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A/B/O as a Problematic Cultural Response To Transphobia, Gender Anxiety, and U.S. Policy by tomato_greens for beyonces_fiancee
Fandoms: Multi-Fandom
07 May 2022
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In some ways, A/B/O stories are subversive, disrupting consensus social reality’s gender paradigms by exploring trans sexual desire, cis sexual desire that subverts patriarchal expectation, queer desire, non-gender-conforming desire, and extremely gender-conforming desire, often all in the same sexual act. In other ways, some stories' obsessive focus on the act of penetration in service of procreation reify patriarchal ideologies by inscribing them into not only social but biological reality. In A/B/O couples, the alpha is biologically determined to penetrate, and the omega biologically determined to be penetrated; their subsequent social behaviors, respectively dominant and submissive, are thus also biologically encoded. What do we do with that???
Illustrative quote from within: "Am I saying that A/B/O is the Angel of History? I mean, like, no, although that is extremely funny to imagine, so I invite fanart of The Angel Of History In Heat any time."
P.S. I mean "problematic" in the ~academic~ sense, not as in a cancelable offense.
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reminder to self: write a long comment re. the trans self in omegaverse cause I've been waiting for this essay since reading takatora-kun to omegatachi /define the relationship/exclusive no love zone!!!! as a genre that has gender subversion as front and center the way trans people get forgotten is so maddening to me gahhh
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not a fanfic but an excellent essay
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“ Assigning a woman a biologically determined penetrative role and conflating this penetrative role with inherent interpersonal and societal dominance is transphobic. Assigning a woman a biologically determined penetrated role and conflating this penetrated role with inherent interpersonal and societal submission is misogynist. Reframing lesbian sex as requiring a biologically determined dominant penetrative partner, a biologically determined submissive penetrated partner, and perseverating on the procreative act is homophobic. However personally liberating writing these scenes might be, they ultimately reify cisheteropatriarchal ideology.”
Great essay. Some of the time-river references definitely went over my head but the author made great use of contrasting sexual/gender anxieties with fan erotica and A/B/O.
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