Bisexuality IS An Option -- And An Intriguing One, At That

[originalpuck]

Is slash canon? Well, that's the question that has been prominently displayed on metafandom, and in every BNF's journal across the web. And, predictably, I've been following this debate with a lot of enthusiasm. Unfortunately, this whole mess has left me (a pansexual woman) with a headache and a vague feeling that the general slash community is turning a

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[sora_kainomori]

Does Bicuriousity count too? As for someone who just wants to experiment.

I don't know why people count out bisexuality either, I suppose everyone just associates it with Tila Tequila, who IMO gave a bad wrap to bisexual people. That's interesting that people wouldn't even look into it further. I have some bisexual characters in my story and I feel like it's an easy way for some depth of character as they try to figure out just one aspect of what they truly want. This is just my opinion but people will argue about anything.

[originalpuck]

Erm...who is Tila Tequila?

And yeah, bicurious is another option outside of the 100% straight-or-gay options. Unfortunately, in the meta that was mentioned, bi-anything wasn't really being discussed -- which led to my over-all WTF *facepalm* reaction/post.

After the responses that I've been getting to this, I think I might need to do a seperate post about bisexuals in fiction. ^^

[sora_kainomori]

Tila Tequila
Even the wikipedia doesn't have it right. They assume that all the women are lesbian, when in actuality I believe that only a small handful were lesbian. @_@. Anyway, I only know about this through my roommates who watch her show religiously.

That would be an interesting post about bisexuals in fiction.

[originalpuck]

Well, that show sounds like a damned good reason for me to wish I had cable -- it sounds like it would be interesting as hell to check out!

[sora_kainomori]

It's not as interesting as they make it sound on wikipedia. She's just obnoxious. But you can go Here and look for the full episodes there if you're still interested. I don't think that's the first episode if that link even works. ^^

[13_tezcatlipoca]

After the responses that I've been getting to this, I think I might need to do a seperate post about bisexuals in fiction. ^^

I think that would be a Very Good Thing. You know, for all the ranting that right wing westerners do about "queer saturation" in the media, that list of LGBT characters in TV shows certainly put paid to that, i.e. there were so few that it actually surprised me.

Heh, just noticed in my original post I put "friend's brother" rather than "boyfriend's brother". Interesting side-effect of the fact that I don't normally discuss sec-shu-al matters online period ;)