ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Why do we keep torturing ourselves? Join us as we discuss crushed dreams and dashed expectations in the face of malice of contemporary show runners. Here's our take on queerbait!
P.S. Dean is bi but Jensen is gay.
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References
Why Queerbaiting Matters More Than Ever
10 Times Were Burned By Queerbaiting TV And Movie LGBTQ Ships
Queerbaiting: Our Life Is Not Yours to Profit From | An Anaylsis
Queerbaiting - exploitation or a sign of progress? - BBC News
Brennan, Joseph, ed. Queerbaiting and Fandom: Teasing Fans through Homoerotic Possibilities. University of Iowa Press, 2019. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvrs8xtj.
McDermott, Michael. “The (Broken) Promise of Queerbaiting: Happiness and Futurity in Politics of Queer Representation.” International Journal of Cultural Studies 24, no. 5 (September 2021): 844–59. https://doi.org/10.1177/1367877920984170.
Joseph Brennan (2017) ‘Jensen Ackles is a (homophobic) douchebag’: the ‘politics of slash’ in debates on a TV star’s homophobia, Celebrity Studies, 8:2, 246-261, DOI: 10.1080/19392397.2016.1249897
Ng, Eve. 2017. "Between Text, Paratext, and Context: Queerbaiting and the Contemporary Media Landscape." In "Queer Female Fandom," edited by Julie Levin Russo and Eve Ng, special issue, Transformative Works and Cultures, no. 24. http://dx.doi.org/10.3983/twc.2017.917.
Video Sources
The History of Queer Baiting (Part 1... The First 100 Years)
WHAT IS (AND ISN'T) QUEERBAITING?
Jensen/Misha panel - JIB 10 (Misha chokes Jensen at 21:21, watch it, this is some choice queerbait)
