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Omg it does! Is jack a vampire?
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Don't know if art can be included in this thread but this is a piece done by an artist friend of mine who painted it as a book cover for a short story I wrote a few years back.
Anyway, I love it and wanted to share:
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Wow... great thread! Oh my! New favorite.
There's a pic on an a page of one of the dating sites, that just takes my breath away. I saved it to my computer, but I haven't figured out how to upload images yet. I don't want to put in a link because it will probably rotate or change. Anyway...yum...loving the great pics and videos. |
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Aside from the female Masculinity aspect the image portrays. What I also loved about it was - particularly for that time, it reminded women of the potential to be/do anything. I know history has many other examples of women rebelling against social norms and this is not to dishonour those who came before. |
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skyler cooper... mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm I'd personally rather see real butches here than over-exposed racist white heterosexual celebrities dressing up and emulating the worst of misogynistic male behaviour for attention (ie: lady gaga) |
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See, now I see Lady GaGa's alter ego, Jo Calderone, as a progressive way of introducing transgender into mainstream media. People who are not in the GLBT community don't have much awareness/exposure to fluid sexuality and I applaud Lady GaGa for providing exposure. To me, attention-getting isn't a bisexual woman who has obvious different-gender leanings but Katy Perry singing about how she kissed a girl and she liked it when she's never done any such thing. Just my two cents.
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I disagree. Lady Gaga is not a trans man and she is not, by all accounts, bisexual. She has indicated herself she is hetero. A little experimenting with women - which she also has indicated does not satisfy her as relationships with men do - does not a bisexual make.Also "Jo Calderone's" gross, sexist behaviour isn't exactly a glowing recommendation for maleness, whether cis or trans. I think Gaga's entire image and everything she does is false and designed for publicity. She also repeatedly engages in racist behaviour. Having said all that, I'm not on this forum to get into heavy wars about shit to be honest so I'll leave it at that.
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I have no idea who this woman is but she's is quite handsome!
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