This is actually mostly the faults of eruthros and thingswithwings who got me thinking about this with the extended and hilarious rants on the general topics of "Steve Rogers knows about [insert topic here]!" Where [topic] could be anything from television to queerness. It's interesting to me because people getting it wrong re what Steve Rogers knows isn't really a bad research problem, it's a problem rooted in the way we conceive of the past as conservative and the present as not, the past as ignorant and the present as knowing, etc. etc. Which bounced sideways in my brain into how, in historical queer romance, there's never a queer community. People have to reinvent queerness from scratch every time. Which I find quite problematic, and also not fun.

/thirty second simple version.