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M3GAN, murder, and mass queer appeal

It's Been a Minute

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Megan's Queer Appeal?

I think the camp appeal is that it's a doll. With Megan, I think the displacing of expectation is what triggered this kind of outpouring of affection for this murder doll. Because it's just like you don't really see a murder doll every day. A lot of those themes interwee but horror. Like if it's this pretty Barbie that kills people, right? The action figures are supposed to be killing people. Polypockets not supposed to kill people. Right. It's something about like normal life that kind of gets shaken up and there's an affinity to that. For a lot of queer people, like normal life is kind of a horror show,. Like it's

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