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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Apr-2024 03:16:19 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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   • Rot Maetrix

   @DotMaetrix this was pre-Blanchard and people still thought there were two types of trans women: too-gay-men and crossdressing-perverts

   • Rot Maetrix (dotmaetrix@chitter.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Apr-2024 03:16:24 JST Rot Maetrix

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     Okay but the interesting bit about She Man isn't actually itself, but the fact that it was shown alongside a 20 minute "documentary" about trans women (or extremely far-gone homosexuals, as the film describes them)

     There's a wee montage of a drag ball, which is delightful, but the majority of the film focuses on interviews with a group of trans women, which hits equal amounts of "thanks I hate it" and "holy shit I LOVE this"

     The interviewer is a fucking creep, with a focus on lurid lines of questioning putting this whole thing on basically the same chasery tier as the Playboy interview with Wendy Carlos a decade later.

     The women are incredible though. They power through the questions with an absolutely beautiful amount of dignity and vulnerability, and it just fucking goes to show, we have ALWAYS been here.

     I hope they ended up okay :heart_trans:

     https://youtu.be/X__VKNw0XiI

   • Rot Maetrix (dotmaetrix@chitter.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Apr-2024 03:16:27 JST Rot Maetrix

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     You know what, I'm going to be more specific. It's interesting.

     She-Man is a black and white exploitation film from the late 60s, with a cast from the drag scene at the time. There's some paper-thin plot about Korean War desertion and such but it knows fine well that you're there to watch the military man getting forced to take estrogen and put on a maid outfit and be part of the Evil Hot Trans Girl's harem.

     There's even a bit with a cis lesbian character who loves the protagonist as a woman but not as a man, but that ends up working into some heinous Cure Your Lesbians shit because make no mistake this isn't a GOOD bit of queer cinema or anything.

     Also it ends with the narrator talking straight to camera about how fucked up it is that cross dressing is illegal and I'm genuinely confused about how sincere it's being given that the rest of it is a kink movie about an Evil Crossdresser that forcefems people :thonking:

     https://youtu.be/8wds97jbGrE

   • Rot Maetrix (dotmaetrix@chitter.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Apr-2024 03:16:29 JST Rot Maetrix

     So today is a watch Logan followed immediately by a weird 1960s forcefemme kink movie by the Porky's director kind of day... apparently