"Spanish Stonewall" suing "Non Normative Trans People"

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.

That's easy, put some food in a pink trug and some in a blue one and see which they eat from. Pink is female, blue is male and both is non binary.

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

I thought “what an excellent parody”. Silly me.

How do you know how the pony identifies though? Surely somehow we'd need to establish this?

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...)

Please tell me this was not funded by UK taxpayers.

I always thought the 'medicine and useful subjects like engeering only' argument about Universities was wrong but reading something like this, and seeing the 'academics' (heavy air quotes) who bullied Jo Phoenix at the ET, I'm inclined to reconsider.

@ 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.

one of my friends went into a regiment with a goat as mascot. And no tassels as such, but some of my lot came originally from guards regiments, at least one had a hackle😂

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

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, 😂

Yes, but did you have goats? Or tassels?

Someone beat us to it. Alas.

Probably the title needs more brackets and slashes. They love that.

“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

God i miss those days. Morning parade, knock off their hat and shout "get away" and watch them scuttle off to the guardroom for a day of being messed around by a guy with a loud voice and a pace stick.

To get back on topic - back in my day (pre don't ask, don't tell - very much if you were caught being gay, which happened IME more to women than men, you were charged with breaking Queen's Regs, possibly a bit of jail time, then out on your ear) you were more likely to encounter a lesbian than a gay or trans woman soldier (never met a trans woman soldier, I'm sure we'd have given them short shrift, tbh. We weren't "kind' it was dog-eat-dog back then)

You Shall Go To the Military Balls - Queering the Masculinity of the Military, a study of the dress, marches, and lip-synch videos of world battalions, illustrated, by Mumsnet Vipers et al.

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

I like to think in the first one the marching gradually got faster and faster.

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Ah, Redacted - one of our finest military training schools. And let's not forget Redacted corps - a disciplined, courageous group of men and women. We will never see their like again.
If you get tired of doing the shouting in the recruits' faces with spittle flecks thing, or making them drop and give you ten, I'm very happy to pick up the slack.
Just so you know.

I volunteer in some capacity - in my day i used to be in charge of recruits at [redacted] for the [redacted] corps.

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

And "Blowing kisses at the enemy: against the Geneva Convention or legitimate hostility?"

Is that his real name? Normative determinism of the day..(Robert Bullets/Pellets)

Maybe one of the chapters could be on 'military uniform with the most feminine essence'?