Margaret Thatcher was a nightmare whose monstrous treatment of Britain's queers under Section 28 spawned a whole counter-cultural movement. https://twitter.com/guybranum/status/786787009792663552 …
I'm confused. If you were just being Camp Guy w/ your initial tweet, why were you defending it on the merits as well?pic.twitter.com/BOnAr4owm9
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Now let's re-focus our energies on loving Lester B. Pearson.pic.twitter.com/Xe8ThZJB8E
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I grew up next to LESTER B PEARSON elementary! (I didn't go there tho bc i am a filthy papist)
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That dude was a leader. He worried about everyone getting heard.
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being delighted by canadian prime ministers is literally my chief pastimehttps://twitter.com/meakoopa/status/707671352782823424 …
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Yeah, but who told his dad to run for Parliament?
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oh no am EXACTLY AS BLIND on this flank as ur Thatcher thing bc Pierre was an autocrat but i love him (pro-gay tho)
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cruel, monstrous, moralizing figure. i'm accept both her significance to me, and the reality of her policies.
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I like this better than the Billy Elliot tweet. To me, Thatcher is the murderer of Derek Jarman's generation.
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And I find bad taste of celebrating her outweighs any joy. But if u feel the camp joy outweighs the horrors - ymmv!
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"Well behaved women rarely make history" - A non-monstrous woman who never got to be in charge of anything
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"There is no alternative" or slamming down some Hayek and pronouncing "This is what we believe"
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Thatcher killed a generation of gay icons. I cannot love her for it.
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figure in the news, and so uncompromisingly, meant something to me, but she was also, i learned over time, a petty
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We have moms who hate us, teach us to hate ourselves and kick us out of the house, but still, on levels, we lovethem
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Irony is "so bad it's good" camp is a complex relationship of significant hostility/badness combined with appeal
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I was defending an aspect on the merits. Inherent in camp, as opposed to irony, is a complicated relationship
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She's a drag queen. She's a caricature of a person, so I DO take perverse pleasure in statements like...
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Camp is a complex tool for complex emotions. As a kid who didn't comfortably identify as male, having a non-male
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