Sign and signifier here? For what it's worth, this is one where I think there's always an audience, or at least that being alone doesn't mean no audience: many (most? probably not all) people perform gender at least in part for themselves.
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Did anyone say they were confused about the line-eater?
1) Aye. 2) A followup that ran through my mind while the posting script was running, was "can there ever be said to be no audience / does oneself always count as audience as well as performer?" Your point that most people perform gender at least partly for themselves definitely tips things to the "self counts as audience" side there. Useful point, that -- thanks. 3) Works for me. 4) Nobody mentioned having been confused (yet); it was merely hypothesized (asserted?) that such people would likely exist ... which made enough sense to me that I lazily accepted it without waiting for confirmation ...
I made a smart-alecky comment about the possibility of readers too young to get the reference. Then again, having been sick one way or another for the past week, maybe I'm just feeling old.
There are moments when I get to feeling old, and moments when I'm just pleased to know the references. (I'm slightly older than you, not that the differences matter at our age.)
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[I don't have a gender icon, I think the feminist one will do.]
Did anyone say they were confused about the line-eater?
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2) A followup that ran through my mind while the posting script was running, was "can there ever be said to be no audience / does oneself always count as audience as well as performer?" Your point that most people perform gender at least partly for themselves definitely tips things to the "self counts as audience" side there. Useful point, that -- thanks.
3) Works for me.
4) Nobody mentioned having been confused (yet); it was merely hypothesized (asserted?) that such people would likely exist ... which made enough sense to me that I lazily accepted it without waiting for confirmation ...
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