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I heard some complaints about the name of this trope today -- people pointing out the UnfortunateImplications of using \
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I heard some complaints about the name of this trope today -- people pointing out the UnfortunateImplications of using \\\"straight\\\" to mean \\\"doesn\\\'t act like a gay stereotype\\\" -- and I was going to add it to the Trope Repair Shop but found myself unable to do that because of the cap, so for now I\\\'ll just put my thoughts here.
In addition to the UnfortunateImplications (it\\\'s basically saying \\\"straight = normal\\\"), the name StraightGay is an oxymoron when taken at face value (unless you interpret \\\"straight\\\" as meaning something like \\\"plain\\\" or \\\"vanilla\\\" rather than \\\"heterosexual\\\" -- it\\\'s a valid alternate meaning but that seems like an unlikely interpretation when the next word is \\\"gay\\\"). This could confuse newcomers.
I\\\'d vote for InconspicuouslyGay in a name change, because it gets rid of the problems with the name StraightGay while still straightforwardly illustrating that [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the character\\\'s homosexuality is inconspicuous]]. StealthGay sounds like the character\\\'s closeted rather than just being unobtrusively yet openly gay, because it sounds similar to the transgender use of \\\"stealth\\\": trans people who live as their chosen gender while hiding the fact that they\\\'re trans. GaydarInvisibleGay just sounds sort of clunky and redundant.
In addition to the UnfortunateImplications (it\\\'s basically saying \\\"straight = normal\\\"), the name StraightGay is an oxymoron when taken at face value (unless you interpret \\\"straight\\\" as meaning something like \\\"plain\\\" or \\\"vanilla\\\" rather than \\\"heterosexual\\\" -- it\\\'s a valid alternate meaning but that seems like an unlikely interpretation when the next word is \\\"gay\\\"). This could confuse newcomers.
I\\\'d vote for InconspicuouslyGay in a name change, because it gets rid of the problems with the name StraightGay while still straightforwardly illustrating that [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the character\\\'s homosexuality is inconspicuous]]. StealthGay sounds like the character\\\'s closeted rather than just being unobtrusively yet openly gay, because it sounds similar to the transgender use of \\\"stealth\\\": trans people who live as their chosen gender while hiding the fact that they\\\'re trans. GaydarInvisibleGay just sounds sort of clunky and redundant.
