lorna

"Capitalism is temporary. Dykes are forever"

demonic pigs attack

Vincent of Beauvais, Le Mirouer historial (French translation of Speculum historiale), Paris 1463

stomach, genitals: idiot bitches who know exactly what they want and never shut up about it

wait. cancel post. gung-ho cannot be English. where did that phrase come from? China?

ok, yes. gōnghé, which is…an abbreviation for “industrial cooperative”? Like it was just a term for a worker-run organization? A specific U.S. marine stationed in China interpreted it as a motivational slogan about teamwork, and as a commander he got his whole battalion using it, and other U.S. marines found those guys so exhausting that it migrated into English slang with the meaning “overly enthusiastic”.

They cannot fucking get over a woman with armpit hair. Rhian has been talking about it in interviews too, because that's how much they've been commenting: on the band's socials, on Youtube under their Glasto performance, under random indie rock accounts talking about their music, under the BBC socials, fucking endless! At one point, Rhian has been saying she's stopped deleting these comments so people can see for themselves how out of pocket the comments from complete strangers who think they should have control over another woman's body were getting (NYLON mag interview).

Anyway, come album release week and Wet Leg are potentially on their way to a #1 UK album, though since it is also Oasis reunion month, they are also being bought expeditiously (Time Flies compilation, decades old, nothing new). Rhian jumps in on this with a video basically saying, "no idea why people are offended by a grown woman not looking pre pubescent but fine, here's a deal: buy the album, if we get to #1 I'll shave the armpit hair."

Thankfully there was equal demand for both moisturizer the album as well as leaving Rhian's armpits unbothered, and so the album finished at the top of the charts and the band posted a very funny post of guitarists Hester and Rhian ceremoniously shaving the armpits of the three men in the band. Many cheers from the girls in the crowd! Many cheers from me!! Resigned acceptance from some of the internet men.

Interestingly, some of the men in the comments were commiserating with the Wet Leg lads: "oof, that's gonna be hell in a week when they start to grow back". That's never a problem when policing a woman's body hair. Curious.

Anyway long live Rhian Teasdale and long live Rhian Teasdale's armpit hair. 💪💚💚

Also Rhian's partner is genderqueer, Rhian says