Straightwash
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To interpret or present a queer figure, relationship, or situation as exclusively heterosexual.
"Rather than focus on ostensibly queer games, I want to show how doing a queer analysis of mainstream games provides critical ways to demonstrate how most video games strategically deploy and ultimately recuperate and straightwash queer possibilities."
Example
More examples"Rather than focus on ostensibly queer games, I want to show how doing a queer analysis of mainstream games provides critical ways to demonstrate how most video games strategically deploy and ultimately recuperate and straightwash queer possibilities."
Etymology
From straight + wash, by analogy with pinkwash.
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