Comments on: Sleepaway Camp and the Transgressive Possibilities of Queer Spectatorship https://www.horrorhomeroom.com/sleepaway-camp-and-the-transgressive-possibilities-of-queer-spectatorship/ Thu, 04 Jun 2020 20:33:07 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.1 By: Jen https://www.horrorhomeroom.com/sleepaway-camp-and-the-transgressive-possibilities-of-queer-spectatorship/#comment-20992 Sat, 04 Jan 2020 11:23:15 +0000 http://www.horrorhomeroom.com/?p=5254#comment-20992 I’m with Naomi, I ain’t with this. I kept expecting some more nuance, more substance to this piece, and I never got it. You never even delve into the problematic nature of Aunt Martha’s forced gendering of Peter, which is something that is still very relevant today as a narrative transphobes love to push and wring their hands over. Queer experiences are not all the same, and trans issues are a subset of them that you don’t seem to be well versed in. Next time, kindly leave this to someone who knows what they’re talking about, ie, actual trans folks.

]]> By: Naomi https://www.horrorhomeroom.com/sleepaway-camp-and-the-transgressive-possibilities-of-queer-spectatorship/#comment-20899 Wed, 25 Dec 2019 04:11:54 +0000 http://www.horrorhomeroom.com/?p=5254#comment-20899 This take is cold and bland. You recognize you’re not a trans woman, yet somehow take it upon yourself to speak to a demonizing portrait of transgender women.

You hide behind using “queer” as unifying terminology to avoid the cold fact that this isn’t your topic to say anything on. The trope of “girl was really a guy” used for shocks is always transmisogynistic. Trans women being made out as murderers is always transmisogynistic. This film is an example of heavy homophobia and transmisogyny put in place as a horror topic.

This article is foolish, ignorant, and lacks any kind of experience necessary to speak on these kinds of issues with any hope of clarity or truth.

Shame on you for speaking over trans women, and shame on you for allowing trans women in the community to be treated as horror tropes.

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