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the fact that people use the term “problematic” to describe both fiction that’s bigoted, fiction that’s made by someone who’s done/said something horrible and fiction that simply includes dark themes is really annoying actually

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#no but seriously #''i'm gonna write such a problematic-'' you can just say you're gonna write a dark story #the word has already been rendered meaningless stop making it worse #< prev #yeah #not history

the fact that people use the term “problematic” to describe both fiction that’s bigoted, fiction that’s made by someone who’s done/said something horrible and fiction that simply includes dark themes is really annoying actually

#and then people try and use this conflation to argue that if you’re against censorship you shouldn’t boycott Harry Potter #like those are two different things actually #pls can this website learn what a boycott is #not history

I think my issue with a lot of Pride Month queer history content is that there is this desire to make queer history more palatable and I don’t fuck with that.

#queer history is messy #queer historical figures weren’t perfect people #and most importantly queer people didn’t gain rights by asking politely

anyway I think that we should celebrate d'Eon for manipulating and blackmailing the King of France into affirming her gender and also buying her a whole new wardrobe of women's clothes

#chevalière d'eon

I understand why people want to frame it as d’Eon petitioned to have her legal sex changed but that’s a really misleading way of describing what actually happened. She did not ask the King to change her legal sex. She tricked him into doing it. Louis XVI was not a trans ally.

#unfortunately you can’t really fully explain how d’Eon legally changed her sex without getting into the murder for hire plot #which takes longer than a paragraph to explain #chevalière d'eon

I do think the phenomenon of people using they/them pronouns for d'Eon but then using "le" and "chevalier" has more to do with people not knowing French than anything else but there is just something about using gender neutral language in English but then defaulting to masculine in French thats..

#and then 9/10 times they use her deadname #chevalière d'eon

amphibious-thing

It’s really interesting that people still read the babydoll cut as a child silhouette when at this point it has a long history in women’s fashion and isn’t a standard cut in girls fashion.

amphibious-thing

This isn't really my area of fashion history so correct me if I get something wrong but Sabrina Carpenter's babydolls always felt very 50s/60s pin-up inspired which is inline with her aesthetics over all. Olivia Rodrigo's babydolls feel more 90s kinderwhore inspired. Obviously yes kinderwhore is deliberately using elements of children's fashion but it was more about the juxtaposition of the "good girl" look with punk aesthetics braking down the virgin/whore dichotomy. Both singers were imo clearly inspired by 20th century adult women's fashion.

#and even if they were literally dressing as children #it would still be absurd to blame them for csa #sorry I'm still thinking about this ridiculous discourse

I discovered your blog because someone I follow reposted you and it was one of the best discoveries ever! I learned a lot about la Chevalière d’Eon because of you and I really wanna thank you for your work!

I love getting messages like this! Even if its only a few people I'm so happy to help people learn about d'Eon.

when you have any kind of food allergy or intolerance there will always be that person who treats you like a kid trying to get out of eating their veggies

#not history

It’s really interesting that people still read the babydoll cut as a child silhouette when at this point it has a long history in women’s fashion and isn’t a standard cut in girls fashion.

#this isn’t really my area of fashion history tho

amphibious-thing

“My name is now Geneviève d’Eon; how delightful and how sweet is my joy!”

~ The Chevalière d’Eon, The Maiden of Tonnerre p87

#this is why it’s so important to me that people know her name was Geneviève #chevalière d'eon

i'm just one person, but you've definitely educated me a lot about the chevalière d'éon! i'd sort of heard of her before but only in very vague "historical queer person but no more details than that" ways, so seeing so many posts with detailed information about her, her life, her gender, etc. has been genuinely fascinating. so...i can confirm the effort of trying to get people to stop misgendering her has worked on at least one person!

thank you for this message anon it’s nice to know I’m not just screaming into the void

#sometimes I feel like I’m just preaching to the choir #chevalière d'eon

Look I know I’ll never be able to get everyone to stop misgendering and deadnaming d’Eon because some people are just transphobic. But I hope I can maybe stop at least some people from accidentally misgendering and deadnaming her.

#so many people are clearly not doing it on purpose #chevalière d'eon

PSA for Pride Month

It’s “the Chevalière d’Eon” or “la Chevalière d’Eon” not “le Chevalier d’Eon”. Both “la” and “Chevalière” are feminine “le” and “Chevalier” are masculine. Her full name was Charlotte-Geneviève-Louise-Auguste-André-Timothée d’Eon de Beaumont. Her preferred given name was Geneviève.

It’s great to see people wanting to share her story but let’s try not to misgender or deadname her.

#also no her name was not Lia this is a myth based on one letter #chevalière d'eon #chevalier d’eon #< tagging for reach

my favourite part of pride month is the increase of posts about queer history that get half the facts wrong

#🙃

as someone who gets both asthma attacks and panic attacks I can understand why it could be hard for people to identify the difference if they haven't experienced both but they feel very different to me

#like completely different experiences #not history #personal #sorry I was reading about someone who was misdiagnosed with a panic disorder when they had asthma and it made me think about it #as someone who has both asthma and a panic disorder

the demonisation of masculinity will always negatively effect GNC women

#I’m never surprised when a so called feminist who goes on about how men are stinky and gross turns out to hate GNC women #like yeah if your ‘femininsm’ hasn’t moved beyond girls rule boys drool #I’m not surprised that you think bullying GNC women is praxis

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