Well, I don't think anyone's trying to tie adrogeny to homosexuality or masculinity to the Kinsey scale. Jenkins was observing that when fen slash two males, they often androgenize them--an observation with which I wouldn't automatically disagree. He posited it as an independent phenomenon contingent on the fen's desires, I think, not as a necessary element of slash.
In terms of slashiness as the element in the source text which lends itself to sexualization, I've only begun to read HJ's thoughts on that, and is not an issue which often occurs to me, as I don't really need subtext to buy a pairing (since I so often write minor character/minor character when they might never have been on the screen at the same times as each other).
Troi/Yar doesn't strike me as fraught with subtext either, although I watched the show when I was much younger and brought a different lens to the experience.
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Date: 2007-04-06 01:31 am (UTC)In terms of slashiness as the element in the source text which lends itself to sexualization, I've only begun to read HJ's thoughts on that, and is not an issue which often occurs to me, as I don't really need subtext to buy a pairing (since I so often write minor character/minor character when they might never have been on the screen at the same times as each other).
Troi/Yar doesn't strike me as fraught with subtext either, although I watched the show when I was much younger and brought a different lens to the experience.