I really appreciated this post. And I saw a lot of my own feelings mirrored in it. I almost exclusively read and write het and f/f and I often have this weird feeling that I'm "not cool" or something because I'm not that interested in m/m slash personally. Especially since I'm interested in gender and queer theory...blah blah.
"That being said, some of the things that hold me to het, (and to a smaller degree the f/f) are pretty standard among het-fanciers at large, at least if I've been reading my meta+comments correctly. I love women, all shapes and stripes and sizes, and I want stories that feature women front and center."
This really struck a chord. My fandoms (BtVS, Firefly, Veronica Mars) all feature strong, vibrant, interesting women.
When I look over my primary ships, I see that while most of them are het ships none of them are "typical" hetero relationships. They are all about people who challenge one another. In some ways I think I am drawn to what I would call "queer het" if one takes the definition of queer to mean "a worldview that rejects compulsory Heteronormativity" and one sees Heterosexuality (with a big H) as something apart from which parts go where and having more to do with a standardized set of gendered power relations. I choose het ships that challenge the way that patriarchy thinks male/female relations should be. Because they're hot. *g*
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I really appreciated this post. And I saw a lot of my own feelings mirrored in it. I almost exclusively read and write het and f/f and I often have this weird feeling that I'm "not cool" or something because I'm not that interested in m/m slash personally. Especially since I'm interested in gender and queer theory...blah blah.
"That being said, some of the things that hold me to het, (and to a smaller degree the f/f) are pretty standard among het-fanciers at large, at least if I've been reading my meta+comments correctly. I love women, all shapes and stripes and sizes, and I want stories that feature women front and center."
This really struck a chord. My fandoms (BtVS, Firefly, Veronica Mars) all feature strong, vibrant, interesting women.
When I look over my primary ships, I see that while most of them are het ships none of them are "typical" hetero relationships. They are all about people who challenge one another. In some ways I think I am drawn to what I would call "queer het" if one takes the definition of queer to mean "a worldview that rejects compulsory Heteronormativity" and one sees Heterosexuality (with a big H) as something apart from which parts go where and having more to do with a standardized set of gendered power relations. I choose het ships that challenge the way that patriarchy thinks male/female relations should be. Because they're hot. *g*