Accompanied by his friend Cooper Pitts and twin siblings Jenny and Jamie Trachtenberg and Wester , Scott's quest takes him to England, France, the Netherlands, Slovakia, Germany, and Italy, encountering awkward, humorous, and embarrassing situations along the way. In the town of Hudson, Ohio , Scott "Scotty" Thomas is dumped by his girlfriend Fiona immediately after his high school graduation at the beginning of the film. With his best friend, Cooper Harris, Scotty attends a graduation party that evening, where the band performs a song detailing the affair Fiona was having with the band's singer. Scotty returns home drunk and angry and reads an email from his German pen pal , Mieke—who Scotty calls "Mike"—expressing sympathy for Scotty and suggesting they meet in person.
Whatever Turns You On: Becoming-Lesbian and the Production of Desire in the Xenaverse
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Skip to Content. Gabrielle, I wanted to thank you. While same-sex desire is regarded by fans as subtextual in the popular syndicated television show, Xena: Warrior Princess, a campy and often anachronistic series detailing the adventures of a Greek warrior woman and her youthful sidekick, obvious references such as this one are part of an ongoing narrative trope that is all too scrutable and marketable. The more we talk about a possible sexual relationship between Xena and her sidekick, Gabrielle, the more that relationship is regulated as an already socially regulated site of sexual deviance. At the same time, they also foreground the mechanisms of repression and commodification of lesbian sexualities working to intensify and reproduce a desire for discourse on lesbianism ad infinitum. Rather, I want to examine how these mechanisms work in relation to the lesbian consumer-as-producer of sexually explicit fan fiction in order to explore the ramifications of such productions on our notions of lesbian subjectivity and agency in a commodity culture. In the past, slash fiction has characteristically consisted of writings about male same-sex encounters written by heterosexual women for heterosexual women.