The Lavender Menace - Compulsory heterosexuality, Red (Taylor's Version) ranking + review, defending Taylor Swift against the haters

Compulsory heterosexuality, Red (Taylor's Version) ranking + review, defending Taylor Swift against the haters

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11/18/21 • 166 min

The Lavender Menace

Happy Red (Taylor's Version) release everyone! We are so excited to share our thoughts on the All Too Well (1o minute version) short film and our ranking of the album in episode 2 season 3 of The Lavender Menace podcast. But before Sunny and Renaissance get into all that, we discuss three (3!) of y'all's hot takes that answer the following questions: is compulsory heterosexuality a lesbian exclusive experience? (Short answer, yes.) How are millennial cis bisexual white women the most delusional people alive? (Other "leftist" podcast hosts have such shitty takes, unlike us...) Why do y'all bully minors over the most ridiculous things? (You need to deprogram yourself from imperialist propaganda.) After our hot takes, we discuss all our Taylor Swift thoughts now that we've listened to Red TV and watched her directorial debut of the short film featuring Sadie Sink and Dylan O'Brien. We defend her against white feminist allegations, queercode her work as always, and contextualize the re-release of this seminal album within her career. Finally, we give each other quick recommendations, Renaissance's Scenes of a Marriage and Sunny's Spencer, one of which will be the basis for our next episode! Hint hint.

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Previous Episode

addressing the biphobia discourse, battling internet ignorance, & our Fearless (Taylor's Version) x reputation era

Welcome to season 3 of The Lavender Menace! Today we are forgoing our typical three part structure to complain about recent allegations, internet happenings, online battles... Sunny is in their reputation era again, thanks to overly online bisexuals accusing Sunny of being overly online while flooding them with violent online harassment. As Sunny's number one defender (and number one hater,) Renaissance talks about the overwhelming whiteness involved with people getting angry over lesbians speaking the obvious. We reference season 1 episode 4 throughout this episode, so if you haven't listened to that one yet, you should do that! We talk about how lesbophobia is the legitimate unique amalgamation of systemic oppression people seem to think biphobia is, and break down every single talking point we've been seeing floating around due to the accidental launching of this round of LGBTQ discourse. Renaissance discusses how the internet phenomenon of hating on reading theory and complex, necessary vocabulary usage is frustrating as hell, we rant about the ridiculousness of accusing Sunny being a TERF or transphobic in their talking points, and how nothing Sunny or Renaissance said was wrong. Much love to our listeners who've supported us through the insanity of the past several weeks of getting collectively dogpiled on. Thank you so much to our Patreon patrons as well, we appreciate you so much. If you want the Patreon exclusive video edition of this episode where you can see Sunny wear their Taylor Swift official merch folklore shirt (which is pictured in this episode's cover art, as well as Renaissance's painting of The Lavender Menace logo on a tote bag, and screen caps of the shit we've been going through...) and drink copious amounts of tea in between yelling, cackling, and ranting, go subscribe! Pledges start as low as $5 a month, with more exclusive content the higher up your pledges are :)

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Next Episode

fake gays, is Reputation overrated? & Passing (2021) dir. Rebecca Hall

Some scintillating takes for listeners on season 3's episode 3 of The Lavender Menace! Including but not limited to: are "fake bisexuals" real/bad/an issue? (Short answer is no. The issue is always heterosexism.) Is Taylor Swift a good person? Are Letterboxd reviewers the worst? Renaissance and Sunny fervently defend Taylor Swift's album 'Reputation' in response to our 17 year old gaylor listener's hot take submission, discuss the political implications of her potential "coming out" (which we argue, has already occurred), and how she operates as an artist in the world we live in. After the regularly scheduled hot take portion of the pod, Renaissance discusses how the recently released Rebecca Hall adaptation of Nella Larsen's Passing, available on Netflix, portrays inter-community Black issues in a nuanced and intelligent way that many audience members are seeming to miss. Sunny looks at Passing from a comparative analysis perspective as someone who read and loved the classic Harlem Renaissance book the film is based on. In cross-referencing fictionalized experiences to real life people's history, as recorded in the seminal nonfiction book Black Metropolis by St. Clair Drake and Horace R. Cayton Jr.'s chapter 7, titled "Crossing The Color Line" (available to read for free on Archive.org), Sunny and Renaissance discuss the historical and pop cultural relevancy of the questions Passing brings up about racial identity, visibility and Blackness, and the legitimate unique racial experiences regarding cross-cultural and boundary crossing that people experience. Renaissance also compares the experience of watching the film to reading the Toni Morrison short story, Recitatif, in their similar authorial manipulation of racial perception for the narratives' consumer. And transitioning into the regularly scheduled third part of the podcast, Sunny recommends the semi recently released and critically acclaimed Brit Bennet novel The Vanishing Half, which follows two sisters over the course of their lives and the varying racial experiences they have as white passing Black women in 20th century American society. Renaissance recommends the movie Aimée and Jaguar (1999) dir. Max Färberböck for the lesbian period piece goodness of it all, as well as its portrayal of the dynamics and contradictions of racial/ethnic perception in the context of another 20th century caste society- Nazi Germany.

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