straightwashとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

straightwash (三人称単数 現在形 straightwashes, 現在分詞 straightwashing, 過去形および過去分詞形 straightwashed)

1. To interpret or present a queer figure, relationship, or situation as exclusively heterosexual.

   Biographies of the king tend to straightwash him, ignoring his lengthy romances with two of his male courtiers while playing up his marriage to the queen.

   • 2015, Edmond Y. Chang, “Love Is in the Air: Queer (Im)Possibility and Straightwashing in FrontierVille and World of Warcraft”, in QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking, volume 2, number 2, DOI:10.14321/qed.2.2.0006, pages 9–10:

     Rather than focus on ostensibly queer games, I want to show how doing a queer analysis of mainstream games provides critical ways to demonstrate how most video games strategically deploy and ultimately recuperate and straightwash queer possibilities.

   • 2018, Bonnie Ruberg, “Straightwashing Undertale: Video games and the limits of LGBTQ representation”, in Transformative Works and Cultures, volume 28, 4.3, DOI:10.3983/twc.2018.1516:

     While Undertale's queer representational aspects have been straightwashed by significant sectors of the game's reception, its LGBTQ characters and storylines have proven immensely meaningful for many of the game's queer players.

   • 2019, Tan France, “Crossed Legs”, in Naturally Tan: A Memoir, St. Martin's Publishing Group, →ISBN:

     It took me a long time, but I'm so happy that I'm finally in a place where I no longer feel the need to whitewash or straightwash myself in order to fit in.