"there is no reason why homophobia should be a thing in your fictional universe" actually a) I grew up in a homophobic family in a homophobic country and can only explore my struggles and my identity through my writing b) I'm not about to be schooled by Tumblr activists as to what constitutes "good queer rep", most of you all don't seem to realise there are cultures outside those of Europe and USA and "good" is not a universal parameter.

news flash: the term “trap” in regards to a person’s gender has only ever been used to fetishize and dehumanize trans women, and play into the disgusting idea that trans women are secretly men trying to trick cis men, a mindset that contributes to real life violence, and to try and dismiss a character’s portrayal as not being transphobic because “they’re not trans, they’re a trap” is uninformed at best and actively malevolent at worst so shut the fuck up

Do we have a name for the trope where...

…the heroine “incidentally” is blonde-haired and blue-eyed and pale-skinned (whitest of the white) while a female antagonist or villain “just happens” to have dark hair (sometimes curly), dark eyes, and other features stereotypically affiliated with Jewish women, Roma women, Latinas, and other non-white (or conditionally white) women?

Tangled

But where is the lie?

Queer Coding villains is a thing, I suppose you could call this Racial Coding? 

For those unfamiliar with the concept, Queer Coding is giving a character stereotypical characteristics of LGBT people without outright identifying them as LGBT. This include prissy behavior, flamboyancy, high fashion, and effeminate behavior in male characters, and often these characters are the antagonist or otherwise cause problems for the protagonist. I’m hoping they’re falling more and more out of practice because it’s relying on the harmful trope of Gay = Bad and immoral to lazily design villains.

So I don’t know if Racial Coding is as well established as a trope, (It ought to be, I’m just more familiar with the Queer version,) but anyway the principle is about the same.