epicene-street-light:

i rly have conflicted feelings towards jean genet bc on the one hand he was openly gay and wrote about the drag scene before anyone else did (in the french literary scene – i mean that he was the first one to reach the mainstream opinion) – and like… he gets it, exposes the mechanisms of misogyny and gender basically but…….. on the other hand hes so fucking misogynistic like… why do you have to justify your gayness by shitting on women………. why are you so complacent towards morally corrupt and oppressive masculinity (i.e nazism, fascism in general)……….. like dude. you get it. we’re in this together. instead of securing gender to sound ~ transgressive ~ lets burn it down!!!! you get it!!!! why won’t you help your lesbian siblings & women suffering from the same kind of oppression!!!!!!!! ugh

me on tumblr: nuance is key when reading jean genet and although interesting, his violent misogyny and fascination for fascism must be addressed

me irl when a cishet calls him an “heterophobe”: if you ever only say the slightest bad thing about my boy jean im gonna kill you on the spot