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Last night's Heroes
19 Jan 2010 09:24 amRelatively spoiler-free.
Earlier this season, Claire's friend, then roommate, Gretchen kissed her. It kinda freaked Claire out, but she didn't run screaming. Last night, Claire admitted she had feelings for Gretchen.
I'm just waiting for the "Claire's a lesbian now!!" to start up. It's accurate to say she's in a lesbian relationship with Gretchen, but she *did* back in S2 have a romantic storyline with that dude who could fly whom she helped out by hiding him in her closet.
Claire Bennet has been depicted as bisexual. As a bisexual woman, I'd appreciate it if fan writers didn't ignore or erase that bit, or write it off as "she was just experimenting."
I don't follow Heroes fandom, so I don't know if these things are happening.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
chasingtides discusses this practice in wider fandom (and society, to an extent) in beautiful detail here: There are few heroes for us. When, for example, I say that Oscar Wilde exhibited bisexual behavior and the reaction is, "What the hell are you talking about, [info]chasingtides, the man was gay," that is erasure. Not only is it erasure, but it denies us our heritage.
(I don't even want to start on the creepy misogyny vibes in last night's episode, or the writing out of characters of color, or how I want to kick them in the shins for so much retcon it hurts.)
Earlier this season, Claire's friend, then roommate, Gretchen kissed her. It kinda freaked Claire out, but she didn't run screaming. Last night, Claire admitted she had feelings for Gretchen.
I'm just waiting for the "Claire's a lesbian now!!" to start up. It's accurate to say she's in a lesbian relationship with Gretchen, but she *did* back in S2 have a romantic storyline with that dude who could fly whom she helped out by hiding him in her closet.
Claire Bennet has been depicted as bisexual. As a bisexual woman, I'd appreciate it if fan writers didn't ignore or erase that bit, or write it off as "she was just experimenting."
I don't follow Heroes fandom, so I don't know if these things are happening.
chasingtides discusses this practice in wider fandom (and society, to an extent) in beautiful detail here: There are few heroes for us. When, for example, I say that Oscar Wilde exhibited bisexual behavior and the reaction is, "What the hell are you talking about, [info]chasingtides, the man was gay," that is erasure. Not only is it erasure, but it denies us our heritage.(I don't even want to start on the creepy misogyny vibes in last night's episode, or the writing out of characters of color, or how I want to kick them in the shins for so much retcon it hurts.)
