WTF?

[transemacabre]

Okay, WTF? #1 for the day: this fandom secret proclaiming Veronica Varlow's homeliness. Veronica, for those not in the know, is Emilie Autumn's Girl Friday and goes on tour with her. She looks like this. Why yes, that Veronica. She's a homely, homely girl. Srsly, WTF? Not only is the standard of beauty unrealistic, but so is the standard of ugly!

WTF? #2 is this post on Little Details, not so much for the post itself, which is a harmless enough inquiry about how gay people were treated in c. 12th century Ireland, but for the response down the thread in which some blithe soul proclaims, "Somehow, this doesn't quite sit right with me."

WTF? Um, I'm sorry? Maybe you could invent a time machine and go back to 12th century Ireland and take up the subject with the natives. People in the medieval period had a different viewpoint on homosexual acts than your average livejournal-patrolling modern-day fangirl. The Church was not cool with the gays. There was no Gay Pride Movement. There wasn't a concept of a homosexual identity. I mean... they had a different culture. If it doesn't 'sit right with you' then, um, good for you? I guess? I tried to add some information that was actually worth a goddamned thing, but it remains to be seen if it was taken.

Comments

[intravenusann.livejournal.com]

I just saw that fandomsecret a few minutes ago. What is wrong with some people? I've been a foot away from Veronica Varlow and she is one of the most amazingly beautiful women I have ever had the pleasure of being so close to. And she has an amazing stage presence to boot.

[transemacabre.livejournal.com]

The fandoms I participate in are typically very GIRL POWER, and I think it creates this protective little bubble around me. Same goes for the people I associate myself with in RL. The more I see of fanbrats in general, the more I find so many are envious, self-hating little bitches.

[starpiper.livejournal.com]

Well, if that's homeliness, then I certainly wish that I were homely. ::glum::

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

It baffles me that people cannot accept that people in the past were very different from us culturally. So much historical fiction and film falls at the first hurdle of suspension-of-disbelief because the characters are 21C people, with 21C values, but in fancy dress.