"Spanish Stonewall" suing "Non Normative Trans People"

Indeed. Swimming Certificates and Brownie Badges are also acceptable, as is Ownership of Purple Pencil (First Class, with Oak Leaves). No et al left behind is our motto!

We have standards to maintain!

Edited to add: If anyone knows where to get the pattern for this tea cosy, I'd be very grateful.

MagpiePi. Nice long qualification to put in the et al list, too. Well done, that wumman.

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Edited to embolden.

Also apologies the Greek blokes/girls appear to be not connected to the military at all! I'm so sorry, I've done a he-rail by accident.

Yeah but are they prepared to put the work in?

I envisage starting with an holistic approach. Just using my hands to gain a sense of how smooth the oil feels. Obviously ignoring the play of the muscles under the skin. Then using my fingertips to tease out any localised differences. Finally, ensuring that I can separate natural oils from bodily secretions by, possibly, using my tongue to gauge the level of saltiness.

In my defence, this is my fourth night away from home and I may have had a drink or 4.

OK! I am completely objectifying these guys but let's pretend that we never do that.

Oh that's made me so happy: Glinner the Armadillo.😁 He's not confused about his pronouns either.

There's always a billion 'et als'. We will also be able to stretch the length of the et al list by adding in all of our qualifications, some of which may be very obscure but highly relevant.

But Beetle the video is three minutes.

looks sadly on and wonders how to be an et al. Maybe can offer a purple pencil?

Well that's half an hour of my life I'm never getting back.
You really shouldn't have said that...the video was only 3 minutes

“To those who choose to follow in our footsteps”: making women/LGBT+ soldiers (in)visible through feminist “her-story” theater

Building on Judith Butler’s understanding of visibility as “the object of continuous regulation and contestation,” art/aesthetics studies in international relations, and feminist theater studies, we identify feminist “her-story” theater as a unique site where Western “gender-/sexuality-inclusive” soldiering is visibilized, contested, and subverted. Drawing on ethnographic observations of two award-winning dramas, interviews with artists and military hosts, and findings from a wider research project on contemporary British military culture, we reveal the key role of heteronormative and patriarchal cultural discourses in reproducing the ambivalent positionalities of women/LGBT+ soldiers. We argue that the very visibility of women/LGBT+ soldiers on the stage paradoxically operates to make the complexities of – and struggles against – masculinized heteronormative military cultures invisible. Furthermore, despite artists’ attempts to dissociate empowerment through soldiering from the problematic context of modern conflicts, “her-story” theater ultimately entrenches gendered/racialized hierarchies that normalize Western military interventions. We conclude that only through sustained feminist reflection on the contours of “imagined” futures of female/LGBT+ soldiering can this persistently problematic (in)visibility be productively disrupted.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14616742.2022.2097936

Well that's half an hour of my life I'm never getting back.

<ticks that job off on "duty list" and adds @JanesLittleGirl 's name>

There is a rota for this particular task - just so you know. It's proved unsurprisingly popular.

I'm in for any form of masculine military fieldwork, keeping the subject still whilst, er, the research takes place. Trust me, I have hypnotised a horrified Regiment before purely with my breast movement.

My mare identified as starving so would wolf hers down before pushing the gelding she shared a field with out the way to eat his. She had to be tied up to eat as otherwise he didn't get any as he'd meekly move away and stand looking pitiful while she licked his trug clean.

Bagsy the ponies, I am getting in on this et al lark too. My relevant experience is having previously had a very randy mare who seemed to be permanently in season and couldn't walk past a field with a fella in without winking (I don't mean with her eyes...)

@ Emotionalsupportviper Thank you for the tattoos suggestion. Given the academic nature of this proposed research, I decided to check the O.E.D. for definitions of tattoos. I’d like to be completely clear. Are we talking about tattoo as in:

1. Military. A signal made, by beat of drum or bugle call, in the evening, for soldiers to repair to their quarters in garrison or tents in camp.
2. The formation of permanent marks or designs upon the skin by puncturing it and inserting a pigment
3. Beating as upon a drum; to thump, tap, or rap upon something with a succession of blows.
4. A native-bred Indian pony. Also attributive as tattoo horse, tattoo mare'*
5. An armadillo? *

I should make it clear that I am not qualified to inspect any of these so I’m probably eminently suitable. Actually, I’m willing to do anything for an ‘et al’ so thank you for asking. However, if I have a choice, please can I inspect Armadillos? I’m not very keen on the idea of having to stare at permanent pigmented marks on semi-naked men/hims/thems/etc. Not really my kind of thing IYSWIM. Maybe @JanesLittleGirl would be more suitable? She sounded very keen. 😁

*[I admit, I've never heard of 4) and 5) before. MN does provide a very broad education.]
Edited to get rid of the italics -failed.

Oh gawd it's real. I skim read that abstract feeling so impressed that you could churn out this stuff so quickly, only to see the tandfonline link at the end, 😂

“To those who choose to follow in our footsteps”: making women/LGBT+ soldiers (in)visible through feminist “her-story” theater

Building on Judith Butler’s understanding of visibility as “the object of continuous regulation and contestation,” art/aesthetics studies in international relations, and feminist theater studies, we identify feminist “her-story” theater as a unique site where Western “gender-/sexuality-inclusive” soldiering is visibilized, contested, and subverted. Drawing on ethnographic observations of two award-winning dramas, interviews with artists and military hosts, and findings from a wider research project on contemporary British military culture, we reveal the key role of heteronormative and patriarchal cultural discourses in reproducing the ambivalent positionalities of women/LGBT+ soldiers. We argue that the very visibility of women/LGBT+ soldiers on the stage paradoxically operates to make the complexities of – and struggles against – masculinized heteronormative military cultures invisible. Furthermore, despite artists’ attempts to dissociate empowerment through soldiering from the problematic context of modern conflicts, “her-story” theater ultimately entrenches gendered/racialized hierarchies that normalize Western military interventions. We conclude that only through sustained feminist reflection on the contours of “imagined” futures of female/LGBT+ soldiering can this persistently problematic (in)visibility be productively disrupted.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14616742.2022.2097936

Can I volunteer to check the consistency of the oil on those biceps?

That's easy. Making pompom look butch

https://youtube.com/shorts/VQeXdesNfPA?si=XwUlWZPQI1PxbQV

https://youtube.com/shorts/-WwIj0lBiRw?si=39Ume0HDP4S8xVjs

Elite level grandmother's footsteps