My very earliest exposure to genre prejudice was "If it's science fiction, it can't be good; if it's good, it can't be sf." And the whole "queer het" thing just strikes me as one more example of the same.
I love genderfuck as much as the next cranky feminist, and I love how butch Kara on BSG is, but I'm not seeing why that disqualifies Kara/Lee from being het except that some slashers are really convinced they don't like het, even when they do. Which showed up with Buffy/Spike, too.
And:
To be honest, I suspect that, as one of the commenters to the "queer het" post pointed out, our prejudices are shaped by the circles in which we read -- that is, I have a high opinion of authors who write both het and slash because that's the circle I've been reading in for years now, and I've figured out what and whom I like.
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Date: 2005-03-30 01:03 pm (UTC)I love genderfuck as much as the next cranky feminist, and I love how butch Kara on BSG is, but I'm not seeing why that disqualifies Kara/Lee from being het except that some slashers are really convinced they don't like het, even when they do. Which showed up with Buffy/Spike, too.
And:
To be honest, I suspect that, as one of the commenters to the "queer het" post pointed out, our prejudices are shaped by the circles in which we read -- that is, I have a high opinion of authors who write both het and slash because that's the circle I've been reading in for years now, and I've figured out what and whom I like.
Yeah.