When viewed as the historical wellspring of female subordination, a social contract that no longer binds, a romantic commitment that will likely be rescinded, and an arrangement with no identifiable social benefits, marriage seems less a workable institution than an engrained superstition, and today’s wedding expenditure become truly incomprehensible.
Jaclyn Geller, Here Comes the Bride, p. 313
I love a snarky author.
the world of television is not quite so bizarre and repressive once we admit that it is the realm in which we allow our monsters to come out and play
(Horace Newcomb & Paul M. Hirsch, “Television as a Cultural Forum,” 564)
“what happens in cultural reception goes beyond the traditional opposition of homo and hetero, as queer reception is often a place beyond the audience’s conscious "real life” definition of their sexual identities and cultural positions"
(Alexander Doty, “There’s Something Queer Here,”)
Not only will I stare. I want my look to change reality.
bell hooks, “The Oppositional Gaze”
Not only will I stare. I want my look to change reality.
the Internet is where we live. It’s not a place we go to anymore; it’s a layer over everything. I live in and for screens
the Internet is where we live. It’s not a place we go to anymore; it’s a layer over everything. I live in and for screens
Much of the literature on fan fiction sees slash fiction as transformative because of its imposition of a queer framework on heteronormative texts. While I do not disagree that this is one way fan fiction can be transformative, it is a mistake to believe that slash is inherently more transformative than het or gen fic just because of its queering of canon.
Emily Regan Willis, Fannish discourse communities and the construction of gender in “The X-Files” (via fanhackers)
Much of the literature on fan fiction sees slash fiction as transformative because of its imposition of a queer framework on heteronormative texts. While I do not disagree that this is one way fan fiction can be transformative, it is a mistake to believe that slash is inherently more transformative than het or gen fic just because of its queering of canon.
The erotic herterosexual romance, with content that is sexually appealing and stimulating to a large number of women, came into existence during the 1970s, when the social climate combined with a distribution strategy that put these romances into retail outlets that legitimatized them for mass consumption by women… Their legitimacy was further enhanced by the fact that stories were allowed to evolve as erotica without much notice and under the guise of a different label—romance.