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[hector_rashbaum]

Jesus Christ, I expected Queer as Folk to be like L Word and consist entirely of stereotypical characters, and plots that reinforce the worst assumption about the zomg gay lifestyle, but fuck was I not prepared for the level heterosexist gender essentialist bullshit it keeps slapping me with.

But I suppose it's just escapism. And escaping to the things I want to be escaping from makes perfect sense.

Wait.

Comments

[truemajority.livejournal.com]

I love QaF, but that's because i love me some gay boys. I don't watch it with the same lens that you do, so I guess I miss a lot of stuff

[evillttlimp.livejournal.com]

can you be more specific? I don't actually know of anything that went on in that show. I remember the episodes we watched together but I don't actually remember any plot lines... lol. I'm with iceyimeanemily* on this as well... i don't have the same mindset about these things. ,.\

*ps: spellchek wants me to use the word "anemically" rather than what I did end up typing... I need to actually use this word in real life sometime.

[hector-rashbaum.livejournal.com]

I'm just getting to the end of the first season, but there's a shitload of gender stereotyping - men as hypersexual commitmentphobes, women as zomgemotional. And there's a lot of heteronormative valuing of mother/father-child relationships over mother/mother-child.

Never mind there's some skeevy sexism issues - gay men going to a bar on "dyke night" and spending the whole time making derogatory comments about the lesbians there very neatly reinforces the bullshit idea that women are only valid if men grant validation, so even in a situation where men are explicitly not meant to be involved it's just ~sassy and charming~ when they insinuate themselves and bitch. And that's on top of all the snide little comments about lesbians peppered throughout the season.

Of course, it wouldn't be complete without tossing in a handful of race issues; the people we're supposed to care about are all lily-white, and POC exist entirely as sex objects.