Cheers entities, I need your help.
Iām writing a paper in which I need to argue that gay panic is a term that is being reclaimed by the queer community, after having been used for evil far too long.
I was wondering whether anyone on here got a better idea than citing urban dict.
Any and all help is greatly appreciated :3
P.s.: The paper isnāt entirely about gay panic, but rather needs this snippet to āproveā that the Webis Trigger Warning Corpus 2022 is at least partially flawed.
well, Iāve seen the term be used by queers in a non homophobic fashion. hence i thought that āgay panicā tags on AO3 probably arenāt homophobic either, and from what iāve gathered by briefly skimming an AO3 search, that seems to be the case.
However, if iām right, the automatic tag sorting they did is flawed, because they consider non homophobic texts to be homophobic (or covering homophobia).
Recalimed yes, but I find the term is still linked to homophobia. In this case internalized homophobia that leads to a fright, when realizing you find a person of the same sex attractive.
Depending on your papers topic you might also dig into the effects of trigger or content warnings on the audience. I heard of papers that suggested that the use of trigger warnings can cause a stress reactions in people, which leads to them percieving the offensive content as far worse than the control group who was not given a content warning. (Or something along those lines. Sorry, itās been some time)
Those are good points and thank you for your recommendation. Iāll dig into that for the ethical considerations part!