[ frankie says go fuck yourself ]

[winterlive]

i hate bandom.

phaballa made a post about how bandom guys being gay with each other onstage is as offensive as blackface, and a buncha people commented, i'm sure you've all seen it.

and now bandom's oppressed by fandom at large, and if being gay onstage is exploitative then so is slashfic, and the fundamental point of all RPS is seperating the person from the role so if you hate fallout boy's music but still fan them b/c they gay all over each other that's totally the same thing, and OH GOD MAKE IT STOP.

i just can't STAND it. and to be honest with you, it's not the music. i've heard maybe six songs by the aforementioned bands and one is sort of okay and the others, eh, whatever. and do i care that they french each other on stage? no. i could give a flying fuck. let 'em! but sweet god in heaven, their fans are going to drive me insane. maybe there are two or three people in bandom who are reasonable and like the music (pete wentz's mom?), and i'm sure those three people are about five seconds away from a homicidal rampage right now, because believe me, i know their pain.

after all, i am in supernatural fandom.


ETA: GIP.

Comments

[traveller.livejournal.com]

fuck and yes. and to paraphrase Frank Zappa, the time for snotty boys with lipstick on will pass by (again).

(ps yaye dorothea lange icon!)

[vinylroad.livejournal.com]

Hehe. Very appropriate quote indeed.

(also - the fact that you know who Dorothea Lange is fills my heart with girlish glee. I absolutely adore her photography and most people go, "oh, is she an actress?" when I mention her name. I particularly like her migrant worker photos and her work on the internment and relocation of Japanese-Americans. Pretty scary stuff.)

[traveller.livejournal.com]

the FSA project photos are among my favorites in the world, nngh.

have you ever been here:

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html

[vinylroad.livejournal.com]

The photo in my last couple of icons - the migrant woman - is one of my favourite photographs ever. The ones of the Japanese being moved to/in the internment camps are heartbreaking. All of her photos have this... I don't know, I can't even put it into words. I've always adored black and white photography, but Dorothea Lange had this way of making her photos so powerful without them being cliched or heavy handed.

NO, I haven't. Oh man, I'm going to be stuck on this site for hours,

AHHH, woman suffrage photos. God, these are amazing. Thank you so much for the link!

[traveller.livejournal.com]

my great pleasure. :)