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Every time I see someone try to say John’s ‘more feminine features’ came out in the 70s, I want to bloody scream.

I would really like to know what people you see every day that has convinced you that a underfed, heroin riddled skeletal frame is what counts as ‘feminine features’. 

The man was bulimic, lived off of heroin and was depressed as all fuck… but okay, sure, keep telling yourselves that’s ‘his natural feminine features’.

Just kindly never talk to me.

I just realized why this further annoys me, literally just…

When shit like this happens in the modeling industry it’s ‘horrifying’ and ‘needs to stop’.

Happens to a man in an emotionally and mentally abusive relationship?

Suddenly it’s ‘attractive’ and ‘his feminine features coming out’. 

John Lennon was not healthy in the 70s. At all. Physically, emotionally or mentally. Gushing and cooing over it, in any way, is disturbing. 

Physical ‘features’ that come out as result of self-starvation, drug and alcohol abuse, depression and deteriorating relationships/being in an abusive relationship are not attractive. They are symptoms and silent cries for help.

February 27, 1964 at EMI Studios (Abbey Road) / June 12, 1964 Adelaide press conference

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Reminder that polyamorous people:

remain polyamorous even when they’re dating only one person or nobody, in the same way a bi/pan person is still bi/pan when they’re not dating someone of the same gender

are often socially ostracized and suffer discrimination and aggression, including things like being fired or kicked out of their parents’ house for being polyam

don’t have marriage rights or many other legal protections anywhere in virtually the entire world

are inherently queer. They aren’t just sometimes also queer in addition to being polyamorous - polyamory is queer

cannot believe there are other people out there called the same thing as me... this is my name lol get your own

this yellow submarine scene always makes me laugh

If you're celebrating Biden's win, consider celebrating by donating to a bail fund, planned parenthood, or the Navajo Water project.

Your action to help the marginalized shouldnt end at presidential candidates and voting.

“You guys only hate Yoko because she’s not a white! Because she’s a woman!”

And yet I adore and feel sympathy, empathy for May Pang, who actually seemed to care for John and wanted him happy, wanted him and encouraged him to be around old friends and family, was warm to Julian, felt for Cynthia, wanted John to become more independent and sure of himself, and had a huge distaste for John’s substance abuse. She cried for him not being able to reunite with Paul, when he seemed so excited, because Yoko pulled her strings and he was back in her clutches (even though May told him not to go back, don’t go see her, and he simply told her he’d be fine– yeah right) and I’ll be bloody shallow– May was beautiful.

So no, majority of us don’t like her because she’s not white and because she’s a woman. Majority of us despise her, or simply cannot support her because of how manipulative she was/is, she stalked both Paul and John, she harassed John, she got him on heroin, she isolated him, she fed into his impulsive, irrational anger and cruelty towards Paul, she was controlling, cruel to Julian and Cynthia, entitled, brought out the worse in John, enabled John’s substance abuse even though she knew it made him violent and unstable because he could be easier to handle when out of it, picked the woman John was to have an affair with and forced them to keep tabs and played puppet master, plays widow even though she’d moved on months before John was unfortunately killed and there were plans to divorce, and then had that man move right in and wear John’s clothes, cremated John even though he vehemently opposed it, didn’t invite any close family or friends to the ceremony, acted like Paul never helped her even though HE DID, made Julian tell Sean John died, wouldn’t give Julian many things of his dad and so Paul had to help buy back a lot of his things to give to Julian, okay'ed putting John’s bloody clothes and glasses up to be gawked at, has never ONCE apologized for anything she’d done, she’s a proud and open sexist(men are subservient and all women of the world are ni**ers), and to this day still uses John and his name. And if I’ve missed anything I’m sorry there’s just so much vitriolic bullshit this woman has done and behaved like.

It’s all very convenient how just, all that she’s done is simply forgotten or whitewashed because you can’t fathom a woman, a woman from a minority, could be, can be a horrible person, and that’s simply why she isn’t liked or supported.

As a woman who is a minority, I think you’re willfully ignorant and stupidly stubborn.

She’s a vile, scummy human being and the fact the lot of you defend her and try to White Knight for her simply because she’s got a pussy, and isn’t white, is embarrassing. You’re near as embarrassing and pathetic as those who openly and proudly stan Amber Heard.

And you cannot change my mind.

“John loved his Uncle George, who was a big soft-hearted gentleman. He could speak fluent French and was a wonderful artist who’d won scholarships at school.

He was very attentive to John. He bought him his first bicycle and would take him for walks into the Woolton countryside and tell him about nature.”

“He was well read and would read entire books out loud to John.”

“He was particularly fond of John and when the boy was four and a half years old, taught him to read by reciting the headlines from the Liverpool Echo to him. He also taught John how to draw and paint and bought him his first mouth organ.”

Oh god.  I find Uncle George’s death absolutely one of the saddest parts of John.  I think it changed his life so much.  And he barely speaks about him.   (Or when he does it’s often as part of this pattern of loss and grief that would last all his life, not really about his uncle in particular.)

I’d be so interested to know how much Paul and John ever spoke about him, but especially when John was young. When Paul talks about their connection it’s always ‘we’d lost our mums’ - and I know it’s a huge thing between them, I am not trying to lessen Julia’s death - but when they first knew each other John hadn’t lost his mum. But he’d already lost his father-figure, aged 14, the parental figure he was closest to by all accounts.  And lost him in a similar way - not the exact circumstances, but where he was kept somewhat removed from it - they didn’t tell him for a few days until he came home from holiday - and he felt shame/guilt about his initial reaction which was nervous laughter.  In some ways it’s more the mirror image with Paul’s situation than Julia is - although admittedly not the mirror image in how much emotional importance John puts on it.  I wish we had so much more information about it.  I really wonder if he and Paul talked about it at that time, or if he was able to be open about his feelings with himself, much less with Paul.

(I also wonder if Paul knew that when John said that heartless thing about ‘how can you sit there with your mum dead’, it was coming from a place where John did know some of how he was doing that, of being forced to get on with things, despite this huge loss in your life, that strange sense of unreality.  I’m not saying that makes it better, it’s still a very cruel thing to do.  But I think it changes colour a little bit.)

And all the evidence there is suggests that John was really close with George.  He supported John in basically all the things he loved: books, writing, art, music.  He bought him his dog.  There’s a lovely thing Mimi says about them leaving her a chocolate bar and a note that said ‘have a happy day’ while they went off for their days out.  And John leaving George notes asking him to come and tuck him into bed.  When he died, didn’t John keep George’s coat and wear it everywhere for years after?  But there is so little weight to him in John’s emotional story.  And I just never know if John didn’t talk about him because it was just one thing that the press and his terrible biographers left him alone about, so he didn’t feed it to them, or if he genuinely didn’t connect with it very much.

Every biographer rushes over Uncle George’s death to get to Julia, and I think some of that is because John’s emotions rush over it, to get to Julia.  But he raised John from 4 to 14.  I think it’s easy to forget that calling him ‘Uncle George’ doesn’t mean he wasn’t his dad in a lot of ways that matter.