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[algumaideia]

Heteromantic views on gender and homosexuality on classical Brazilian literature

What a pompous title. Ignore it because I'm a teenager studying stem on college, all the shit discussed here is from my head. Also, I'll only talk about how relationships between men were represented, there is only one classical Brazilian book that shows attraction between women and I haven't read it yet. Maybe other day.

Also for reference, my other post who gave me idea to do this one. On it, I discussed how even on a relationships between two men the authors of Bom-Crioulo (Adolfo Caminha, 1895) and O Ateneu (Raul Pompeia, 1888) seem to not be imagine how a relationship could work outside of the heteromantic moldes. Now, I'll talk about how those views on gender could have impacted the creation of the dynamics the gay couples.

I understand that the way gender was viewed back then is different from how we see it today, and this post will be full of assumptions based on the knowledge I got from high school and some youtube videos which is another reason for not taking anything I say too serious.

Now to the essay per se.

In antient Greece, a relationship between two men was not uncommon and was not frown upon if you weren't the one in "the woman's position". The reason for this "strange" way of dealing with the situation could be summerized by this phrase: “Everything in the world is about sex, except sex. Sex is about power.” and how gender is perceived because of it.

If men are seen as rational, powerful and women are seen as emotional, weak , sex an act of dominance, and subsequently desire, become attach to the masculine. Which means this action is deprived of emotions and vulnerability. That is why so many men can brag about their conquers, having sex is nothing more than a challenge, something to dominate. With this we end up having sex and sexual attraction to women being deeply linked to masculinity as they are another way to show and exert power.

Of course the way women are shamed and disencouraged when it is about sexual activities cannot be explained only by what I'm saying here, there is more nuance. However, if we look through how homosexuality is portrayed in the books by those lens much can be explained on my opinion (also I'm teenager not a researcher on the area).

But first, let's discuss why in the two book plus O Cortiço (Aluísio Azevedo, 1890) represent homosexuality with emasculated men. It is quite simple actually: if manliness is defined, to a considerable extent, by sexual attraction to women, lacking this trait makes a man incapable of being "truly mainly". Not only that but as we defined, sex is about dominance and by being attracted to men, a man puts himself on the position of being dominated, of being weak. In those simple and reductive ways of seeing gender, a gay man ends up having much more in common with a woman and that is why we get the emasculation and the feminization.

But there is a catch. Sexual attraction is not a characteristic of womanhood and if gay men are put with woman they can't express sexual attraction to men. Sexual attraction and the power game that comes should not be displayed by weak and emasculated men.

That is why the "mainly" characters on the books are the ones who show sexual attraction not the emasculated ones. Besides the ideas complement each other. Sexual attraction is a thing for men, not only that but sexual attraction to the feminine. Therefore the manly gay man shows attraction to a emasculated and feminine men.

[languagexs]

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[registoetransicoes]

[horsefigureoftheday]

The breed directory made ne curious, have you ever seen a crioulo horse figure? I would so buy one!

I love criollos, especially the short-legged variety!

Girl why are you so long??

Schleich made three criollos - 13948, 13949, and 42581:

WIA (a new German brand) has produced one criollo named Erren:

And of course Breyer has criollos: Crillo (743), Salpicado (1253), and Lanín (B-CS-10004)

[drinkthemlock]

Tag game, tagged by @werewolfetone <3

Last song I listened to - “Son of a Preacher Man” by Dusty Springfield (i know. i know)

Currently reading - for school/work I’ve been being subjected to brazilian naturalist novels (o cortiço, bom-crioulo, etc.) and for fun i’m rereading the name of the rose :)

Currently watching - not really currently but i watched mixte w my aunt and it was really nice! shame we won’t get a second season tho :(

Currently obsessed with - drawing parallels between álvares and saint-just……….. recreationally. also just second gen brazilian romantic poetry in general.

Tagging all my mutuals like @sherbertilluminated @robertdelaunay @ourlordapollo @saintjustitude @lungfishpoem @ionisable @branchus @daytrader-vader and co. + anyone else who wants to do it ;)

[kemetic-dreams]

The word creole comes from the Portuguese term crioulo, which means "a person raised in one's house" and from the Latincreare, which means "to create, make, bring forth, produce, beget".

