does she really? i had no idea! and to think that i used her heavily in my queer female space article. LOL. she never said she hated it... *ponders*
i like the chesspiece idea and for me (as a straight girl :-) the interesting thing is that all of us are exploring queer parts of ourselves and anti-heteronormative ideas and fantasies. Which doesn't mean that it is exactly the same. Zvi wrote a great post arguing that we straight women all talk about queerness and are all touchy feely yet she's getting no sex :-) Seriously, though, there definitely *are* differences in personal investment and such, in living and acting out one's queerness, just like the term queer of course for all its wonderful plurality is always in danger of being overly generalizing and thus lose any effectiveness whatsoever.
But then any two queer women will probably approach and "use" slash in different ways as well, so I don't think that actually destroys the theory at heart.
now, of course, i need to find out why mary thinks it's rubbish!!! :-)
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i like the chesspiece idea and for me (as a straight girl :-) the interesting thing is that all of us are exploring queer parts of ourselves and anti-heteronormative ideas and fantasies. Which doesn't mean that it is exactly the same. Zvi wrote a great post arguing that we straight women all talk about queerness and are all touchy feely yet she's getting no sex :-) Seriously, though, there definitely *are* differences in personal investment and such, in living and acting out one's queerness, just like the term queer of course for all its wonderful plurality is always in danger of being overly generalizing and thus lose any effectiveness whatsoever.
But then any two queer women will probably approach and "use" slash in different ways as well, so I don't think that actually destroys the theory at heart.
now, of course, i need to find out why mary thinks it's rubbish!!! :-)