单词 | queerbaiting |
释义 | queerbaitingn. 1. The harassment, abuse, or targeted provocation of LGBTQ people (esp., in early use, gay men). Cf. gay-baiting n. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > [noun] > upon specific types of person wife-beating1650 wife bashing1898 queerbaiting1956 Paki-bashing1970 queer-bashing1970 wife-battering1973 granny bashing1974 granny battering1975 gay-bashing1977 Paki-busting1977 1956 One (Los Angeles) Apr.–May 8 The Miami News, expert in that field [sc. witch-hunts], has tried a new version known as ‘queer-baiting’. Feature of their technique, guaranteed to prejudice, is the overused term pervert, a catchall word painting all homosexuals as rapists, child molesters and sex murderers. 1960 Law & Contemp. Probl. 25 323 For other delinquent gangs, the practice becomes one of ‘queer-baiting’, to roll the ‘queer’ for his money, since he fears legal recourse to charge he has been robbed. 1999 M. Cohen in K. G. Klein Diversity & Detective Fiction 144 [The] fear and hatred..expresses itself in racist and national stereotypes, in misogyny, in the queer-baiting that the hard-boiled detectives cannot seem to avoid. 2013 Huffington Post (Nexis) 9 Feb. This year, organizers decided to make..[the festival]..bigger and better by excluding a vital part of the community: LGBT groups. What could possibly top good old-fashioned queer baiting, bullying and shunning? 2. The practice of incorporating apparently or potentially LGBTQ characters or relationships into a film, television show, etc., as a means of attracting or appealing to LGBTQ audiences, while remaining deliberately coy or ambiguous about the characters' sexuality; (more generally) the practice of trying to appeal to and capitalize on LGBTQ audiences or customers in a deceptive or superficial manner. ΚΠ 2012 amorremanet 13 May in tumblr.com (accessed 22 Oct. 2020) ‘Dean and castiel. i mean get a room’... That's awesome. Now, can we please stop queer-baiting? 2015 H. Mueller in N. Farghaly Gender & Modern Sherlock Holmes (e-book ed.) The movie allowed the audience to imagine a romantic relationship between Holmes and Watson... A Game of Shadows, the fans decided, was guilty of queerbaiting. 2019 Evening Standard (Nexis) 18 May Calvin Klein has apologised after being accused of ‘queerbaiting’ in an advert which depicted [a] heterosexual model..kissing another woman. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1956 |
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