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::You're probably lucky enough to have gone to a conservative enough college (or gone to college long enough ago) that you wouldn't have heard of queer theory. It's a revisionist approach to literature -- the professors do it to have an edgy and new approach, but all it does is facilitate a reading of homosexual themes into places where they don't belong, nor were they intended by the authors. Shakespeare, Lewis Carroll, Jane Austen, etc, all these great world literary figures didn't intend any homosexual themes in their literary works, yet these queer theorists are purposefully misinterpreting the texts to have these themes. -[[User:Foxtrot|Foxtrot]] 03:06, 15 November 2008 (EST)
::You're probably lucky enough to have gone to a conservative enough college (or gone to college long enough ago) that you wouldn't have heard of queer theory. It's a revisionist approach to literature -- the professors do it to have an edgy and new approach, but all it does is facilitate a reading of homosexual themes into places where they don't belong, nor were they intended by the authors. Shakespeare, Lewis Carroll, Jane Austen, etc, all these great world literary figures didn't intend any homosexual themes in their literary works, yet these queer theorists are purposefully misinterpreting the texts to have these themes. -[[User:Foxtrot|Foxtrot]] 03:06, 15 November 2008 (EST)
:::I went to an extremely liberal college, but I was in the engineering program. (My only English class involved reading science fictuion.) But I did see Twelfth Night in high school, and there was a lot of generbending going on, and history (the non-revised kind) tells us that when the plays were performed men played all the parts. [[User:HelpJazz|Help]][[User talk:HelpJazz|Jazz]] 12:46, 15 November 2008 (EST)
:::I went to an extremely liberal college, but I was in the engineering program. (My only English class involved reading science fictuion.) But I did see Twelfth Night in high school, and there was a lot of generbending going on, and history (the non-revised kind) tells us that when the plays were performed men played all the parts. [[User:HelpJazz|Help]][[User talk:HelpJazz|Jazz]] 12:46, 15 November 2008 (EST)
::::I am aware that in Greek theater and the theater of Shakespeare's time, all the roles were played by men. This was the standard, because the men held the respectable jobs and women (for the most part) stayed at home and tended to the numerous domestic duties -- don't forget that it was a full time job! However, just because all the roles were acted by men, does not mean that there was a homosexual context to the acting, and moreover, it doesn't mean that Shakespeare wanted homosexual themes in his plays. I don't suppose you think Julius Caesar's cabal of conspirators was some homosexual love pact, do you? -[[User:Foxtrot|Foxtrot]] 15:52, 15 November 2008 (EST)