I miss you dude

YES

ITS GOOD I HAD FIERD ICE CREAM YUM YUM

ME EITHER

you keep it real miss HAWII ESPECIALLY WHEN IT RIPE HECK NO DONT LIKE RIPE MYSELF MISS HAWII HAVE A GREAT VACTION

Well you enjoy yourself miss hawwii i want to go on a cruse hopefully before the end of the year

Brandon lied and deceived others in grave matters. Is that the stuff of heroism?

This context makes “man-made horrors” make even more sense now! (cheers in transfem polsci major)

Still an incredible analysis! hope you are doing ok. wishing lots of Art making in your life, whether you keep it private or not💕

Man i miss this guy ...

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I lovvvve Flamboyant. As a gay man. It speaks to me lol and as a cis man I can throw my voice like that too so they could still do T, but I hope they don’t

I’m a cis female & I feel the same way about the fertility fixation. Thank you for posting this. I am so much more informed than I was before.

ohohhhh great breakdown!

Hey I hope you're doing better. I think your analysis on Flamboyant was spot on. It had it's part in my queer awakening. I'm checking from time to time if you dove in the newer albums or sent some signs of life. Take care and wishing you well from Poland. Cheers Dylan

despite this video being a bit older, i love the way complexities are showcased

Four years ago this video of yours intrigued me enough to check out Dorian. At the time I was a major FTM egg but had a limited view of what a masculine identity could be. Dorian's art demonstrated to me both the limitations/foibles and the possibilities of masculinity. So your video most definitely has had a huge impact upon me, in terms of enabling me to better envision who I could be. Many thanks Dylan, for the fun and for your insight!

i will be back sometime to write a more in depth comment about what this video meant to me but i am in too fragile a state to compose my thoughts. i wanted to thank you again for posting the videos that you do, i really enjoy your content. i hope to see something from you soon and hear about how recovery is going, you've inspired me to open up about more things i have been through, i hope you are well, and until next time!

hello, i love our opposite career boy costumes! i have had this video collecting dust in my watch later folder for a period of time which only the gods could tell. thank you for this video, as an intersex nonbinary person who is still really attached to identifying as transmasc i find a lot of what you said about yourself to be relatable. i hope you are having a great day.

Cool film, i really felt like i was inside her head.

These comments.. can we just let straight trans guys that are masc and growing up in oppressive environments have something? Please?! This movie mirrors mine and so many other mens experiences. Just because your white, privileged, and stage presenting experience doesn’t match up it doesn’t mean you have to put this down

I saw someone on Tumblr mention this video and decided to check it out! So yeah, I'm a little late to this "party". I've IDed as and been out as a trans man for six years now, since I was a teenager, and I definitely went on... a journey when it came to how I felt about maleness, manhood, and masculinity in general. I found your thoughts on the discomfort many of us feel growing up around puberty and changing bodies interesting. Growing up, I had never really considered myself a "girl" and I never really thought of myself as being "tomboy"x-ish or wearing "boy clothes"... I just Wore Clothes that were comfortable to me and... people had issues with it. Especially once I reached puberty. It always surprised me when people would say "why do you dress like that?" or something to that effect because I really didn't know what on earth they were talking about... One of the things I struggled with the most in my transition was the fact that I am a man. I felt guilty and horrible. And even when I felt alright-ish about being a man, i still felt terrible about it... partly because there really weren't many men that I could look up to that exemplified "masculinity", either to myself (they werent the kind of man I wanted to be) or to others (they werent the kind of man others wanted me to be). I did end up trying out a "non-man" identity but it really felt so... false. I have come more to terms with it these days, and one of the things I did to help that along was to understand better that "good" masculinity comes from within me, and not necessarily from others. I've not "given up" on passing (and really I don't plan to), but I came to terms with the possibility of not quite looking or sounding or seeming like a man. It was hard... and it didn't help that a lot of my friends for a while were a "man-hating" kind of feminist for a while (contributing fir my guilt), but I'm here now. And to wrap this comment up, I do appreciate you mentioning the lack of transmasculine voices. I agree with you that there's no need for every kind of trans person to be equally talked about in every trans-related topic, but there's still a stark difference between how much transfem and transmasc folks get even mentioned. To some extent, I fell like I have to misgender myself just to participate in many, many discussions about feminism and gender and it's...... uncomfortable, to say the least. I dunno. I appreciate your insight on this topic :) On to watching more of your videos!

I keep coming back to this several years after the upload. I think its a really good analysis.

not sure how else to word this, but im feeling valid af right now. thanks

When i came out as a Non-binary/Transfemale, i didn't lose my relationship with God, but instead became a Hijra. Hari Om Namaste 🙏🏿

How do you like their newest album fanfare?

