Shannon and Swift’s determination to not verify the origin of the road appears to be two-fold. On one hand, if Kelly Rowland did improvise the road, placing the blame on her can be throwing a Black girl below the bus for a line that will in the end need to have had approval from the editor, director, and producers to remain within the closing product. Placing all of it on her would have allowed the remainder of these concerned to make use of her as a scapegoat, which reeks of anti-Blackness.

Then again, the road may have very nicely been on the suggestion of a producer or somebody in a higher-up position, and calling them out publicly may have irreversible results on the writers’ careers as a result of we all know how petty studio execs may be with writers looking for simply therapy. There is not any definitive reply as to how this line obtained into the movie, and no matter whose thought it was, there is no such thing as a singular particular person guilty for its inclusion.

I can solely communicate for myself, however I’ve fortunately worn a Freddy Krueger sweater to many Ugly Christmas Sweater events over time, a strategy to “don my homosexual attire,” if you’ll. And with out fail, each time I enter the room, there has persistently been a minimum of one fellow homosexual one that instantly realizes why I am carrying the sweater for a Christmas social gathering — an indication that this line has change into “iconic” in queer circles. As is the case with any phrase used to hurt a marginalized group, there is no universally accepted strategy to deal with or really feel a couple of slur being utilized in a mainstream film, which suggests there is no proper/mistaken strategy to really feel about it. 

And it is for that reason that slasher followers, particularly queer ones, won’t ever cease debating this line.