yeah, but see, there's a difference i think between being uncommodifyable as an object of phallologocentric desire e.g. the gaze and just being fuck-you about it -- especially given her history as a sex worker, her finger to the camera, so to speak, doesn't change the staring at her. so courtney is still entrapped in the gaze.

and i think it's hard to pull performers out of this since any discussion of the gaze has to do with watching, and what we're watching is often a performance -- if nothing else, than of gender.

as far as the real world goes? i guess i'd say, do you mean by "the gaze" appropriable as an object of male desire? or do you mean something else?

femininity that is resistant: what about drag queens? divine?