So rather than accuse Styles or any other star of appropriating queer culture (when, who knows, they themselves might be investigating their own sexuality), the community must "afford all people the agency speak about and self-determine their sexuality - even in the vaguest of terms - whether or not they have the experience, public performance, or 'credentials' to underscore said identity." Either way, he must be more in touch "It is a bitterly ironic inversion of the demands that a heterosexist society has spent time immemorial wrongly demanding of us." But the "queerbaiting critique leveled at public figures, rather than having any liberatory effect for queer people and communities," is actually and ultimately harmful to the queer identity in that it distills it "into a list of aesthetic and performed tasks," Guobadia argued.
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