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damnspacebois:

Hey so … do people actually know the difference between queerbaiting and queercoding? The past few days, it seems like people have fundamentally misunderstood these two terms, thus leading to quite a bit of distress and aggressive behaviour.

Queerbaiting is when a piece of media strings along viewers by injecting gay subtext without actually intending to ever go through with it. The characters are not queer in the eyes of their creators. Queercoding is when the text introduces gay subtext fulling intending for the audience to read it as such, but are restricted by what they may or may not show, thus making an explicit representation impossible. These characters are queer. Thus, the two are not the same thing.

While it is completely inappropriate to treat anyone the way I’ve seen particular EPs treated in the past few days, it is doubly unfair to treat the producers of a queercoded text as if they’re queerbaiting, because it’s likely that they’ve fought very hard to get whatever gay subtext into said media in the first place. With queercoding, explicit representation is something out of their control, so how does it then follow that they get harassed for something they’ve fought for, that they want explicitly in their media too, just because it wasn’t completely explicit?

Sincerely, a queer woman who also wants representation but has realistic expectations.