queerbaiting
nounEtymology
From queer + baiting.
Definitions
The practice of creating homoerotic tension between two characters in a narrative work…
The practice of creating homoerotic tension between two characters in a narrative work (particularly a television series) without the intention of ever developing it into an actual same-sex relationship or explicitly addressing the question of either character's sexuality.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for queerbaiting. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA