It's a children's/YA story Oh god yes this excuse *headdesks* I have seen it trotted out so so often. As if 'queer character' was the same as 'explicit sex' because QUEER IS DIRTY, or, tbh, I think the line is 'If you tell the kiddies there is queerness they might take it into their heads to be queer' which is depressingly fail on so, so many levels and basically exposes a very deep homophobia.
And the one about 'character is bisexual but happens to be attracted to opposite sex for now' is I find so much used for women in particular, because bisexual women are waiting for the right man (of course they are, all women are waiting for the right man! *headdesks moar*)
My contributions:
- If there were queer characters no one would buy it/if this possibly subtextually queer was explicitly outed no one would buy it so we're better off with a wink and nod
- There was that time there was a bodyswap and a same-sex kiss biologically happened although actually the person involved choosing to do the kissing was acting on a het attraction (see: most of Star Trek)
- There's already 'Queer as Folk', how many damn queer TV shows do you need?
- Queer people don't join the navy/army/starfleet/medical services/fire brigade so logically there wouldn't be any in this story
ALSO I think an honourable mention should go to anything where one character is mentioned to be canonically queer and then never dates ever, because ew...
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Date: 2013-01-26 11:09 am (UTC)Oh god yes this excuse *headdesks* I have seen it trotted out so so often. As if 'queer character' was the same as 'explicit sex' because QUEER IS DIRTY, or, tbh, I think the line is 'If you tell the kiddies there is queerness they might take it into their heads to be queer' which is depressingly fail on so, so many levels and basically exposes a very deep homophobia.
And the one about 'character is bisexual but happens to be attracted to opposite sex for now' is I find so much used for women in particular, because bisexual women are waiting for the right man (of course they are, all women are waiting for the right man! *headdesks moar*)
My contributions:
- If there were queer characters no one would buy it/if this possibly subtextually queer was explicitly outed no one would buy it so we're better off with a wink and nod
- There was that time there was a bodyswap and a same-sex kiss biologically happened although actually the person involved choosing to do the kissing was acting on a het attraction (see: most of Star Trek)
- There's already 'Queer as Folk', how many damn queer TV shows do you need?
- Queer people don't join the navy/army/starfleet/medical services/fire brigade so logically there wouldn't be any in this story
ALSO I think an honourable mention should go to anything where one character is mentioned to be canonically queer and then never dates ever, because ew...