Sexuality, Gender, and Story Structure
(Or, I don't mean to get all Freudian on ya.)

There are many who would say that the structure of story (and art for that mater) is not organic; rather, like all social entitites, it is constructured, not natural, not essential, but artificial (artifice) and bears the ideological/political/religious imprint of its creator.

But is not the basic structure of story organic in the sense that it imitates not only the "structure" of our life (that is, a beginning, middle, and and end) but also perhaps our sexuality, and I mean sexuality from a rather crude, reproductive sense. It could be argued (notice the passive tense here because I'm not sure if I buy this - yet) that the way we have traditionaly thought of story structure is really bases upon the male orgasm.

I'm sure some feminist theory has pointed this out. And, it's not too far from Derrida's "phallogocentricism." Which writer of fiction hasn't seen one of those diagrams of fiction which charts the "rising action" and "climax" and "denoument"?

Two women overheard:
"Well, do you like him?"
"I don't know."
"C'mon, what do you mean you don't know."
"I don't know, he's kind of cute."
"And?"
"We'll, he makes pretty good money."
"Yeah, go on."
"He's pretty intertextual."
"Oh? really?
"Last night, I mean, he showed me, we ... Well, let's just say he's very phallocentric."
"Does he have a friend?"
"Best ding an sich I've ever seen.And he knows how to use it."
"Ohhhh. He can deconstruct me ANY time."