I actually first heard the "freak flag" reference from "How Can I Sing Like a Girl" by They Might Be Giants from the 90s. Two straight cis white guys from New York (they did the Malcom in the Middle theme song), but very progressive people with sometimes very dark and deep lyrics that purposely mismatch the happy-go-lucky music. That one even delves into discussion about masculinity, which is an interesting parallel. But that said, I looked it up and I guess the phrase originally comes from a Jimi Hendrix song.

Straight up you took Natalie’s amazing video and made it into some inclusion issue, the trans community really can’t not start drama!!!!

To this day this is one of my favorite videos on this playform thank you

Hi, I know you might not see this comment, but just in case, I wanted to let you know that this video is not only well thought out and well presented, the subject matter and voices like yours behind it are imperative to the discussion. I’m a mom of 2 teenagers, a daughter, my youngest, and my eldest, a trans masculine 16 year old who just started his transition. I’ve always treated my kids the same (or as much as I could), but lately I’ve been struggling with how and if I need to change my parenting approaches. This is a weird thought for me, as I’ve always thought that I would raise my kids the same regardless of gender. My eldest, like you, experienced nearly their entire childhood as a girl in the world. They know what it’s like both mentally and physically. However, despite only having started hormone therapy within the last month, they’ve completely passed as male for the last year and a half. Can I trust that he’ll always recognize his newfound privilege? That I don’t have to call it out to him? Will he recognize that as a passing male he might have to adjust his behavior towards the girls around him (I.e. know that things that were acceptable as a fellow female, like calling each other bitches, touching each other’s hair, making certain comments, etc., might make them uncomfortable coming from him.)? Also, on another note, I’ve found that I sometimes treat him differently than if he were a cis boy, mostly because I don’t want to make him uncomfortable. For instance, if I were to have a cis son, I would encourage feminine expression, and call him out if he were to reject any form of feminine expression based on his desire to maintain a masculine image, I.e. “I don’t want to wear pink,” etc. However, I know my child, although he rejects things out of a need to maintain masculinity, is doing it for different, more complex reasons. Regardless, I know he can tell when I’m holding back, and I often wonder if I should.

Your vids were so amazing for me to find a few years ago back when I was in the earlier stages of questioning things. Thanks again for making them, I hope you're hangin on out there. <3

I hope youre okay

I think she feels worried that people will be upset at her if she talks about the ftm experience, as she is a woman

Меня очень затронула история Брендона Тина! ♥️

i loved your analysis!!

Thank You So Fkn Much For This Video! You Are So MF Rad!🥳🖤

so dismissive of the struggle of butch women and masculine women. in your evaluation of how they're treated.......

I loved this movie when it came out. I also read the book.❤️🏳️‍🌈

i wish i could like this video a million times... all hail daddy dorian

Wow. This video was an excellent breakdown of the album. I love it and I've performed a lot of songs off of it.

As a pretty freshly out of the closet lesbian, i don’t know why but this album really helped me embrace myself so much. Love Dorian soooo much 💗

I always thought of Live by the sword as a metaphor for the machismo -and pride of it- a guy can feel and it being a double edged sword, like sure I defend the "traditional values" but it hurts me too along the way. its really interesting to see other interpretation I wouldve never thought of. amazing video btw

I can tell you mean well but if you don't have a uterus no opinion on the matter of Brandon Tina wanting to be a man when someone. Dresses themselves into the world we live in and they walk out their door out of their safe space. Which is their home we consider that respect by calling that person what they were present themselves? As if you dress as a woman let's consider that person of woman and start calling that person a lady And as for Brandon dressing as a gentleman let's respect him and call him a man so I think everything that you're saying is out of respect. I can tell that you mean well but I still have to give you what I have to say on this matter so so I think you're wrong about the idea of a lesbian and it could just be lesbians. No you really do not understand that unless you have a uterus yourself

I’m not very proud of something that’s an accident like that sex I was born. I’ll think it’s just us insignificant. As my nationality. or the country that I’ve been born in 😅

Thank you for this video, I am late seeing this video but it is never late to love something sooo yeah thank you for breaking down the album to let me understand dorians music more<3<3<3<3

amazing video

You're amazing. Thank you for your thought-provoking essay.

I love this video so much! It changed the way I listen to Dorian Electra and I love them so much more for it! I hope you get the inspiration to share your thoughts on Dorian's new songs Freak Mode and Sodom & Gamora

"Artistic bridge between their economics background and their current place in the queer zeitgeist" This is the funniest fucking sentence ever, i love it