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I wonder when exactly it was that Star Trek stopped being perceived as light, fluffy, not-really-legitimate sci fi that ~housewives~ liked and started being seen as serious nerd business that girls had to keep their gross cooties off.
Also when did the Beatles start to be remembered as rock legends rather than a silly boy band teenaged girls liked?
When men decided they liked them.
this is seriously exactly how it happened. Women were actually the first rock and roll ‘critics’ because they would write in to women’s papers and magazines to share and discuss what their kids were listening to when men still thought it was trashy teeny bopper music. once it became a lucrative, mainstream genre men shoved women out of the space. Men also tend to be gatekeepers once they move into formerly female spaces – early trek fandom was incredibly open and inclusive; women would set up fan get togethers in their own houses to discuss the show or invite the actors to visit before conventions became a thing, and then were huge in organizing the first conventions – but now the stereotype of a trekkie is a nerdy white dude who scoffs derisively at casual fans and newbies with his encyclopedic and pedantic knowledge of trek
I propose we call this “mentrification”
YES
La mélancolie, effet d’une séparation subie par l’âme, est guérie par l’ironie, qui est distance et renversement activement instaurés par l’esprit, avec le secours de l’imagination.
Jean Starobinski, « La princesse Brambilla », L’Encre de la mélancolie (via irresolu)
« [The gothic genre]’s reliance on ambiguity, on the intersection of the otherworldly and the mundane, […] proves to be fertile ground for two women’s passion to be expressed and consummated. What cannot be supported in the everyday existence of the characters is not only possible but also sometimes preferred in the ghostly environment they inhabit. However, the conventions of the genre also let the writer frame and limit the passion of the characters in order to undercut the elevation of same-sex desire to a socially acceptable form of relationship. […S]ame-sex desire is turned into a Gothic tale—a story of ghosted desire and of erotic longing that can only find expression through rendering it impossible by “derealizing” one of the participants.
[…] The popularity of the ghost story authored by women fell out of favor in the early years of the 20th century. A possible influence on [its] diminished presence was the establishment of the lesbian as a public social category, and one result was that whatever positive images of same-sex relationships between women may have existed in the 19th century, the lesbian was now viewed as psychologically and socially damaged and dangerous. The lesbian no longer had to haunt the pages of fiction; she stepped into reality and was therefore even more monstrous. The pull of same-sex desire for women was undercut by the increasing influence of a wide range of social constraints on any affectionate expressions by them; the physical intimacy once approved of as one sign of feminine sensitivity became a signal of perversion. Same-sex friendship, previously supported and encouraged, was revisioned as predatory behavior. Literary depictions of lesbians incorporated such portrayals and reinforced this increasingly negative perspective. »
— Phyllis M. Betz, The Lesbian Fantastic: A Critical Study of Science Fiction, Fantasy, Paranormal and Gothic Writings
i just find it so…sad/disgusting that there are all these men literally enraged that ‘no women find them attractive’ and then lash out at women as a whole because of it. meanwhile like, as a lesbian, it’s statistically harder for me to find another wlw and i have never ever felt angry at a woman for not being attracted to me? it’s just so clearly noxious male entitlement and i wish they could realize that their experiences are not normal
People seriously don’t know who Beck is? Did they not have a television or a radio in the 90s? This generation is so fucking sad. All people know or care about is Beyonce, Ariana Grande, Nicki Minaj, Taylor Swift and all that basic Top 40 stuff. Like y’all can’t even pick up a music magazine or…
yeah and some people aren’t even aware of Györstöc Ferentzbür the greatest austro-hungarian accordion player of the 1860’s like this generation is a pile of trash
the highwaisted breeches and loosely-tucked white shirt, possibly with sword belt attached, is THe hottest look available to any single human (or other), and i would be the lustiest harlot in regency England had i existed when it was À La Mode
