my professor was saying it& #39;s problematic to call Shakespeare characters queer because our concept of queerness didn& #39;t exist when the plays were written which i get but just... don& #39;t see the big deal with thinking Antonio and Sebastian are in love

i just feel weird that we were kinda joking and fooling around in regards to the characters being queer and she& #39;s like "we cannot deny the heterosexual pairings in the end" and it& #39;s kinda like... yeah, obviously?

Her exact words are "if we do not know how someone self-identifies, it is fair to identify them within a category hundreds of years later, a category that did not exist then and in which they possibly would not even understand?"

We& #39;re reading "Twelfth Night" and we were calling it queer and she said, "it does not necessarily mean that, if they feel desire for a character of the same gender, then they are necessarily queer" and I& #39;m not trying to attack I just genuinely don& #39;t understand???

i feel bad for tweeting this now because it sounds like I& #39;m dunking on her. she& #39;s a good professor I just really don& #39;t get this! and hoped other people did