Surely I can fixate on Summer Glau or Aunt Petunia without notions of gender?
Yes, which is exactly my point. It doesn't have to be "gender" that drives our fixations/squees. As my list of body types indicated, any of those tropes could be non-"gendered" as well. As the inclusion of Shamu and the mailbox indicated, our squees don't even need to be human, sentient, or organic.
But squees they are, and squees they should be.
My pragmatic ideal (in short) would be a world in which there are differences, but none of them lead to unjust social relations. I'm well aware of the problems with such a vision (e.g, it sounds like a consumerist fantasy land), but I suppose I can live with them. And besides, I've got to eat some lunch before getting back to work, so... :)
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Date: 2008-03-26 05:24 pm (UTC)Yes, which is exactly my point. It doesn't have to be "gender" that drives our fixations/squees. As my list of body types indicated, any of those tropes could be non-"gendered" as well. As the inclusion of Shamu and the mailbox indicated, our squees don't even need to be human, sentient, or organic.
But squees they are, and squees they should be.
My pragmatic ideal (in short) would be a world in which there are differences, but none of them lead to unjust social relations. I'm well aware of the problems with such a vision (e.g, it sounds like a consumerist fantasy land), but I suppose I can live with them. And besides, I've got to eat some lunch before getting back to work, so... :)