Happy Birthday Queenie

Happu birthday @Queenie

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Happy Birthday @Queenie .

I hope you have a great day.

Hey @Queenie Happy Birthday

Hope it's a good year ahead

All I can is a big WOW!!!! I was blown away by all your thoughtful messages on my special day. I had a lovely day being spoiled and treated like the Queen (well I am aren't I?).

Thank you so so much friends! x

Happy Birthday Generation @Queenie.

So thrilled to read that your off line life is going really well and you are connecting with people face to face.

My friends have brought me all up to date with Generation Queenie.... and my 2 faves are Bette, and Shane's wife. Reeba! Oo la la. So cheesey and they plagiarized so much from Queer as Folk, but the gurls still gotta have their own show.

Corny

@Queenie how do you feel about arm pit hair?

No need to answer or reply - I am merely giving you Sunday Thinking Material. The Finlee, Finlay character really has embraced it hasn't she.

When I was on the ward last year, I must say, that similar to how bums are back thanks to the Kardashians, and those half wedgie cozies, I did notice that arm pit hair is in vogue.

Now that you've finished watching Generation Q I am sure like me, you are feeling your age. According to Work In Progress, to call yourself a lesbian isn't hip. The millenials want us to call ourselves Queer Dykes.....

Hope you are dry and toasty

Corny

Hey there @Corny , armpit hair, bleurgh! I don't see why being au naturale has come back into vogue... just wrong on so many levels! After watching that I'm definitely feeling my age (I never thought I'd say that! ). It certainly ages me that's for sure!

Queer Dykes sounds so derogatory IMO. It sounds like sexuality is a dirty word almost. For me 'Queer' and 'Dyke' are different labels entirely and don't belong together. I much prefer the tested and true title of Lesbian (aka The L Word).

Just my two cents

Well my friend thinks that Finlay's was pasted on for the show, but I told her hey, on the ward it was like a hipster thing, I think that black fluff is real gurl.

Peeps like us @Queenie, we aren't Millennials and we aren't Boomers......we are caught between their 2 worlds.

If I described myself as a Queer Dyke I think that I would burst out laughing because I would feel like such a try hard. When I was growing up Dyke was derogatory, and straight chicks used the word to describe a women they found ugly, and didn't conform to what their man deems attractive, which apparently is terrifying to them.

But I have noticed in the last few years that a lot of people use it similar to how the n word is used by some African American people to describe themselves, and also how cripple is used by people with physical disabilities to describe themselves, as a way to take back ownership from the bullies and claim it as their own. I guess use of words has context in place and time, but it all seems to keep changing.

For me Queer has lost its meaning. Pretty much everyone says they're Queer these days. My friend emailed me a funny article on pansexuality that spoke about how it has been appropriated by a lot of straight women who kissed a girl once upon a time and I think that it made some good points. LGBTI are either vilified or used to get votes or make money for non-queer people by enhancing someone's image by making them appear modern, liberal and adventurous, when underneath they are still deeply conservative.

I think that homophobia is still alive and well, and people disguise it.

Hope that you are dry and toasty

Corny