In the New World, the term originally referred to Europeans born and raised in overseas colonies (as opposed to the European-born peninsulares). To be "as rich as a Creole" at one time was a popular saying boasted in Paris during the colonial years of Saint-Domingue, for being the most lucrative colony in the world. 

The noun Creole eventually came to denote mixed-race Creole peoples and their mixed Creole languages.

[wastedawayagaininmargaritaville]

I need someone to speak (Brazilian) Portuguese with regularly like yesterday. I can’t keep talking to myself and/or listening to music, like I’m losing this shit rapidly. I specify Brazilian cause all my teachers have been Brazilian so I don’t know shit about Portuguese from Portugal. Like I feel like I understand Portuguese from Portugal as well as I understand Crioulo from Cabo Verde. One time a Portuguese professor came to speak to our class and I s2g I had no idea what he was saying.

[zenaidedossantossatumberl]

No próximo sábado, 26 de agosto, o aguardado McDia Feliz 2023 chegará com todo o seu esplendor, e a unidade McDonald’s da Estrada do Coco está preparando uma programação excepcional para celebrar este evento grandioso. Sob a condução da Produtora Cultural e Jornalista Luzia Moraes, que tem trazido artistas e personalidades de diversos segmentos, o evento acontecerá das 14h às 20h. Na foto o renomado cantor Agnoell Crioulo, que também está na ação. Para mais informações, siga-nos no Instagram: @martagaogesteira

[semioticas]

Carlos Alberto Prates Correia (1941-2023). Grande nome do cinema brasileiro, nascido em Montes Claros (MG), o cineasta Carlos Alberto Prates Correia morreu ontem aos 82 anos. Entre seus filmes, "Cabaret Mineiro" (1979), “Crioulo Doido” (1970), “Perdida” (1975), “Minas-Texas” (1989), “Castelar e Nelson Dantas no País dos Generais” (2007) e "Noites do Sertão" (1983), baseado na literatura de Guimarães Rosa. Na imagem, Cristina Aché, Tavinho Moura, Milton Nascimento e Débora Bloch reunidos no intervalo das filmagens de “Noites do Sertão” – filme com roteiro e direção de Carlos Alberto Prates Correia e trilha sonora com composições de Milton Nascimento e Tavinho Moura.

Veja também:

Semióticas – Milton no Clube da Esquina

https://semioticas1.blogspot.com/2012/03/o-clube-da-esquina.html

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Race: jewish ethnicty: jewish nationality: israeliti! Language: german hebrew crioulo color: jewish color of eyes: jewish color

[pablohunie1993]

Você deveria interpretar melhor o que está lendo antes de tirar conclusões precipitadas. O crioulo (negro afro) e beaner ("solo una noche" escrito por um mexicano ou chileno canalhas) eu estava me referindo 'a capa fanfic tosca de WATTPAD. Mas mesmo que isto seja exclarecido sei que te pedir desculpas por esse mal entendido não vai corrigir nada ainda mais um coração ferido e que não se pode voltar no tempo, sinto muito. Pardon me

yeah i misinterpreted the senseless slur filled accusations MY BAD EVERYBODY 😍 have you tried not sending hate messages to every person who posts something other than johnzee? like this is your dozenth time doing this to me alone

[algumaideia]

@captainwaffles and @i-can-be-your-blorbo since you guys said you'd hear me <3

Anyway, I read two articles that talked about homosexuality in three books: O cortiço(1890), O Ateneu(1888) and O Bom-Crioulo(1895). I read like a third of O Bom-Crioulo and some parts of O Ateneu plus watched a video with a very complete summary of the book. So there is a chance that the information I provide here is wrong.

What I wanted to talk about is that when writing homosexual characters, in a relationship or not, the authors of those three book wrote them as falling on the espectations of heterosexual relationships of the time period. It feels like the authors could not imagine a relationshipthat would escape the molds imposed by society. Even in a relationship between two men, it is necessary to have a man and a woman, because that is simply how relationship works, another way of a relationship to work is just not possible.

