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moominmuppetThis was part of the weekend post, but I'm interested and curious enough about whether anyone else has seen the Annie Sprinkle movie (and if so, what they thought) that I figured I'd pull this into a separate post where it wouldn't get quite so lost.
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And I got to introduce her to one of the most awesome girl/girl scenes in mainstream porn (Justine and Sarah in Tristan Taormino's House of Ass), and we decided to check out Annie Sprinkle's Linda/Les and Annie, which I'd picked up on VHS clearance from Blowfish ages ago, but never gotten around to watching. Now, I adore Annie Sprinkle. I think she can be a total flake at times, and she's waaaaay too new agey for me most of the time, but she's one of our patron saints, and part of our history, and always, entirely, herself. I've seen most of her stuff, and I generally know what I'm in for. That said, hooboy! We were at least relieved to see a disclaimer at the end that "Les's experience is not typical for ftms, yadda yadda". Wow. No shit. Honestly, it kind of felt like he'd heard all the worst and nastiest stereotypes about reasons people might be trans, and had just incorporated them whole-hog into his identity in ways that had Katy and I yelling at the TV on a regular basis. Especially paired with Annie's overly earnest but thoroughly clueless attempts at being transfriendly in ways that certainly read as uncomfortably fetishizing. In fact, I was shocked to discover it was made as relatively recently as it was (1989) -- Katy and I were guessing further back than that, based on some of the implicit politics.
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And I got to introduce her to one of the most awesome girl/girl scenes in mainstream porn (Justine and Sarah in Tristan Taormino's House of Ass), and we decided to check out Annie Sprinkle's Linda/Les and Annie, which I'd picked up on VHS clearance from Blowfish ages ago, but never gotten around to watching. Now, I adore Annie Sprinkle. I think she can be a total flake at times, and she's waaaaay too new agey for me most of the time, but she's one of our patron saints, and part of our history, and always, entirely, herself. I've seen most of her stuff, and I generally know what I'm in for. That said, hooboy! We were at least relieved to see a disclaimer at the end that "Les's experience is not typical for ftms, yadda yadda". Wow. No shit. Honestly, it kind of felt like he'd heard all the worst and nastiest stereotypes about reasons people might be trans, and had just incorporated them whole-hog into his identity in ways that had Katy and I yelling at the TV on a regular basis. Especially paired with Annie's overly earnest but thoroughly clueless attempts at being transfriendly in ways that certainly read as uncomfortably fetishizing. In fact, I was shocked to discover it was made as relatively recently as it was (1989) -- Katy and I were guessing further back than that, based on some of the implicit politics.
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Date: 2007-03-21 02:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-03-21 09:32 pm (UTC)Katy and I dubbed it an "interesting piece of history", but not a case where we're exactly lamenting it's not freshly available on DVD or something.
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Date: 2007-03-23 06:17 pm (UTC)