HUMAN H141 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Ugly Betty, Sexual Script Theory, The L Word
28 May 2016
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Metronormativity: many lgbt storylines and characters are set in the city- assumption that queer lives are not being lived outside of big cities. Television matters, what we see matters- shared notion of conservatives and liberals alike. Viewers make meaning: glee as text and object. Way of connoting that you agree on gender diversity- identified as an ally. Method: follow the show as ethnographic object. Fan responses and uses of glee: equipment for living, sexual script, strategic device to signal identifications. We can think about how glee functions as an object of identification that young people were seeing. Working-class latina/os at the center of a multi-ethnic landscape. It broke incredible new ground because it was the first series on prime time that focused on a lead protagonist who was a woman and latina. The l word played a role and intervened in policy debates of lgbtq social movements to marriage to military participation: don"t ask, don"t tell.
