brownpuffball replied to your post: the fact that the Voltron fandom is more concerned...
Well friend, I wouldn’t call them queerbaiting yet since this is only the second season out of six planned seasons. I think it’s really important to establish them as characters before we jump into the romance stuff. Now on Voltron fandom, Shiro is very explicitly an Asian man and Voltron fandom keeps on insisting that he must be kept at an age and role that leaves him functionally sexless. Racist much.
nope, not really @brownpuffball or rather, if the fandom’s treatment of Shiro picks up aspects of racism it’s because they’re part and parcel of the rhetorical toolset that antis thoughtlessly pull all their arguments from
don’t let that obscure their primary motivation: the policing of ships. given the diversity of the cast, you can see how blindly attributing racism to these accusations rapidly comes unhinged
now, as to the time aspect of queerbaiting, you have to remember that this is a multi-aspect accusation, built on showrunner conduct, known expectations, diversity rhetoric trotted out at cons, interviews, and social media, all conspiring together in the face of the fact that --
Hunk and Shay have already been telegraphed for a romantic arc, and Lance has spent every second on screen flirting with all the explicitly signified female characters. romance is already present, characterization is not the issue
