#the gender/sexuality stuff is so weirdly underanalyzed in this book

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Not the Life has interesting parts in it, but I wish that someone would approach in-depth biography of My Chem from a queer/trans perspective. Like it is completely unthinkable to me that this section discusses Gerard’s frustration about being seen as more mainstream while recording Conventional Weapons, but does not bring up how gender performance affected that perception at all:

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Gerard goes ‘I cut my hair and wore a tie and got offers to be on men’s magazines and I felt trapped.’ That’s absolutely about him being seen as gender-conforming for the first time in his career and hating it! 

Especially notable is that 2 chapters previously, Bryant discusses Mexico City attacks on emo youth that associated themselves with MCR. He explicitly names homophobia and enforcement of gender norms as the driving force. There are dots to be connected here!

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#gerard way #my chemical romance #not the life it seems #mcr tag #the gender/sexuality stuff is so weirdly underanalyzed in this book #there's stuff said that bryant just completely breezes past #transgay mcr biography when #also did you know you can add alt text in desktop but you have to use the html editor. extremely annoying.