Or rather, these things interest me as femslasher, but as a lesbian, I'm pretty much interested in the CJ Creggs of the world.
On re-reading this, I'm realizing that this sums up exactly my engagement with characters like Madison Sinclair and the Cuckoos. They're not the sort of people I desire--for one thing, I prefer brunettes--but they "excite me textually and symbolically" as, like the skirt, they are semiotically coded as objects of desire--I recognize them as what I'm supposed to desire as a het male, as a sort of romantic comedy prize or "win" status. I tend to talk a lot about "the purity of the archetype" when these issues come up. Which is part of what makes a Mac/Madison or Emma/Kitty dynamic, putting these types of characters up against the characters that I a) identify with and b) actually do desire myself.
Only, somehow, I end up to be way more invested in the textual/symbolic excitement than in my own actual meatspace desires. I mean, I can't even remember what (the actress who plays) Madison Sinclair looks like beyond the blonde hair).
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On re-reading this, I'm realizing that this sums up exactly my engagement with characters like Madison Sinclair and the Cuckoos. They're not the sort of people I desire--for one thing, I prefer brunettes--but they "excite me textually and symbolically" as, like the skirt, they are semiotically coded as objects of desire--I recognize them as what I'm supposed to desire as a het male, as a sort of romantic comedy prize or "win" status. I tend to talk a lot about "the purity of the archetype" when these issues come up. Which is part of what makes a Mac/Madison or Emma/Kitty dynamic, putting these types of characters up against the characters that I a) identify with and b) actually do desire myself.
Only, somehow, I end up to be way more invested in the textual/symbolic excitement than in my own actual meatspace desires. I mean, I can't even remember what (the actress who plays) Madison Sinclair looks like beyond the blonde hair).