dwarfmun:

why i don’t think a simple favor was queerbaiting

(MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD)

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• The sheer presence of an impassioned, consensual, plot-important kiss
• Blatantly catering to the queer female gaze at every turn
• Real, palpable, and plot-important tension: Stephanie staring at the nude painting, fumbling over her words when Emily is undressing, being extremely excited when she discovers Emily is bi
• From no angle whatsoever could you argue that either Stephanie or Emily is not bisexual – not just based on tension, but on the kiss and Emily’s threesome
• Just because Emily and Stephanie didn’t run off together doesn’t mean they weren’t queer; Emily was evil and her fate was satisfying. The twist ending was just as delightfully farfetched as the rest of the movie, and clearly not a reacharound to avoid a gay ending
• The fact that they never explicitly state their sexualities makes all the tangled romantic threads between the leads more unpredictable, and it would probably have felt less natural if they opened up to each other that way, especially since Stephanie is clearly insecure about it
• Just because the leads didn’t say “I’m gay” the same way straight characters don’t have to say “I’m straight” doesn’t make what happened in the movie less gay
• The movie isn’t about being queer but it has queer characters anyway and that’s kickass
• A MOVIE WITH CANON QUEER PEOPLE WHO DON’T END UP TOGETHER IS NOT QUEERBAITING

Source: I am bisexual and I loved the way this movie handled bisexuality