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SMNTY Classics: Queerbaiting 101

Stuff Mom Never Told You

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Queer Baiting

Annie: Queer baiting sometimes gets levelled at fandons where the relationships don't go the way fans want. The question becomes, are we quer baiting ourselves? Are we so desperate for representation, or seeing it where it isn't? And are we dismissing cannon couples because we want to ship another couple so badly - and we'll see no evidence otherwise? Annie: There can be a level like in fighting and gate keeping and entitlement and i feel you probably won't encounter this unless you do go on line and up fan fiction or forms or whatever. I'm not being possessive or controlling, which i think is to be of entertainment. It's fun to think about

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