this is SO interesting also The White Lady Of Elysian Park’s story and how it’s evolved since then (Now she’s often specifically a Pachuca murdered by WWII sailors) says a lot about… a lot of stuff.
It’s also really really REALLY heart wrenching and I don’t recommend you read it if you’re not in a space to deal with it right now (it has a lot of stuff that relates deeply to issues of class, race, and gender, and just like… I wish I could help and protect every “bad” teenage girl out there)
is waaaaaaay more explicitly about fetishizing forms of femininity specific to working class women…
Roses and lace and Rhinestones and whatever because it’s “not tasteful” and it’s like “Oh, I’m sorry, it’s really easy to choose the sleek minimalist number or tasteful little thing when your life isn’t hard and sad, also like taste is subjective and maybe yours is only seen as good cause your group dominates society, or y’ know WHATEVER”
Please.
Beauty standards are evil and I’m sick of the idea that women who look like me are vain and evil and hate other women.
Motherfucker half the reason I do all this stuff is because I love hanging with other women and sharing arcane beauty knowledge.
Just sayin’ also glam in the US was kicked off by the very working class bridge and tunnel New York Dolls.
Glam metal is working class as fuck.
It’s interesting how the fact that people often mistake working class girl’s class membership identity signifiers as signifiers of sexual availability and promiscuity. When in fact they have very little to do with sexual signifying, like the working class girls’ tight clothes and heavy makeup were to indicate which group of girls (and thereby which class) they belonged to, and it had very little to do with performing desirability and availability to boys. In fact the working class girls were often less interested in heterosexual relationships and more likely to consider boys more trouble than they were worth.
I think a lot of these dudes who keep putting me on their porn blogs are seeing the stereotype of working class appearing women as hypersexual, and also not understanding the class identity part. I mean also who does sex work? Prole women.
IDK
Thoughts From The Peacock Angel 