queerbaiting
See also: queer-baiting and queer baiting
English
Alternative forms
Noun
queerbaiting (uncountable)
- (LGBT, fandom slang) 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.
- 2013, Matthew Ellison, "Queerbaiting", Salient (Victoria University of Wellington), Volume 76, Issue 23, 7 October 2013, page 39:
- 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.
- 2013, Mollie Forman, "Eat the executive", Post- (Brown University), 20 November 2013:
- 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.
- 2014 June 29, Maneesha Dullewe, “A brief guide to queerbaiting”, in Ceylon Today:
- Criticism of queerbaiting also does not imply that creators need to be dictated to by fans on how to run their show; […]
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:queerbaiting.
- 2013, Matthew Ellison, "Queerbaiting", Salient (Victoria University of Wellington), Volume 76, Issue 23, 7 October 2013, page 39:
Related terms
See also
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.