Filipino singer-songwriter Denise Julia received flak for her heated remarks over claims that she has engaged in “queerbaiting.”
The singer’s now-deleted posts on her X (formerly Twitter) profile sparked controversy when an X called her out for making offensive remarks about women. The user also pointed out how ill-timed the matter was to break out during International Women’s Month.
Denise purportedly posted about people questioning her sexuality and calling her work and relationships with other female artists “queerbaiting”, a marketing strategy used by creators for fiction or entertainment to allude to same-sex romances and other LGBTQ+ representations without explicitly depicting them.
Currently, a screenshot of the singer’s tweets has been circulating online, where social media users vented their displeasure with the “NVMD” singer’s objectification of women through her remarks.
Meanwhile, Denise addressed the allegations against her, and fans rushed to support the artist who had defended her deleted words.
The artist confronted the problem head-on on Tuesday, March 12, explaining why she had decided to remove her posts, which were aimed at “offensive straight and homosexual men” who persisted in pressing the queerbaiting issue on her. After deleting the controversial posts, Julia vowed to do better.
https://twitter.com/denisejvlia/status/1767449301482172441?s=20
Denise Julia is one of the rising Filipino artists of her generation who has been vocal about her sexuality as she openly admitted that she is pansexual (someone who is attracted to all genders) in her past X post last January.
One of the up-and-coming Filipino artists of her generation, Denise Julia, has been outspoken about her sexual orientation. In a previous X post from January, she freely acknowledged that she is pansexual—that is, someone who is attracted to all genders.
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