英文摘要 |
The Kang-Yung TSAI C/Niang Event, happening in 2009, refers to socalled gender equity education feminists' and gay men's criticisms against the openly gay celebrity Kang-Yung TSAI and to Tsai's striking back in his blog and in the TV talk shows ‘Here Comes Kang-Xi' and ‘Here Comes the Sissy' after Tsai and his co-presenter Little S used the term ‘C/Niang' (sissy) to signify selfidentified male heterosexual guests in ‘Here Comes Kang-Xi'. This paper suggests a queered approach, characterized by contextuality, complexity and radicality, so as to look carefully at the term C/Niang's contested signification, queer performativity and resistant agency and, therefore, to point out the weakness of the feminist argument that the very term stands for nothing but humiliation. By dint of examining the C/Niang-negative discourses among the feminists and gay men and of exploring the ‘campy' interactions among the presenters and the guests in ‘Here Comes Kang-Xi' and ‘Here Comes the Sissy',this paper argues that in many ways C/Niang's contested signification and queerperformativity can be deployed by sissies in order to empower themselvesso that they become able to disrupt gender/sexual norms and to fight against sissyphobia. In methodology, this paper employs qualitative textual analysis. |