Gay sitting

Universally acknowledged, at least, by queer people on the internet. Sitting etiquette is learned, not innate, and therefore the realm of adults and masters—making queer sitting the posture of the untrained child. Though the Code is officially gone, viewers have by now learned to read queerness in the body where it may not be spoken verbally.

Again, our queer-sitting case studies tick these boxes, their lack of professionalism further positioning them as failed adults. Do you remember how for a long time gay dudes were super femmey without being femboys and then like came along and they either grew beards or went full femboy?

Through the politics of the body, Idaho demonstrates how one might renounce their visible queerness in favour of the comfort and stability of capitalist success. Though Bobby may be straight, there is a queer affinity to be felt not only in his unruly, delinquent postures, but in his repressive home life.

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Likes, 86 Comments. Bobby is something sitting a burnout, and even when he secures a job, he still looks like a boy in a suit. Improper sitting is one of many seemingly arbitrary traits like walking fast and being unable to drive that the online queer community has claimed as part of queer culture.

But if we examine queer sitting in film and television, new and exciting meanings emerge. In refusing to appear gay, queer sitting resists this process of assimilation. Also I have big & typically sweaty balls and how I'm sitting is basically down to the most comfortable position for them at that moment.

Other Succession characters occasionally sit queer—most notably Shiv Sarah Snookwho welcomes a queer reading anyway —but Roman is the biggest repeat offender, seemingly incapable of ever sitting properly. This is particularly true on-screen where, as the Production Code worked to silence queer voices, filmmakers developed sophisticated ways of coding queerness through body language.

In other words: he sits queer. Improper sitting is one of many seemingly arbitrary traits (like walking fast and being unable to drive) that the online queer community has claimed as part of queer culture. Roman is a highly unqualified businessman his biggest professional disaster, a botched rocket launch, adds Freudian insult to injury, linking his professional ineptitude to his troubled sexuality.

But, as My Own Private Idaho recognises, normativity has its allures. Kinda like that I think.

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For a whole host of reasons, the body has long been a primary site of queer expression. #gay gay #relatable #gaytiktok #lgbtq”. There is a politics to posture, and it can be an act of gender rebellion for a woman to sit improperly. Klaus is a frivolous, cheeky character—the trickster of the bunch—something that aligns him with wise-cracking queer sitters like Roman Roy.

The silliness, indeed childishnessof these characters is significant. A symbol of queer sexuality and defiant genderfuckery, Hepburn is the perfect poster boy for the resistant power of queer sitting. In the workplace, improper posture can seem disrespectful—a failure or refusal to conform to corporate stuffiness.

The image of the military man evokes the kinds of bodily regimentation that queer theorist Michel Foucault describes in Discipline and Punish. TikTok video from phil_wa (@phil_wa): “Watch this hilarious video about gay sitting habits that will leave you laughing!

Logan Roy teems with disapproval; Reginald Hargreeves is distant and manipulative; the benevolent Garland Briggs is nonetheless a stern figure who slaps his son at the dinner table. While gay hustler Mike River Phoenix seems content with street life, his friend Scott Keanu Reeves is less immune to the siren song of affluence.

But examining queer sitting in film and television suggests something more radical: a rejection of strictly defined rules about what we can do with our bodies. Family and social control figure significantly in The Umbrella Academywhich features the queer-sitting character Klaus Hargreeves Robert Sheehan.

Roman, Bobby and Klaus are all queer sheep, troubled by difficult relationships—from mildly strained to overtly antagonistic—with authoritative patriarchs. These are our sitting glimpses of a pattern that continues throughout the series—in a waiting room full of chairs, Roman sits on the floor; he sits cross-legged on an ottoman; he perches on the back of a chair with his feet on the seat; he plops himself backwards over the side of a couch so his legs are thrown over the arm.