Month: June 2013

An Alternative Queen of Heaven ~ Biblical Dysphoria

‘What exactly do you mean by Biblical Dysphoria?’ I can hear the fundamentalist guardians of the truth bleating already. After all, you can’t mention their Bible without the hackles being raised. Not if you’re queer, anyway. Sheep though they may be proud to be, I doubt their shepherd would have any problem with the terms […]

Boys and their Kites ~ Dumped, with Strings Attached.

Ever been dumped? It’s an odd and distressing feeling that often results in strange and unnatural behaviour, much self questioning of the ‘what’s wrong with me and where did I go wrong’ variety, and the opportunity to experience times of the day (and night) when you’d normally be sleeping that wonderful, post orgasmic, ‘happy relationship’, […]

Boston Lethal – Parodying a Nation Already Drowning In Self-Parody

I wrote this in 2009 also – mid second term of George W Bush.Not that I’d ever had any doubt, but it was gratifying to see others catch on to the fact that the Dixie Chicks had been right all along. When does a comedy-drama become a satire-driven reality parody? Answer: when it’s Boston Legal. […]

‘Romance’ ~ an observation

Late in the noughties I took post graduate papers in Feminist Studies and Sex in Film at The University of Auckland. During this time I wrote some slight pieces about the works I was reading and from time to time I’ll publish them here. This is one of them. John Phillips recognizes the traditional interpretation […]

Displaced, Fragmented, Relativised, Undermined ~ Then is it Still Pornography?

Late in the noughties I took post graduate papers in Feminist Studies and Sex in Film at The University of Auckland. During this time I wrote some slight pieces about the works I was reading and from time to time I’ll publish them here. This is one of them. Lisa Dowling argues that ‘pornography displaced, […]

Voyeurism ~ Is It Consumer-Directed Foreplay?

Late in the noughties I took post graduate papers in Feminist Studies and Sex in Film at The University of Auckland. During this time I wrote some slight pieces about the works I was reading and from time to time I’ll publish them here. This is one of them. A standard view of voyeurism assumes […]

The Generic Characteristics of the Stag Film

Late in the noughties I took post graduate papers in Feminist Studies and Sex in Film at The University of Auckland. During this time I wrote some slight pieces about the works I was reading and from time to time I’ll publish them here. This is one of them. The generic characteristics of the stag […]

‘How to Bring Your Kids Up Gay: The War on Effeminate Boys’

What follows is Brock Thompson’s excellent summary of Eve Sedgwick’s article ‘How to Bring Your Kids Up Gay: The War on Effeminate Boys’ and he wrote it because the APA was again revisiting its assessment of gender and Ray Blanchard had become the new Dr Evil. I republished this in 2009 and re-read it today […]