calloutqueen:

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calloutqueen:

I really like that one fight on Jersey Shore like season 1 when Sammy is crying and taking her hair extensions out while Ronnie is naked in a towel

YES, PERFECT. there’s something so ridiculously interesting to me about how the very specific brand of gender performance on jersey shore interacts with their loose cannon lifestyle. like, they always have one eye on the ball with how they look, they’re always paying attention to their role as woman/man (as they so strictly define sexual difference), even when they’re skull-dragging someone to the floor or have mascara tears all the fuck over their face. all action is mediated through like ten steps of protecting the facade, even if that means very quickly dismantling and reformatting it. “i’m putting vaseline on my face, i’m taking my earrings out, I’m putting my hair up, and i’m beating the crap out of her.”

my fav scenes are always the ones where you see a grainy cctv montage of them getting ready for a night out from the pov of the mirror, i could honestly watch just that for the full hour. but then yeah, something about the slow drunken/hungover disrobing too, peeling away the artifice. like, everyone in the world can see you as you are now so who are you dressing up for? it’s somehow more about the ritual and about upholding a level of pristine artifice for a certain length of time than about “fooling” anyone that that’s what you “really” look like?

the show is just so interesting to think about as a cultural artefact. it’s also just really fun and stylised and over-produced and inauthentic and i luv it and idgaf.

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