omg, your sarcastic comments in tags are so good. please continue calling people the fuck out on their bullshit :)
Why thank you, Iris dear.
I will do so. I mean, it’s really ridiculous that I even have to, tbh, but homophobia will out, and people will continue to argue that homophobia isn’t that bad or, hell, doesn’t exist cos it’s not worse.
People like CKOH will say things like “they complained cos they weren’t queer women instead of queer men” and not get the fact that THERE COULD HAVE BEEN BOTH.
People like that person will say things like “but Lily wasn’t sexualized!” without understanding that hypersexualization is NOT the only problem queer women face; our stories ending tragically every single time is another huge one.
People like that person will ignore the fact that:
- Lily, Corbett, and Susan all existed to be tragic and queer and die.
- Demian/Barnes and Kristen/Siobhan existed purely to make a point about the fans and secondhand via costuming/cosplay, the straight protagonists, NOT to normalize or legitimize queerness (and the latter, the queer women fans CKOH talks about fans requesting, were given few lines and no opportunity, unlike presumedly straight multishipper!Marie, to actually talk about how they feel about the story or Destiel. They pretty much only existed to make a Destiel [queerbait?] point to Dean. So, uh. Yeah.).
- The Chief, the “twinks”, Aaron Bass, and Dwight/Rod, were all played for “straight” boy reactions and/or for laughs.
- My sweet baby girl, Charlie, never had one single love relationship with a recurring female character (or more than one one-ep)–which is part of why she’s a token, and is dead by a Nazi’s hand.
- Dean and Cas and Destiel are legendary queerbaiting that will go down in media history–the same way Xena/Gabi and Kirk/Spock did, in a modern time that should be way more progressive–particularly if they’re kept in queerbaiting.
- Many people think Meg, a straight rapist, was more “human” because she had straight-read obsessive, hyper-sexual romantic love for Castiel, when Ruby and Anna, who actually formed a connection not based upon weaponized sexuality and abusive manipulation, ended up alone, straight-read, “evil” and dead, and when Crowley, a subtextually queer rapist, was given the same treatment without near the textuality or the borderline glorification or the selective ambiguity of the protagonist rejecting them.
- Crowley, Demon Dean, Godstiel, Lilith, Astaroth, Ruby, the siren, Jeffrey/his demon…among others, are all queercoded, aka “evil” characters being given queer subtext or more enhanced subtext, when they’re “evil” or originating in “evil”.
- Sam and Kevin have literally made a joke out of the possibility of Kevin being queer using a campaign started because of queer #suicide rates.
…And all of these are facets of homophobic erasure and devaluation.
There is no good representation in Supernatural, thus far, now that Charlie has epitomized Kill Your Gays. None. Not unless they actually textualize Dean/Cas in a “they get a happy, hopeful ending” way. Which, tbh, I’m still not actually entirely convinced they won’t, but yeah. That’s the only way I see it happening.
