Mary Rose Museum's Queer Lense

Oh my god, that has at least given me a laugh.

What a load of utter and complete shite.

What I want to know is how queer people feel about nits?

For the most part, no, it will be student volunteers and interns.
Museum staff will be busy doing the actual work that needs doing and one of the things will be looking after volunteers and finding things for the useless ones to do that do as little harm as possible to the functioning of the museum and its collections.
You can see how this might have happened.

I've just been a googling and I think it was her. Dark haired and quite buxom. I didn't speak to her, she spoke to the whole year and our parents. It was a thing at the Town Hall to give us our o level/gcse certificates. I may have shook her hand. I wish I remembered it better, but it was nearly forty years ago 😲 I remember thinking beforehand that it was an odd choice, we're in the NW and miles from the sea, but she was really interesting. We were very lucky to have had her.

A couple of years ago during school hols I visited the Natural History Museum in Oxford. They had a visiting Queer exhibition off the the side of the main museum that nobody went into.

I did poke my head around the door briefly and nabbed a leaflet that listed a selection of exhibits. Funniest one was a support plushie lent to the exhibition by a queer student from the Uni.

Less funny were historical artefacts such as tribal headwear reinterpreted as queer through an entirely modern lens.

I sometimes wonder if this queering stuff is all one big pisstake. People get paid to write this nonsense?

It is not trans people who subvert norms they want to maintain them! So annoying this nonsense gets spouted.

Oh wow. I found the museum utterly fascinating but this is just drivel, isn't it!

I was going to try and parody the nit comb bit. But, actually, it's beyond parody.

Here it is in it's full navel-gazing, ummm, glory:

The most common personal objects that we found on the Mary Rose were nit combs. There were 82 in total. These nit combs would have been mainly used by the men to remove nits from their hair, rather than using the comb to style their hair (which would have usually been covered up by a hat). However, for many Queer people today, how we wear our hair is a central pillar of our identity. Today, hairstyles are often heavily gendered, following the gender norm that men have short hair, and women have long hair. By ‘subverting’ and playing with gender norms, Queer people can find hairstyles that they feel comfortable wearing.

Ummm... And queer people finding hairstyles they're comfortable with (just like non-queer people do, remarkably) has what to do with nits, exactly?

And probably more than a few others.

No, that would be the Pitt-Rivers.

Was it actual Margaret Rule?

I met a few people who dived on it, would love to have met her!

I'm embarrassed for they/them.

The lady who dived on the wreck. Gave a talk at my school. She was fascinating. I'm going to try to find her name. She was also short and round, it was a brilliant realisation to me that people that shape could still do stuff that was adventurous.

That really is deeply pointless, isn’t it?
On the bright side, it’s not in anyone’s way, it’s just a page on the website. I thought you were going to say you had visited today and they had stuck pride flags over everything and replaced the informative interpretation panels with tendentious and ahistorical ones.

This is a mirror. Many LGBTQ people look in or have mirrors.
This is a ring. Many LGBTQ people also own rings.
This is a boat. Historically and today there are many examples of LGBTQ people who have sat on or even sailed in boats.

FASCINATING