Meta Wednesday!

[jakia]

Let's talk about meta!  Discuss any and all meta-related things here!

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Re: Sugar and Animal Prints

[likeasouffle]

Kurt also wears animal prints sometimes! Like in The First Time when he's hanging out on Blaine's bed, and during the Halloween flashback.

Re: Sugar and Animal Prints

[jakia]

Exactly! Is animal print related to sex? Or is it a form of camouflage? And what does it mean that Kurt and Sugar (and Mercedes I think? I need to double-check that) are the only ones we really see wearing it?

Re: Sugar and Animal Prints

[likeasouffle]

Do you think Kurt's animal brooches are related? (Hippo, zebra, etc.) I feel like he wears them when he's trying to boost his confidence (attending Dalton for the first time, looking for sheet music for his NYADA callback...) So maybe the animal print is also about trying to be tougher or more confident. Sugar seems to thrive off of applause (even if she has to pay for it, she said once) so maybe she's insecure. And Kurt was feeling very unsure in that scene in 3x05. He asked if he was sexually boring.

Re: Sugar and Animal Prints

[likeasouffle]

Santana wears animal prints in Sexy three times! Black and grey zebra, purple leopard, and purple zebra. This is the episode where she first starts to admit her feelings about Brittany.

Re: Sugar and Animal Prints

[jakia]

Hmm, now I'm starting to think animal prints = something to do with sex. Maybe desiring sex? Or wanting sex but not knowing how to say it? (Santana wears animal prints in Sexy when we learn she wants a relationship with Brittany, Kurt wears animal prints in The First Time when we find out he's been thinking about going all the way with Blaine. And yet, both Sugar and Mercedes wear animal prints all the time...

Maybe it has something to do with attention, both sexual and emotional? Kurt wants someone to pay attention to him sexually, Santana wants more than just sex with Brittany, and both Sugar and Mercedes both just want someone, anyone, to pay attention to them.

Re: Sugar and Animal Prints

[secretagentlaura]

On a whim, I googled the significance of wearing animals prints, and found a few interesting things about leopard print:

- a long, long time ago, animals prints were a way of signifying propersity and status, just as displaying actual animal trophies were
- animal prints started appearing in modern fashion during the women's movement in the 1940's
- leopard print, in particular, was associated with female sexual empowerment in the 1950's
- in the 1960's, it became a little popular within the free love movement, and onward in time, more strongly associated with the androgyny and cross-dressing in the Rock n Roll/punk movements.

Re: Sugar and Animal Prints

[likeasouffle]

That's all really interesting. Sexual empowerment works for Santana when she's freaking out about her relationship with Brittany, and it works for Kurt when he's thinking about going all the with Blaine. (And maybe it also goes with the androgyny aspect for him, since later on Sebastian throws gender-related insults at him?) Does it work for Sugar? We don't really know much about her.