Ultimately, there is No Eternal Feminine, surely
Hmmmm: not sure what I think about this: In search of their feminine side: Can a show put on by two gay men really reflect what it's like to be a woman? Maddy Costa finds out.
And okay, it does sound as though it's not going to be all Cage-aux-Follerie about GLAMAH (although that does seem to be a motif) and that it is taking on board that
'Femininity' means something different for straight women, for gay women, for straight men and for gay men, and for people of different ages."
but, on the other prickly paw, I cringe when somebody invokes 'all that archetypal feminine stuff'.
However, there does seem to be a sense in there of the contradictions, and there is a women involved, who sounds like My Kind of Gal:
Lame is also suspicious of what she describes as "the nostalgification of femininity that has been happening in the past few years. It's developed into this bizarre cult of cupcakes and crafts. I can't say I don't enjoy that, but I'm interested in feminist cupcakes, in radical knitting." That's why she is keen to expose the "gory side of an excessive idea of femininity, the primping and poking and physical monstrosities that women put themselves through".
I'm also intrigued that the people putting this on see femininity as downgraded both in contemporary gay culture and in lesbian culture - described as 'femme-phobia'.
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