July 2011
98 posts
Little Angry Battery: A Note About Cissexism... →
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THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT! Please take 30 seconds out of your day to read this and share this. Also go follow manybothans and tell her how hot and smart she is. i know you all must be green with envy that I get to have her in my life ALLLLL the time. <3
I had a really great pride this year, but I was also troubled by comments I heard over the last week from a lot of people in both the mainstream and radical queer communities. I want to say a few things about cissexism, specifically towards trans women and other MTF spectrum folks.
1) Gay sex does not require genital symmetry.
Most people in the community realize that not all women have the same sex organs, but it seems that a lot of people have a harder time making the leap to realize that you can have super gay sex with someone who has different junk than you. If you think otherwise, you are probably alienating people in your community, not to mention potentially missing out on some hot queer sex!
2) Gay sex does not mean non-potentially-reproductive sex (see point #1).
A lot of people like to claim the contrary… things like, “dykes never have to worry about getting pregnant” and other such nonsense. Claiming that all gay sex is non-reproductive erases the experiences of a lot of trans people and their lovers, and also makes it harder to talk about birth control and safer sex.
3) Don’t call different types of genitals disgusting.
This seems to be a disturbingly common trend in the queer community and has come up several times this week. A lot of people have a hard enough time trying to feel good and confident in their bodies - and welcome in their queer community - without having to hear how disgusting other people think their junk is. This goes for all aspects of peoples’ bodies.
Basically, we all need to have a little sit down and think about the different body/gender combinations that exist in our community and how the things we say and do affect the people around us!
An important list. One more note to add: I’m trying really hard to break my habit of referring to particular kinds of genitals as “man parts” or “lady parts.”
Do I Love You Because You're Beautiful?
Lynne Winterseller  Â
The “Until I Have Something Better to Do Musical Theater Share-a-thon”, Day 3.
“Do I Love You Because You’re Beautiful” performed by Lynne Wintersteller in the 1993 review A GRAND NIGHT FOR SINGING. It’s a lovely arrangement and a lovely performance by the always enjoyable—and she be in more things—Lynne Wintersteller. A few years ago a friend of mine was cast as Clara in a stock production of LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA opposite Wintersteller. I can’t even begin to imagine…
I had a friend in college who was the BIGGEST Lynne Wintersteller fan. I’m not sure how much competition there was for this title.
Incidentally
Musical theater students looking to expand their audition book could do much worse than seeking out the sheet music for the songs I’ve been sharing on this blog (with some notable exceptions). I am fairly certain you are more likely to stand out from the pack with The World Must Be Bigger Than an Avenue or That Ain’t Hay, That’s The U.S.A. than you would with something written in the last ten to fifteen years.
The World Must Be Bigger Than An Avenue
Barbara Cook
I never paid much attention to the musical Irene until I fell in love with Barbara Cook’s recording of this song, added to the 1970s revival of the show by Cook’s longtime music director, Wally Harper.
Take note, writers of musical theater: “I Want” songs don’t have to be whiny or plaintive.
The number of notes any one of my posts gets
is inversely proportionate to how excited I am about that post’s content.
This is true both here and on Fuck Yeah Stephen Sondheim.