First, I wanna talk about O Cortiço which is also the book I have less information. In the book there is this guy named Albino and he is really emasculated and effeminate, he works with laundry which was a woman's job, he dress as a female dancer during carnaval, his apron looked like a shirt, the women around him acted basically like he was one of them. All of this is used to imply homosexuality. As far as I know at no moment of the book Albino has a lover or explicity has a crush, he is just very feminine. And well I think this link between homosexuality and femininity is very interisting especially considering how the other two books represented homosexual relationships.

In O Ateneu, one of the characters when introducing the school to Sérgio says how, even though they are in a boarding school for boys, the students are separated by male and the weak sex, female. This character adviced Sérgio to not have a protector because then he would be seen as weak and therefore considered a woman by his peers. Sérgio ends up having some protectors. When Bento Alves becomes Sérgio's protectors he starts giving him lots of presents and at some point he gived Sérgio flowers. And in 1888 guys gave flowers to gals they were courting. Not only that but upon receiving the flowers, Sérgio says how he acted like a girlfriend should. Throught all of his relationships with his protectors Sérgio is very effeminate which again makes the link between homosexuality and femininity. But what I find interisting is how he isn't the one showing interest in other men, his protectors are, the characters who are shown to be very masculine. This creates a contradiction that is also shown in o Bom-Crioulo.

Amaro is attracted to Aleixo and this is clearly expressed in the book, however Aleixo is not attracted to Amaro. He likes the attention sure, but he doesn't really miss him, and he says that he got used to have sex with Amaro. And again in this book, Amaro is very masculine, while Aleixo is effeminate. When Amaro sees Aleixo naked for the first time he says that the boy is only lacking boobs to be a girl.

The object of desire is effeminate, but the one having the desire is very masculine. And that doesn't make much sense, since the idea is to attribuute homosexuality to femininity. This is clear because in the moment Aleixo and Sérgio leave their homosexual relationships is when they show to be attracted to a woman and then become masculine figures.

In those books, heterosexuality cannot exist in effeminate men, but at the same time men only feel attracted to other men because one shows traditional feminine traits. it is not possible to imagine a man feeling attracted to other because of masculine traits, it is not possible to write a relationship where the roles of man and woman do not exist.

In both O Ateneu and O Bom-Crioulo, homosexuality is very present but in a very heterosexual way. Not that I'm saying that more masculine guys cannot be attracted to more feminine guys and that I guy being feminine negates them being a guy. It is just that it is curious how those relationships were molded by traditional gender roles and expectations even though one gender is not even part of it.

[bulkbinbox]

escravo – crioulo, rio de Janeiro, 1864, christiano junior.

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[dykementality]

dan since you dropped todo em superdimesao i've been looping menina mulher da pele preta nonstop. any recommendations for songs that sound kind of similar?

hi kinnn 🫶🏼 the song you liked is by jorge ben jor so obviously id rec the full album ‘tabua de esmeralda’ and ‘samba esquema novo’ too. jorge ben is very quirky musically and he mixes a bunch of stuff like jazz/rock/bossa nova as well as samba subgenres. always very hearty and funny stuff very happy sounding. but im assuming u mean by other artists so here are some that i think match it rhythm/theme wise:

esse crioulo por voce se fez poeta - bebeto

desafinado - joao gilberto

flor do cerrado - gal costa

samba e amor - chico buarque

also some that dont sound exactly like it but i think if u liked that u would like these:

disfarça e chora - cartola

esperanças perdidas - originais do samba

16 toneladas - noriel vilela

pago pra ver - roberta sá e zeca pagodinho

[costaeira]

Hoje recebi a visita de Cesar Dantas, veio pegar sua obra em homenagem a Serra Grande do Crioulo - Lagarto-SE @dra_veronicdantas #pintura #arte #art #painting #o #artist #artwork #drawing #artista #dibujo #paint #n #contemporaryart #a #instaart #desenho #dise #draw #design #color #artgallery #illustration #watercolor #oilpainting #artoftheday #artecontemporaneo #colores #pinturas #artistsoninstagram #abstractart (em Lagarto, Sergipe) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoIU85dJ0Q4/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=