A Truth Universally Acknowledged

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During her more than 60-year career, Parton sold more than 100 million records and won 11 Grammy Awards, making her one of the best-selling musical performers of all time.

[...] Parton was also a shrewd businesswoman who amassed an estimated $650 million fortune and maintained creative control in the cutthroat and male-dominated music industry. She presided over an entertainment empire that included the Dollywood theme park. And she was a devoted philanthropist who launched the Dollywood Foundation to provide poverty relief and fund educational programs in her native East Tennessee.

It's a long retrospective of her life, more than I can really quote here.

Yes, of course there is nuance to it. Of course mainstream masculinity rejected and mocked men in the scene for wearing makeup and skinny jeans.

However, I think there is a mistake being made in believing "scene fashion rejected mainstream gender norms and patriarchy"

when in fact it was that mainstream gender norms and patriarchy rejected scene fashion.

And unfortunately, in response, many many maaany straight men experiencing that rejection, being called homophobic slurs, being told they no longer qualified as men or masculine, did not ban together with women and girls and queer people.

in fact they said, "hey! we're not f*gs! how could we be gay when we're subjecting women and preteen girls within our counterculture to misogyny and sexual violence the likes of which you wouldn't even imagine? you'd be impressed, even. and that's just the start. wait until we tell you what we do to the actual queer people you're accusing us of being."

like genuinely it is impossible to exaggerate the depravity from your average guy in pink skinny jeans i experienced as a scene girl ages 12-17. i've mostly stopped talking about it because it's genuinely just so deeply unpleasant i don't like subjecting people to it.

and most importantly this was a very common experience among all of marginalized people i knew in that scene.

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guy who kept the coffin of the buried in his living room and used it as a coffee table

walked out of the spiral because his dog needed dinner

the plumber who was so inattentive that the stranger put on a whole spectacle for him and he straight-up missed it all