Reflections on an old wank (this is not a shallow post)

[swatkat]

Is intentional homoerotic subtext in a text inherently escapist in nature? Or, at least something that lends itself to escapism, if that's the right word? You know, a sort of 'look ma, how rad and gay I'm being', without actually having to confront the problems, and paradoxically conforming to the norms it claims to be subverting? Or is it a suggestion that human sexuality is fluid and does not fit into conventional 'gay'/'het' definitions, and therefore radical and subversive? Is it both? Or is it neither, and I have been smoking too much pot?*

* Metaphorical pot. I don't actually smoke pot. Or anything else, for that matter. I hate smoking. I don't understand why people enjoy it.**

** For some inexplicable reason, my mother believes that I smoke. Nothing will convince her that I don't, in fact, smoke. I have received lectures on how bad it is for my lungs, especially because of the asthma.

Comments

[ankhet.livejournal.com]

I was just thinking this morning about the fluidity of human sexuality and how it's a continuum of so many different aspects (gender identity, sexual identity, kink, monogomy/polyamory, etc).

...just thought I'd chime in with that.

[swatkat24.livejournal.com]

I was just thinking this morning about the fluidity of human sexuality and how it's a continuum of so many different aspects (gender identity, sexual identity, kink, monogomy/polyamory, etc).


Yes, yes, yes, and I've learnt a lot about that from fandom and fanfic.

NO. And my dad is a smoker. They've been married for 24 years. My grandfather - her dad - was a smoker. You'd think she'd know, right? It's sweet that she cares (and I wouldn't really have her any other way), but I really don't smoke! Now, what she *could* lecture me on is the ill-effects of alcohol...

Swatkat

[eska-rina.livejournal.com]

I would say that the human sexuality is fluid, and it often also is in texts. You might say that someone is heterosexual, but very few - if any - are - not even fictional characters - 100% heterosexual (or homosexual, for that matter), and some of the homoerotic subtexts probably come from these periods of... "non-heterosexualitism" (WTF? O.o).

Uhm. Dunno if I understood your question O.o