Slash and the appropriation/objectification of The Other
This post, on the topic of female slashers writing about gay men, really struck a chord with me. A kind of annoyed, exasperated chord. So I started writing up a response, and as it got longer and longer, I realized that the most appropriate place for me to post this was in my own journal. I don't post about my opinions as often as I should in my
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Thank you, thank you, thank you for saying this.
Speaking generally about the debate as a whole (not about the specific article you link to), the oft-recurring assumption in this debate that "straight women are always straight women, while gay men are always gay men, and neither of them ever have gender/orientation identities that cross over with one another" has been puzzling me. It's been publicly pointed out, for example (by the very person I mention below), that one of the persons mentioned in the L.A. Times article who was described as a straight women is actually a bisexual with a fluid gender identity.
A lot of folks who are undergoing this type of flexibility simply don't identify themselves as transgender or transsexual (two politically charged words). I know that the average gay guy who chooses to be effeminate certainly doesn't think of himself that way. But does he feel that he has an "inner woman"? Sometimes, yes. And I would enjoy reading a novel by him that reflects this inner identification.
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