I mean, obviously that makes David Bowie -- who, at the end of the day, was a cishet dude whose queerness was all onstage persona shit -- way more problematic Before you add in the part about fucking "baby groupies"
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Cobain was bisexual or at least bicurious, he talked about it in interviews and stuff, but definitely preferred women We can't KNOW what his sexuality was but we also were deprived of the opportunity to get any updates on it after 1994
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @arthur_affect
I mean based on just what we hear about the kind of child Kurt Cobain was (pretty much 100% "sensitive smol bean with a Ritalin prescription") it's hard for someone like me to imagine he grew up to be exclusively into chicks
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Replying to @Nymphomachy
Well I try not to go along with reductive stereotypes like "feminine = queer" I mean quotes like this are really a Rorschach blotpic.twitter.com/PqTMF0crZj
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
I guess it bears bringing up that Courtney Love, who was terrible, was a lot blunter about this, like she made fun of him going "He would make out with guys to freak out the media but when I tried to arrange a three-way with Michael Stipe he totally chickened out"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
(Does the "one-dick-per-bedroom rule" mean you're straight, or just tied up in internalized homophobia/possessive toxic masculinity, or afraid of the gossip rags, or really does it just apply to being naked around Michael Stipe)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
Some speculate that Kurt was a closeted trans woman, which (coupled with the success of Nirvana) Courtney wouldn't allow to happen because of her own homophobia.
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I know there's a lot of misogynistic vilification of Courtney Love and the vast majority of it probably isn't justified but it's also 300% true that Kurt Cobain was my idol when I was about thirteen years old and I modeled my femininity directly after his
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I guess it says something that the two men I most looked up to as a kid, Mick Foley and Kurt Cobain, were both these kindhearted, soft-featured, long-haired, vaguely left-liberal, relentlessly self-destructive men with an undeniable Gen-X aesthetic
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The line from Fresh Off the Boat, "Why are you dressed like a picnic blanket"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
I truly believe that "About a Girl" was Kurt trying to tell the world he wasn't a guy.
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Replying to @TransEthics @Nymphomachy
I mean... it's about his girlfriend at the time
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