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Long Island Nail Salon Show and Gender Fluidity
from #175 - Corporate Steakhouse | The Tim Dillon Show · #175
7 min
Tim describes the reality show 'Salon Marton' about a Long Island nail family, riffing on a customer's musical fingernail, and jokes that masculine-presenting Long Island Italian women make him reconsider gender as a spectrum.
- Tim recommends watching 'Pile Unpolished,' a Long Island nail salon show about the Martin family.
- Long Island Italian women display masculine energy that makes Tim more open to gender fluidity arguments.
- A woman comes to the salon needing nails that 'play music' to stand out at a singing conference instead of relying on talent.
- The salon turns her fingernail into a boombox that plays her horrific song when she taps it.
- The show fascinates Tim as a window into Long Island culture, featuring characters reminiscent of Tony Soprano.
- Tim argues that transgender discussions ignore Long Island Italian women, who seem to exist on a gender spectrum.
- One salon owner describes getting a gastric sleeve after years of being heavy and isolated in her room learning nails.
- Nobody would be shocked if Long Island Italian women had male anatomy based on their appearance and energy.
- Certain Irish women become masculine-looking as they age, similar to how Long Island Italian women peak in masculine energy in their 20s and 30s.
- After watching Salon Marton, Tim wonders if radical gender theorists might be right about gender being a construct.
- Tim respects these Long Island women despite their masculine 'I don't give a fuck' dude energy, acknowledging something interesting about gender fluidity.
- Tim concludes there may be something to gender fluidity based on what he witnessed on the show, though he remains uncertain.
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