Post by Simone on Feb 6, 2023 13:41:02 GMT -8
I don't agree with the accusatory tone of this article and the finger-pointing by an LGBTQ person daring Timmy, Harry, and this Bad Bunny guy, of having the audacity to wear fashion that they don't feel they should be wearing. I know several gay men, and none of them dress like Timmy and Harry. Maybe they just LOVE these fashions and don't want to be judged. If anything, it's showing solidarity with Queer culture. Queer Baiting to me is now akin to 'Cultural appropriation' BS, and I find it rude and unfair.
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A quick primer, for those of you who, like me, are over a certain age and may be more familiar with the term “gay baiting”: This is one of those squirmy evolving-language things in which, faster than you might ever imagine, a phrase comes to mean almost exactly the opposite of what it once meant. As recently as 10 years ago, gay baiting referred to the practice, especially in politics, of sneeringly insinuating that someone was gay via coded language in order to harm them while maintaining plausible deniability by never saying it directly. Today, however, queer baiting (the difference in designation is not incidental) is a celebrity culture term referring to performers and artists who slyly imply, whether by action, remark or passing behavior, that they might not be a hundred percent heterosexual in order to court an L.G.B.T.Q. audience, but are actually either straight or, at the very least, determined not to get specific. For those who make the accusation of queer baiting, the argument against opportunism is simple: How dare you reach into our pockets and take our money when you’re only pretending to be one of us (or, in any case, when you’re not telling us who you are)?
