I am all for reclaiming media and writing what you'd LIKE to see, but my problem is I feel like people started slashing, creators discovered the slash, and then went 'we'll bait you, isn't that enough?'
Oh definitely, and it sucks doubly because then it becomes a homophobic symbol based around something that queer people find some scrap of representation in.
/ And honestly, I'm not even talking about straight girls shipping slash, since that's its own mess of misogyny and appropriation of queer symbols that can have way more of an impact than "what you like and don't like", and I say that as a straight slash shipper. I mostly just wanted to address that there are queer people who find representation in fandom despite shitty source material and despite straight slash shippers stomping all over their sexuality. However, there are also queer people (queer women especially) that don't feel the slightest bit represented by fandom because of the fixation on straight white dudes. While I do think it has value in discussions about female sexuality, whether it's really representation is iffy at best, and I think a discussion that queer people should be given the floor on.
Basically there are huge existing problems and queerbaiting only compounds them.
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Oh definitely, and it sucks doubly because then it becomes a homophobic symbol based around something that queer people find some scrap of representation in.
/ And honestly, I'm not even talking about straight girls shipping slash, since that's its own mess of misogyny and appropriation of queer symbols that can have way more of an impact than "what you like and don't like", and I say that as a straight slash shipper. I mostly just wanted to address that there are queer people who find representation in fandom despite shitty source material and despite straight slash shippers stomping all over their sexuality. However, there are also queer people (queer women especially) that don't feel the slightest bit represented by fandom because of the fixation on straight white dudes. While I do think it has value in discussions about female sexuality, whether it's really representation is iffy at best, and I think a discussion that queer people should be given the floor on.
Basically there are huge existing problems and queerbaiting only compounds them.