Meta: attire myself in all parts like to a man

Department of Fandom Swallowing Its Tail: the question of whether or not slash is, in fact, gay is going around again. In my most humble opinion, slash is no more gay than it is angsty or all about sex or pesto-flavored, but I’m going to defer to kattahj, who explains this much better than I ever could.

But I want to jump off of this into some work that I did this past term. I was assistant director/dramaturg for an absolutely fabulous, sexy, wonderful production of “As You Like It.” Gender and performativity and the female experience of the male body were big on my mind. And, oddly enough, I think that I'm doing the same thing with slash that Rosalind does with crossdessing.

If we accept that slash is not really about gayness in and of itself, I think that we can also perhaps say that it’s not really about men, however paradoxical that may seem. IMHO, it’s about the women writing it, and the men are merely the blank canvas, the nearby screen. At least in one view of this drattedly complex thing we do.

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The fug blog wins

Bwa-ha-ha! Officially the last word on the fugly Britney Spears sculpture.

You know the one. The totally creepy cheescake-on-a-bearskin-rug birthing prolife one. The ickyest of the icky.

Beware. There's a picture of it in the link. Don't say that I didn't warn you.