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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Replying to @TransEthics @arthur_affect
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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I mean... it's about his girlfriend at the time
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
That's the story Kurt gave the press, anyway.
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Replying to @TransEthics @arthur_affect
I mean "I'm a girl and also I'm shitty to live with" is certainly a familiar sentiment to some among us
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