Jeff from
Protein Wisdom on trans politics and country music:
"The performance was of course steeped in Queerness, both in the pretend oppression of performers literally center stage at a televised awards show, and in the academic sense, where drag serves as a kind of postmodern Harlequin dance to usher pre-initiates into Queer theory more broadly. Choreographed to confront its audience, the unspoken subtext of the number was that it’s time for you to pick a side — and you had better be careful which side you pick.
The whole spectacle was, in fact, an offensive. A show of power. The precise moment when the tyranny of the Elect, the permanent victim class, flexed its collective muscles and informed viewers, with a glittery hostility camouflaged as kitsch, that any march through the institutions must and will be a march through all institutions. The country music scene is not immune. Nothing is. Because for the revolution to succeed, cultural hegemony must police its framework. And cultural hegemony brooks no dissent".
3 comments:
The Bendy Wendys and other forms of the great faggotry had better be careful what they wish for. People who are fans of Country are not generally placid around twats who want to spoil their entertainment by demanding that their games of dress up and pretend are taken seriously.
" People who are fans of Country are not generally placid around twats who want to spoil their entertainment..."
We need a country version of 'Let's Face The Music And Dance'...
I didn't read past the second line in that appalling word salad. A mish-mash of fashionable buzzwords the writer thinks will impress us.
How about a simple "I enjoyed/hated it" rather than a pseudo-socio-scientific load of bollocks?
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