs, formerly of Adobe, is on Peter Thiel's secret society list, just FYI.

[ً @lelioslestat]

wasnt gonna comment on this but implying louis’ turning wasn’t consensual would be the biggest disservice done to the story. the entire point is that lestat shows himself to louis in all his monstrosity and louis accepts him, that louis feels seen for the first time in his life

[realyuriyearners @realyuriyearns]

historic twitter day for trans women worldwide. hard to believe this was two years ago.

[Eryn Blackbriar (Mismo @ en el Otro Sitio) @enlagea]

Wonder Egg Priority (2021)

[AC @alejandrocdelg0]

se acabó, no soporto más esta calor, despiértenme en noviembre

[AC @alejandrocdelg0]

se acabó, no soporto más esta calor, despiértenme en noviembre

[Eryn Blackbriar (Mismo @ en el Otro Sitio) @enlagea]

@gooooreee Que acabe ya esto por favoor

[zhu @mittsushi]

GO ONION!!!!!!!!! #pathologic

[Eryn Blackbriar (Mismo @ en el Otro Sitio) @enlagea]

@metrxpolis Mal dia?

[Eryn Blackbriar (Mismo @ en el Otro Sitio) @enlagea]

Me obligan a llevar corbata.

[adelle k. @ Supercon F-09 @klimtsonian]

“The pact between man and image is sacred”… Literal chills down my spine.

[Eryn Blackbriar (Mismo @ en el Otro Sitio) @enlagea]

dalee

[Pubity @pubity]

Japan is set to roll out nationwide LGBTQIA+ education programs in schools, universities, and workplaces.

The goal is for more people in Japan to understand sexual orientation and gender identity outside of cisgender, heterosexual norms.

[Eryn Blackbriar (Mismo @ en el Otro Sitio) @enlagea]

Me obligan a llevar corbata.

[Eryn Blackbriar (Mismo @ en el Otro Sitio) @enlagea]

@AdRihannavy Oooh, pues mucha suerte, dónde vas?

[BNO News @BNONews]

BREAKING: American singer Oliver Tree, whose hits include “When I'm Down” and “Life Goes On,” killed in Rio helicopter crash

[Dove 🚬🥃 @DoveGraveyard]

A visitor

[Eshan @eshanbuilds]

The babydoll dress Olivia Rodrigo got criticized for has a name. It is called kinderwhore, and it was built in the early 1990s to make the exact argument she just made.

The term was coined in 1993 by music journalist Everett True, combining the German word for child with the English word for whore. The look is specific: childlike babydoll dresses, Peter Pan collars, Mary Janes, paired with smeared red lipstick and dark eye makeup. Innocence and adult sexuality forced into the same frame on purpose.

Kat Bjelland of Babes in Toyland and Courtney Love of Hole pioneered it. They shared an apartment and a wardrobe in the 1980s before either was famous. In a 1994 Rolling Stone interview, Love was explicit that the look was built to read as ironic rather than seductive.

The irony was the entire point. A grown woman dressed as a doll, screaming into a microphone, daring the audience to decide whether they were looking at a child or a threat. The discomfort that produced was the art. It made the viewer's own gaze visible to them.

Which is what makes the criticism of Rodrigo so clarifying. Her actual complaint is that a revealing stage outfit was called fine and a fully-covered babydoll dress was called inappropriate, and that the gap between those two reactions says something about who is doing the looking.

That gap is the thesis kinderwhore was built on three decades ago.

When Rodrigo says she felt like Kathleen Hanna or Courtney Love, she is not reaching for a vague aesthetic. Hanna led the riot grrrl movement and Love built the look beside it, and both spent the early 1990s being told the same things Rodrigo is being told now, by people who thought they were delivering a fresh objection.

The replies calling the dress inappropriate think they are critiquing the aesthetic. They are completing it.