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This is a very cool and insightful essay about the nature of slash and slash-writers.
This particular snippet:
The interesting thing about this move into the male body, both for Rosalind and for we slashgirls, is that it is distinctly not a transgendered or genderqueer behavior. There is no desire either within or without the text to become a man, to become masculine. The desire leans rather towards being a self, free of the social constraints inherent in gender normativity. It's tempting to say that it represents a desire to abolish gender all together. But we also seem to cling to femininity.
Actually reminds me quite a bit of how I write Maladict when I do fic. I write her as gay-gay- gay, but not as trans. Despite her desire to be perceived by the world in general as male, she doesn't appear to have any interest in actually being male. Unlike Polly and the rest, I get the impression that she never used the Sock Trick, for example and I think that if she wanted to be a man (as opposed to just be disguised as one) she'd have figured that one out for herself ages ago.
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This particular snippet:
The interesting thing about this move into the male body, both for Rosalind and for we slashgirls, is that it is distinctly not a transgendered or genderqueer behavior. There is no desire either within or without the text to become a man, to become masculine. The desire leans rather towards being a self, free of the social constraints inherent in gender normativity. It's tempting to say that it represents a desire to abolish gender all together. But we also seem to cling to femininity.
Actually reminds me quite a bit of how I write Maladict when I do fic. I write her as gay-gay- gay, but not as trans. Despite her desire to be perceived by the world in general as male, she doesn't appear to have any interest in actually being male. Unlike Polly and the rest, I get the impression that she never used the Sock Trick, for example and I think that if she wanted to be a man (as opposed to just be disguised as one) she'd have figured that one out for herself ages ago.
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