{"id":6785,"date":"2015-12-16T17:59:36","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T22:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=6785"},"modified":"2015-12-16T17:59:36","modified_gmt":"2015-12-16T22:59:36","slug":"i-saw-the-queer-coding-and-transmisogyny-before-i-had-the-vocabulary-to-call-it-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2015\/12\/16\/i-saw-the-queer-coding-and-transmisogyny-before-i-had-the-vocabulary-to-call-it-out\/","title":{"rendered":"I saw the queer coding and transmisogyny before I had the vocabulary to call it out."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Digging back through past blog entries, I came across a chat with author Alex Potter about the attractiveness of antagonist characters. I excerpted our thoughts in an entry with the subject line <a href=\"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2006\/03\/17\/why-villains-are-cool-and-gay-villains-even-cooler\/\">&#8220;Why villains are cool and gay villains even cooler.&#8221;<\/a> In the chat, we clearly picked up on the characterization of many villains as evil <em>and<br \/>\n<\/em>attractive <em>and <\/em>queer. We focused less on their presentation as villainous and more on their irresistible and transgressive sexiness. We really liked them and agreed that they were pretty cool.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I see that I recognized queer coding back than &#8212; the clustering of evilness, sexiness, and queerness &#8212; even though I didn&#8217;t know the term. I also didn&#8217;t really recognize the negative connotations of queer coding. I was mostly happy just to have found characters that I thought were cool role models; I focused more on them being attractive and queer than on their villainy. I was so happy to have role models of any kind [finally, people in the media whose portrayals I could identify with!] that I didn&#8217;t think critically about how they were presented as evil <em>because<\/em> queer and failures <em>because <\/em> misogynistly presented as femme. I kind of skipped over the persistent link between, first, queerness and villainy and, second, queerness and transmisogyny. Of course, now I can look back and see how the queer coding and transmisogyny that I swallowed along with all my aspirational desire really messed things up, so blargh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digging back through past blog entries, I came across a chat with author Alex Potter about the attractiveness of antagonist characters. I excerpted our thoughts in an entry with the subject line &#8220;Why villains are cool and gay villains even cooler.&#8221; In the chat, we clearly picked up on the characterization of many villains as&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2015\/12\/16\/i-saw-the-queer-coding-and-transmisogyny-before-i-had-the-vocabulary-to-call-it-out\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I saw the queer coding and transmisogyny before I had the vocabulary to call it out.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[640,677],"class_list":["post-6785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-queer-yay","tag-transmisogyny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6786,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6785\/revisions\/6786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}