Queerbaiting is erasure. It’s telling queer people that they don’t exist, or that our stories aren’t worth telling, and it’s harmful.
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Queerbaiting
Synonyms for "queerbaiting" (2 found)
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Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 賣姬 /卖姬 noun (Translations)
- 賣腐 /卖腐 noun (Translations)
French
1 entries- queerbaiting noun (Translations)
Russian
1 entries- квирбе́йтинг noun (Translations)
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Some feel that fan pressure to emphasize Buffy and Spike’s relationship spoiled the last few seasons of Joss Whedon’s show, and many fans were alienated by Teen Wolf’s recent queer-baiting.
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Criticism of queerbaiting also does not imply that creators need to be dictated to by fans on how to run their show; […]
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And as a much better NYT comment piece on queerbaiting put it last year: “As self-serving as some celebrity caginess can be, you can’t build a world in which everyone feels free to self-identify by ordering everyone to self-identify.”
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