Viewing posts tagged heteronormativity
Posted by:
Jack Graham
6 years, 9 months ago
I've gone on the record saying I think Moffat's version of
Doctor Who is sexist and heteronormative. A challenge I often hear - and it's a serious point - is the idea that Moffat's
Who is, at least, no worse than previous eras on issues like depictions of gay relationships, and is frequently better. There are positive depictions of gay characters, quite unlike anything in, say, the Hartnell era. Well, firstly, let me say that I don't want to claim that things are 'worse' now (in any absolute way) than in the Hartnell years, when homosexuality essentially didn't exist at all in-story in the
Who universe. And sure, many old episodes have displayed all sorts of heteronormative stuff, and also outright homophobic stuff (albeit usually by implication). Harrison Chase is, in many ways, implied to be an evil gay man (it's not that I think gay people
are like him, but rather that he is constructed partly of tropes that connote gayness in pop culture).
It isn't that there's a scale that pertains to culture now just as it pertained in 1963 and 73 and 83 etc, with
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