You Knew What You Were Doing, Marvel — A Small Rant on Queerbaiting in The Falcon and The Winter Soldier

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The Falcon and The Winter Soldier (TFATWS) director Kari Skagland has been talking about the Queer subtext in the show, and… *sighs* I’m so tired.

(Warning: This post has v. mild MCU SPOILERS, and me getting extremely pi**ed off at Marvel’s heteronormative b*llsh**)

I’m so tired of Queerbaiting, followed up by fake-naive ‘no homo, I don’t know where you got the homo from, because these are just dudes being bros, just bros being dudes — two guys, sittin’ in a hot-tub…’ narratives.

There is no way in hell that Marvel, as a corporate and creative power, was unaware of the Bucky Barnes/Steve Rogers decade-long Queer love story narrative, that was c*ck-blocked by the ending of Avengers: Endgame.

To then follow that up with obviously Queer-coded moments with both Bucky and Sam — you knew what you were doing, Marvel.

If you didn’t realise that people would read a Queer subtext into two men rolling…