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Larrabee State Park, near Bellingham, Washington, May, 1973

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Mieko Shiomi, Music for Two Players II, 1963

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straight men trying to make Serious war dramas and accidentally making incredibly tender homoerotic cinema is the funniest thing

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In his essay, “Masculinity as Spectacle,” Steve Neale seeks to extend Laura Mulvey’s work on the male gaze and to challenge her assertion that the male or male-identified spectator can never look upon the male body as an erotic object. To challenge Mulvey’s assertion, Neale identifies the mechanisms mainstream Hollywood cinema uses to represent the male body as erotic. One way of doing this, Neale argues, is by making the male body the target of violence. In the war film, a soldier can hold his buddy – as long as his buddy is dying on the battlefield. In the western, Butch Cassidy can wash the Sundance Kid’s naked flesh – as long as it is wounded. In the boxing film, a trainer can rub the well-developed torso and sinewy back of his protege – as long as it is bruised. In the crime film, a mob lieutenant can embrace his boss like a lover – as long as he is riddled with bullets. Violence makes the homoeroticism of many “male” genres invisible; it is a structural mechanism of plausible deniability.

-Kent Brintnall

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Untitled (You Construct Intricate Rituals) 1981 Barbara Kruger (American, born in 1945)

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anyway i advocate for punching terfs

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#i want him to eat me ngl #r

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wordsnquotes:

“It isn’t possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.”

— E.M. Forster, from A Room with a View (Penguin Essentials, 2011)

“Pleasure appears when there is the feeling of power.”

—F. Nietzsche, The Will to Power, §1023 (excerpt).

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“almost every woman i have ever met has a secret belief that she is just on the edge of madness, that there is some deep, crazy part within her, that she must be on guard constantly against ‘losing control’ — of her temper, of her appetite, of her sexuality, of her feelings, of her ambition, of her secret fantasies, of her mind”

— Elana Dykewomon “Notes for a Magazine"

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