Back in the 1960’s there was plenty of uproar about long hair, boys dressing like girls and girls dressing like boys and not being able to tell the boys from the girls. I noticed society didn’t fall apart. You know how I can tell, because we’re still fucking here you morons. Just leave people the fuck alone. And if you can’t manage to restrain yourself, go fuck yourself.
There’s a song from the 1920s called “masculine women and feminine men” about this same panic. Get over it.
“A society which cannot tolerate genderbending or cross- dressing ultimately will not tolerate homosexuality, bisexuality, or any other deviance from sexual or gender norms, no matter how closeted or assimilated.”
Back in the 1960’s there was plenty of uproar about long hair, boys dressing like girls and girls dressing like boys and not being able to tell the boys from the girls. I noticed society didn’t fall apart. You know how I can tell, because we’re still fucking here you morons. Just leave people the fuck alone. And if you can’t manage to restrain yourself, go fuck yourself.
@telltaletypist the “third space” refers to a space between work (or in teens’ case school) and home! Basically it’s a comfortable space that allows you to mentally transition between the mental states of work and home. One of the reason why Starbucks ended up as such a widespread coffee chain is because they heavily modeled their locations on this concept. Libraries are also increasingly trying to make themselves “third spaces” for their respective communities. But capitalism doesn’t really like people just hanging out in spots and not spending money, so third spaces that aren’t commercial are getting increasingly rare. There is also something to be said about the general pathologization and criminalization of teens literally just hanging out. Like teens will hang out in a parking lot and proprietors will put up “no loitering” signs. One more third space eliminated.
ALT
