Rolly eyes. I'm not sure whether I dislike the analysis or the underlying show, but that makes me ... discontented. I don't like the idea that we have to accept the gender binary as our starting point, because I reject the gender binary as inadequate and inaccurate.
Also, what does it mean to say that the female military are more suspicious? Do they mean questionable / dubious character?
We probably don't have to accept it as the starting point, but the show overtly claims to destabilize it while - in my opinion - reinforcing it. For a text that's supposed to show a post-gender world, there is a lot of gender fail, beginning and ending with the fact that women (especially women of colour) die while white men survive.
I know that bit about suspiciousness is slightly awkward :/ It's supposed to mean, iirc, that narratively something is presumed to be wrong with them, making them more likely to abuse power / prove to be unstable.
And I'm stuck wondering whether critical gender analysis necessarily reinforces the binary opposition by assuming it, or can be useful towards undermining it.
Ah, I agree with that about BSG. Something else I gave up on fairly sharpish because I didn't like the gender politics.
I tend to think the former, mostly. I just don't know what the alternative is. It's useful for saying where you are, but not where you want to be, and a lot of the time it just turns any female portrayal of catch 22.
Sighs. I hope I'm not harshing your fandom love for women.
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Also, what does it mean to say that the female military are more suspicious? Do they mean questionable / dubious character?
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I know that bit about suspiciousness is slightly awkward :/ It's supposed to mean, iirc, that narratively something is presumed to be wrong with them, making them more likely to abuse power / prove to be unstable.
And I'm stuck wondering whether critical gender analysis necessarily reinforces the binary opposition by assuming it, or can be useful towards undermining it.
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I tend to think the former, mostly. I just don't know what the alternative is. It's useful for saying where you are, but not where you want to be, and a lot of the time it just turns any female portrayal of catch 22.
Sighs. I hope I'm not harshing your fandom love for women.
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