[ SECRET POST #2948 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2948 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Het Erasure?

[cbrachyrhynchos]

Well, more seriously it's bullshit that depends on equating petty fandom popularity contests with long-standing institutional biases in journalism, media, and academia.

Gay erasure was a policy of hundreds of newspapers that refused to print obits for men who died of AIDS, or printed fiction instead. Gay erasure was the demand by a preacher this month to remove photos of a lesbian couple from a funeral. He forced the mourners to carry the casket out of the church rather than perform the service. Gay erasure was the celluloid closet, even going so far as to produce propaganda like "Night and Day" to create the illusion of heterosexuality. Gay erasure is bowdlerized history, mythology, and literature.

And bisexual erasure exists as well: Alan Cumming repeatedly described as a gay man, Larry King's "You were bisexual?", "Gay, Straight, or Lying" as a headline in the NYT. Tans erasure exists as well.

But het erasure? No. Het erasure in the Star Trek franchise, where non-heterosexuality is represented in less than a half-dozen TV episodes and primarily explored in the extended universe of fiction? No. If anything, K/S is a reaction to the fact that, due to the constraints of network television and mass-market cinema, practically everyone (including Morn) got at least one apparently heterosexual relationship.

That you don't have the monster ship and people say bad things about your favored character isn't het erasure. It might be some other form of prejudice, complicated by being in a shitty fandom for a shit movie, further complicated by the function of the internet as a meagaphone for negativity, but it's not the same thing as gay/bi/trans erasure.

Re: Het Erasure?

[lb_lee]

THANK YOU. I admit, the snarky part of me was like, "Gee, not being allowed to exist in the pop culture and being treated as inferior? I can't IMAGINE what that must feel like..."

--Rogan

Re: Het Erasure?

[(Anonymous)]

I agree it isn't 'erasure' in the true sense of the word because, come on, het is everywhere.
If we talk about certain fandoms it's, at best, mysoginy and therefore women 'erasure' (in fandom) and honestly, that does affect the way lesbian couples are perceived by some too because it's every relationship with women that is considered inferior.