…isn’t it? I agree it’s a dumb way to talk about people though.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code-sw... Linguistic, not programming, though it's been expanded out. But people see coded and go with that ( hence, hard coded). I think it's the same origin structure, but vastly different forks that might have swung back to near congruent forks.

I’m familiar with “code-switching” and it doesn’t seem relevant here. This seems like a metaphorical use of “hard coding” the software term, which does seem to have leaked out into common usage. (Aside: my “Vanessa you’re being autistic about this” alarm is going off, I might be over-objecting)

Typically when you say 'she's coded as a straight character' it's code switching as the reference, though. It's character modeling terminology, and has been in use for describing traits and characteristics. Adding in 'hard' there pulls the other definition instead, 'hard coding' as immutable refs.

I think he does mean it in a programing way but the poster is conflating it with gay-coded, aka behaviors seen as gay