I was about ready to get behind the "queer het" category because I've been working on something that has a bunch of het stuff that really is pretty queer (too complicated to explain, but sci-fi shows open up a lot of gender possibilities). But then damned_colonial's examples seemed to be more what I'd call "good het." It seems almost as if, when heterosexuals (or "heterosexual" texts) have opinions about gender, that makes them "queer" by her definition.
(The only thing I can think of that makes Lee/Kara "queer" is the fact that Starbuck was a dude in the original series. Is the fact that their relationship doesn't fit the most rigid hetero-normative gender stereotypes of our culture [ours, mind you, not their own] enough to make it "queer"? Not many "straight" relationships left in that case.)
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Date: 2005-03-30 02:08 pm (UTC)I was about ready to get behind the "queer het" category because I've been working on something that has a bunch of het stuff that really is pretty queer (too complicated to explain, but sci-fi shows open up a lot of gender possibilities). But then
(The only thing I can think of that makes Lee/Kara "queer" is the fact that Starbuck was a dude in the original series. Is the fact that their relationship doesn't fit the most rigid hetero-normative gender stereotypes of our culture [ours, mind you, not their own] enough to make it "queer"? Not many "straight" relationships left in that case.)