ORVILLE PECK is good at EVERYTHING.

I love me some Orville Peck. I want him to rail me against a wall behind a Rite Aid in Minnesota at two in the morning on a Thursday. I know, eerily specific, but hey, you are already here so let's go. I also love men who are absolutely unafraid of doing anything that may appear to be feminine or 'gay'. THAT is a man. The rest are just mice.

The unbearable fragility of the hyper masculine is something that never ceases to amaze me. I have seen the most Macho/Masculine/Manly men do the gayest shit ever and all I want to do is kiss them (and grab their dicks to see if they're hard). Seriously. Toxic masculinity has certainly fucked up with more than one male brain. There's nothing that screams self-assurance louder than doing something that you have no idea how it works and that screams 'cast against type'. Something like what Orville is doing here: did you ever picture him doing Trixie's (or anybody else's) makeup?? He does it because he sees it as a challenge: something that he feels he can be good at doing (self-efficacy at its best). More Masc4Masc idiots should try it. It'd be good for their souls. And for their Grindr profiles.

Would I ask every man I know to get in a corset and sing Carmen's Habanera aria? No. But nothing spells 'insecurity' as not doing something because it's too 'gay' or too 'feminine' while screaming they are 'real men'.  Real men (gay or straight) are not afraid of things that are unfamiliar to them or that are considered 'not masculine' because they have never -ever- given those things a second thought. Their notion of being a man is not tied to the perception that others have of them. To them, appearing 'weak' does not correlate to femininity, but many a hypermasculine man sees anything that is socially deemed 'feminine' as gay and therefore weak. And you know that most of those macho men out there fear appearing weak. Just ask any Repug. Brian Sims was juts rocking some red dress in some Pride event. He could fuck me while wearing that dress any time, because the dress does nothing to make him less hot or less of a man. The essence of being a man is... being a man.

Also, every time Orville says he's a M.U.A (Mwaah! in Orvillespeak) I want to do bad things to him. Which does not come as a surprise.

XOXO

P.S. This was a truly undervalued series. I love they did a wrap up movie. If you have HBO, watch it.

Happy Pride!