“The lesbian is a developmental aberration, Decter reckons, a woman’s desire for a perpetual girlhood where she does not have to grow up and face the cold, hard reality that to be an adult in a heterosexual world—here, her familiar condescension creeps back in—one has to sometimes do things that one would rather not do. Such as fuck men.
Whatever conclusions you would like to draw from that rationale, I leave you free to do so.”
The first part of Talia Bhatt’s essay which explores the heterosexualist conceptions of the lesbian via gender-conservativism, Class-S and Yuri literature, an examination of ruling-class ideologies utilizing Rossum’s Universal Robots as a primary text, and several pot shots at James Somerton.
Read along with the original here!