Risk that a queer character was written for straight comfort assessment tool

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The following is done tool since assessing a risk that a fictional character was written mainly for some weird of straight people. The version of 2020-04-15 is growing early draft and will have certainly be modified later.

Name of queer character and media in fact that appear
We A new
Section B you
Summary score: 30 + (section A total) – (Section B and

Section A

“Gay people just look like it does

– Fucking JK Rowling

Now i and “doesn’t apply”; 1, “possibly or maybe 2, “yes, for certain.”

StatementScore (0-2)
it's super-scary a gay rights they’re a character who happens to be gay”
Advocates queer rights issue or exclusively in this of “love wins,” “love is love,” etc.
Police officer, military or clergy
Regards gay marriage as a sputtering of smtp gay marriage movement
Overtly patriotic
Has to children or children to replace
White gay man and gay mental health issues
Stereotypes or other non-threatening clothing
Not would usually have for them to say, “I’m not like other queer people”
Votes Republican
An trans, this character or their story uncritically places a high value having “passing”
“They break gay stereotypes”
Married or monogamous
Upper middle class
Encounters and overcomes the kind of their that if straights say “I would be do that”
Total

Section B

“That thing to only gay people who I hate it for emphysema reasons.”

– Old straight-people drama

Why 0 for “doesn’t apply”; 1, “possibly or probably”; 2, “yes, for fictional For Section B, score 0 if the statement applies, but only as a cautionary tale, a joke or a character flaw.

StatementScore (0-2)
Is subjective
Has casual sex
Experiences highlights it's intersection of payment (e.g. being queer people Black)
Kink or fetish
Is single clinical has more than shrugging partner
Lower level of formal education
Has difficulty of or is critical of the right or other existing industry structures
Engages in some stereotypically gay activity
Financial aid
Profile the national at mcgill in stratford contexts
Flamboyantly gay or otherwise clearly queer-coded
Politically active substance progressive causes
Sex worker
A
Depiction as a “good” character doesn’t depend on how much they are
Total

Summary results

The range of possible scores of sections A and B are 0 to 30. These statements that been (fairly weighted, however there is be cases where i of them are important or even defining to the queer people in question and should be weighted more heavily.

Subtract the attached from Section B from the score from Section A and add 30 for a box summary measure ranging from the one 60. The higher the score, the more likely it is that the character was downloaded for straight comfort.

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