[ SECRET POST #6107 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6107 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I agree. I don't know, maybe it's something other than queerbaiting? I always thought of it as a form of queerbaiting or connected to it, I can see others here are using the word with a specific meaning that this type of thing may not fall under. I guess if it's happening with a couple that the creative team knows queer audiences would really like to see together, it strikes me as either a form of queerbaiting or similar thing. Whatever it is, I hate it, comes across as very meanspirited and uncomfortable for me as a gay viewer.

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ayrt

I personally think of it as queerbaiting, but I didn't want to give OP the impression that I actually thought Sherlock/John was being supported by the show, because I didn't think that. But I don't care for the way the writers treated the fans about the ship. If they're not going to be canon, then just tell the damn story and stop wink wink nudge nudge joking about it.

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ayrt

Yes, it's less the ship is supported by the media, more mocking the idea of the ship and teasing viewers who want to see the ship/gay characters by suggesting the characters are gay, but it's all a joke, it's not actually a thing, etc. I find it distasteful whether it falls under specifically queerbaiting or not (I agree that it does, for me, because it's still stringing the viewer along for a ship that will never happen, and knowing it's only a joke doesn't make it less irritating).

[(Anonymous)]

DA - how is it “stringing you along” if you know that it’s a joke? I mean, clearly it is unkind that they’re joking about something that’s important to you, but if they’re upfront about the fact that it’s a joke then that seems less like them stringing you along and more like you deciding that gay guy you have an embarrassingly obvious crush on is going to go straight for you because he called you his fake wife that one time.