kontextmaschine:

wait a second, is “Borderline” (from 1983′s Madonna) riffing on Borderline Personality Disorder (from 1980′s DSM-III)?

dat video tho. I say that part of her brand identity was “has a thing for rough trade”, but woo.

Kinda clarifies how Paglia used Madonna as the key to her feminism, what I as ‘90s boy expected to inherit, eager like a kid on Christmas Eve

see not just that women would become men, but that then heterosexuals could get to be gay men together

like the idealized straight view from the ‘80s

(the early still-basically-the-’70s ‘80s, where that meant fun and not death)

like we could all have an urban tribe that were basically our friends but also our lovers on a fluid basis

in retrospect shoulda paid more attention to how the lyrics of all those house tunes were about being abandoned by someone you thought loved you but had been instrumentally using you

or the queer film festival entries about how without a difference-powered dynamic or a reproductive imperative so much of your social-sexual value came down to ability to perform superficial features of youth and wealth and beauty and life was hellish otherwise

oops