Hi speaking of medical literacy for trans people, transfems pls check out the website Transfeminine Science, especially their introductory article on feminizing HRT
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In one of her last interviews, Theda [Bara] waxed nostalgic about the silent screen. “To understand those days,” she told Hedda Hopper, “you must consider that people believed what they saw on the screen. Nobody had destroyed the great illusion. Now they know it’s all make-believe.“ She also took the casually dressed stars of the 1950’s to task, in an incisive tirade which holds just as true today as it did then. “It’s the stars themselves who have been failing the fans. People have always been hungry for glamour- they still are. But it takes showmanship and a constant sense of responsibility to hold their interest. A star mustn’t allow her public to see her in slacks. She should dress beautifully at all times- I don’t mean in a bizarre way. She must live their dreams for them and remain a figure of mystery. Glamour is the most essential part of Hollywood.”
Hollywood’s first sex symbol then offered an appraisal of Hollywood’s current sex symbol, Marilyn Monroe. “I think, like everyone else, that she is sexy. But I don’t believe she likes it much, does she? She probably will have the same trouble I have had,” Theda concluded prophetically. “She will never be able to live down her reputation.“ -Vamp: The Rise and Fall of Theda Bara by Eve Golden
When alt music fans get pretentious about not listening to popular / mainstream music I just think about the way that like all the OG alt musicians who actually invented these genres were literally listening to household name pop rock & disco lol. Similarly to when goths act like you gotta dress a certain way to really be goth when Ian Curtis was out there in plain shirts and jeans or when rivetheads act like you gotta be hard and edgy to listen to industrial as if the birth of the scene wasn’t gays and hippies listening to folk and disco—it’s funny to see the way music fans hold themselves to higher (more pretentious) standards than the guys who made the music they’re primarily identifying as “fans of” to begin with.
In Gerda Barker’s memoir (Paul Barker of Ministry’s ex wife who was super involved in the Wax Trax! scene and worked for a time in the physical record store) she tells a great story about hearing a song on the radio for the first time and being so blown away she called up friends and was like “turn the radio on RIGHT NOW” and then she reveals the song was “Funkytown” lol.
