okay I’m late to the game but I just found out about the whole “tyler posey queerbaiting”shitshow and can I just say, I think we need to take away the word queerbait from everyone. nobody’s allowed to use it until you can all learn what it means…but never fear! I’m here to educate the masses.
queerbait (noun/verb): when the makers of a piece of media (show, movie, book, etc) hint at a queer character or relationship in order to draw in queer audiences, all the while having no intention of paying it off.
queerbait is a fictional phenomenon. it’s something people do with fictional characters and worlds. REAL PEOPLE CANNOT QUEERBAIT. real people can profit off of creating an image around the queer identity (ie, everyone calling harry styles a queer icon when he neither identifies as queer nor does anything significant to support queer communities) but that’s not the same thing.
tyler posey coming out as some ambiguous sexual identity IS NOT QUEERBAIT. do y’all get how unbelievably fucked it is to hear someone announce their identity to the world and then everyone just decides “nah, he’s lying”??? what the FUCK. cardi b got called a queerbait despite having been openly bisexual for ages. rita ora was forced out of the closet in 2018 bc people accused her of queerbaiting with a song she’d written. kit connor, at the ripe age of EIGHTEEN, was forced to publicly come out to millions bc people said his portrayal of nick Nelson on heartstopper was queerbait.
REAL PEOPLE (listen close now, ik I’m repeating myself) CANNOT QUEERBAIT. why do you care what a washed up d-list celeb (no offense tyler) calls his own sexuality?? who are you to decide what someone else’s identity is?
We’re new in this neighborhood and there are tons of kids, so we have to cement our reputation as a Good Trick or Treating House™
The small bowl is for kids with peanut allergies, and I also have cans of soda for kids with other/really severe peanut allergies!
Also at this house:
Nonverbal kids will not be forced to say “trick or treat”
No one is too old for candy
You don’t even have to be wearing a costume to get candy
If you ARE wearing a costume, you will be complimented
Happy to report that I have already impressed one mom of a kid who has a bajillion allergies by having candy he could eat. But I also have non caffeinated soda for kids who can’t have any of the candy.
I wish we had someone like you in my neighborhood when I was a kid ;-;
The great thing about becoming an adult is that you can BE that person now!
I have also learned the sign language for happy Halloween in case any deaf/hard of hearing kids come by!!!
Also, there is no difference between kids who
Walk from house to house
Are driven from house to house (walking can be hard with a disability)