Time Warp

[fictional]

Time Warp Wives.

What do you lot think of this? I am at a loss. I never know what to make of these people. On the one hand, I admire their dedication to detail. For another, I am really into vanished worlds as well. (Hello, cosplay! Dressing up is awesome. Recreating lost worlds, equally so.) In addition, it's nice to live in a time, where people can be this weird, and not get, y'know, stoned to death or whatever. I support people's constructed, fictional lives, no matter what fashion, as long as they're not hurting anyone, - and it's great that they've been able to find people of like mind to live with etc.

BUT. They are crazy. tin. hats. Like, I get the desire, but not the 24/7 of it all, you know. Obsession can be taken too far.

Here's the other thing. It's like the male-dom thing in bdsm. Like, I've been known to find it really hot. BUT. in sex! Not in real life, right? Politically I find it to be repugnant and stupid. (Femme-dom too, for that matter, but you know what I mean.) For me, the great thing about recreation of these vanished times, means that we can keep the things we like for play, and lose the things we don't. Also I like running water, the internet, eyeglasses & contact lenses, etc etc.

I just don't know.

Thoughts?

Comments

[stakebait.livejournal.com]

I think they are way creepy, less because of the 24/7 thing than because of the Gratuitious Social Commentary. If you want to say "hey, you know I love bakelite and I hate Velcro and my hubby loves it when I cut the crust off his sandwiches, you may think it's wacky but it works for us" then I might not really want to hang around it and I worry a little about your kids, but what the hell, more power to you.

But when it turns into "these days are just so terrible because women want equality" then I start to get tetchy. To put it at the most schoolyard level possible, they dissed me first. :)

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

Word. I found the whole "I don't know who the PM is; it's just too disturbing" incredibly creepy. I also wonder what the menfolk think of this? I notice none of them were interviewed, and also they were completely spoken for by their wives. I mean, first of all, non period. Second, is it that they really believe in all this, and simply can't say it, because due to political correctness, if their wives say it, it's just a kooky choice, but if they say it, it comes across as misogynism? Or are they just along for the ride; you know, the wife's a little crazy, what can you do...etc etc.

[stakebait.livejournal.com]

You're totally right, it's off how none of the guys have a word to say for themselves. And what if these blokes get laid off or go on disability, are they still going to be glad for a wife who doesn't know how to pump her own gas?

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

You know, I sometimes get the same feeling from regency stuff, i.e. how is it possible that one thing can spawn such degress of heteronormativity, while at the same time, being such a logical home for queerness.

[stakebait.livejournal.com]

*nodsnods* Some of that I think is that the Regency aesthetic of (presumed) heterosexual maleness included things which now read as queer. Plus it is all so performative now, functionally *everyone* is in drag, and I got into it through such a queer-inclusive social context...