Bisexual Visibility Day
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Bisexual Visibility Day

I've been pondering how to write about this on and off all day. Then I saw what Jazz Hands Srs Bznss had written and I thought:Why bother? I'm not going to do a better post than that.So go and read Dave's post. And then think on, and try not to partici...
My Bisexual Anthem for Bi Visibility Day By Jacqueline…
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My Bisexual Anthem for Bi Visibility Day By Jacqueline…



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My Bisexual Anthem for Bi Visibility Day

By Jacqueline Applebee

Bisexuals.

We’re not straight or gay.

Not a silent B

After this great day.

We’re out and proud,

Clothed in purple hues;

Smashing fences down

With our New Rocks boots.

Bisexuals.

Going all the way.

Not invisible.

Neither straight or gay.

Bisexuals.

Let your voices shout.

LGBT

Don’t dare leave us out!

Bi Visibility Day is here
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The updated bingo card for hanging out with geeky/nerdy white…
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The updated bingo card for hanging out with geeky/nerdy white…



The updated bingo card for hanging out with geeky/nerdy white folks.  Still quite British, but now 20% more clueless, privileged and racist!

The original bingo card is here

I’m still bisexual.  I’m still hanging around with geeky/nerdy white folks. I love my friends most of the time, but they also manage to piss me off on a regular basis.  Hence the extended bingo card.  It is still my major resource to surviving interactions with them with my brain intact. And without being incredibly lonely.

 

I’m going to concentrate on the centre four squares, because I actually have a job, and it ain’t this.  No further explanations of the outer boxes will be given.  Please don’t ask.

 

Game of Thrones

This show manages to tick every single box of what it is like to be on the outside of popular culture, watching horrified at the world around you.  It manages to be racist, misogynistic and triggering to survivors of violence and/or abuse.  http://smokeandstir.org/2013/06/22/game-of-thrones-racism-and-white-saviors/ 

So many white geeky/nerdy folks love this show, and will not shut the hell up about it.  Dare you complain about any of this, and you will encounter the next square on the bingo card.

 

No other black people around

You’ll probably notice how alone you are if you try to speak up about anything.  Not all white folks are racist, but the cluelessness and privelige that many have can leave you flummoxed.  Get used to explaining why things are hurtful, insulting and racist, because that will be your major contribution, whether you like it or not.

 

Steampunk

Or what happened when Goths discovered the colour brown.  Never mind that steampunk is a fictional concept, it’s a case of history repeating itself and ignoring people of colour.  Do an internet search of “Steampunk images of people” and try to find more than three people who are black.  Scroll down a good few pages.  Go on, I’ll wait for you to come back.  Not much luck?  Yeah.  I thought so.

 

Racism Apologists

I wish this wasn’t on here.  I wish I didn’t have to encounter this in almost every conversation I have with white geeky/nerdy white folks.  But I do.  Some examples I’ve personally had to grit my teeth through…

“X isn’t racist, it’s artistic.”

“X isn’t racist, it’s an accurate portrayal of the time period (even if it’s set in the future)

“X isn’t racist, because Islam isn’t a race.” (seriously, do not get me started on this one)

“X isn’t racist, because Scottish/Welsh people get called names too. Nobody starts a riot about that.”

 

Gah.

Things that didn’t make the card: Esperanto, Torture Garden club night, Richard Dawkins.

Things I removed from previous card: Slutwalk, Referencing the Guardian newspaper.

And lastly…

Bitcoin.  Seriously?  Everyone has way too much time on their hands.

Faster Pussycat, Kill, Kill! (1965)

Faster Pussycat, Kill, Kill! (1965)


Russ Meyer is one of my absolute favourite directors as a purveyor of camp fun, cheekiness and sleaze. His movies are always a joy to watch if you have a silly sense of humour, and he often casts women as supremely powerful and sexually aggressive. He is also a famous breast fetishist, and chose his leading ladies accordingly. I had to review this movie after hearing about the death of Haji earlier this month – Haji was a Go-go dancer and this was one of her most famous movies.



Director: Russ Meyer


Stars: Tura Santana, Haji, Lori Williams


Language: English


Length: 83min


Ratings: UK 18, USA Unrated – (Much is made of the violence in this film, but it is camp and exaggerated – there is brief nudity but most of the ‘good bits’ are cut out of shot)


Bisexual Characters:  Varla, Billie (Rosie is a lesbian)


Description: Three thrill seeking and deadly Go-go dancers in fast cars set off on a killing spree in the desert, kidnapping the young girlfriend of one of their victims before going after an old man’s money. Fast cars, karate chopping action and cheesy innuendo abounds.



Overall Thoughts


I first watched this film when I was around seventeen, when I was first discovering Russ Meyer and I have to say, I still find it wildly entertaining. Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill! is considered to be Meyer’s magnum opus, and is a complete cult classic. It is an interesting film to watch from a female empowerment perspective as for its time (mid-sixties) the three central characters are refreshingly subversive. Varla, Rosie and Billie are all dominant, fun-loving, violent and unapologetic – which may or may not be your cup of tea, but is certainly ahead of its time. Women are seen again and again beating men in challenges of strength, wit and even drag racing in this movie, and even though their bodies all conform to a very particular ‘type’, they are definitely in charge of their own sexual destinies.



Presentation of Bisexuality


Bisexual women are often found in Russ Meyer’s work, and this film is no different. It is made fairly clear through not-so-subtle puns that two of the girls (Varla and Billie) are bisexual, while Rosie is gay and has no interest in men. In fact, Rosie and Varla are lovers (although this is never explicitly shown, only heavily implied) and Rosie becomes massively jealous when Varla goes after a dude. This of course (once again!) covers the ever popular trope that bisexuals are sex maniacs who are never satisfied with simply one partner of one gender. Something which Billie’s character explains to Rosie beautifully:


I can turn myself on a dozen different ways, but you? You’ve only got one channel, and your channel’s busy tuning in outside. You really should be AM and FM – you one-band broads are a drag!

Tura Santana as Varla

Varla, played by the magnificent Tura Santana, fulfills another popular trope – the depraved bisexual. She is clearly the most psychopathic and violent of the three women, as their leader, and her appetite for murder and mayhem is equalled only by her voracious appetite for sex. I definitely think that bisexuality here is used as an example of depravity, as Varla makes it clear that she will do anything and screw anything.


[I want] Everything – or as much as I can get. Right now you’re first on my list – and I always start at the top.


Conclusion



This film is not for everybody, that’s granted. It’s a fairly obscure kind of ‘genre’, and regarded by most as a quirky B-movie throwback. But the humour, I think, still stands, and the unashamed hammy acting has only increased its longevity. As a bisexual movie it would not be the top of any list I made, but it is certainly an excellent example of the tropes I mentioned. 
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