We’re glad to have you back where you belong, WALL•E!
By smartyboots • Aug 20th, 2008 • Category: Trans Sexuality, pop cultureCheck out Kate Bornstein’s great post on robots and gender in WALL•E.
I’m completely smitten with WALL•E, this summer’s Pixar/Disney offering. But the last thing I expected to see in my friendly, heterosexual upper east side Manhattan neighborhood movie theater was a feature length cartoon about a pair of lesbian robots who fall madly in love with each other. WALL•E is nothing short of hot, dyke Sci Fi action romance, some seven hundred years in the future! Woo-hoo!Isn’t that what you saw?
No? What movie were you watching?
Leave it to Kate Bornstein to sum it up so clearly. And I think the point is a good one. In fact, I had a similar thought when I was watching it. It’s really not a stretch to view it that way, especially since they included the clear queer signifier of Hello Dolly. But since I lacked the get-up-and-go to actually follow through on that thought, go read her awesome post. And it goes without saying that you should see WALL•E, if you have not yet done so. (It’s worth checking out the comments, too, where Kate responds to some objections readers have to her theory.)
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That’s so punny!