What people think is on my bingo card

[lightcastle]

A friend on Facebook put this picture on my wall, saying it made her think of me.

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[melebeth]

That is awesome.

[lightcastle]

It is rather lovely, isn't it? (Mind you, I think "woman in film-noir men's wear" is on both of our bingo cards.)

[melebeth]

Just a bit :)

[lightcastle]

I think I got too rambly with my explanation of bingo to misskitty below.

[misskitty_79]

What's this about bingo?

[lightcastle]

The concept of "bingo cards" for various activities has been around for a while. (I'm surprised it doesn't have its own entry on urbandictionary.)

Anything that is expected to come up again and again can be flagged into a bingo card, and then you can see if it gets filled out. You often see it online for things like discussing Ev Psych, or Racism. (You will make an "racism bingo card" and see how many of the classic bullshit arguments show up.)

Fetish Bingo, or Kink Bingo, or Moe Bingo, or Attraction Bingo work on a similar principle. You put all the known things that person goes for on a 5x5 grid and see if a picture/movie/person/event fills them out. (Kendra used to joke that "active consent" was my free space.)

So when you have a picture with:
"hot woman"
"film noir"
"woman in suspenders"
"woman in suit/men's clothing"
"tentacles"
"gaming"

and the person says "it made me think of you", then it is pretty clear they think those are on your bingo card. ^_^

[melebeth]

whereas on mine it crosses off

androgynous woman
hot woman
woman in hat
women in men's clothing
tentacles
film noir

[lightcastle]

Ooh. I should have added "in hat".
Admittedly "women in film noir men's clothing" sort of covers both the suspenders and the hat, but I suspect those are each their own square, and it is just happy circumstance that overlaps.

[stateofwonder]

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

[lightcastle]

*smile*

Shall we say you and I have some overlap on the bingo card as well?

[stateofwonder]

Oh, very much so. On pretty much everything but the gaming.

It's interesting though, I've pretty much always seen the bingo cards used in a negative sense. I've seen bingo cards for derailing in race discussions, for sexism in various fandoms, for evolutionary psychology.. that kind of thing. Also, hipsters. I've never seen it used for individuals.

[lightcastle]

*nod*

I certainly encountered it primarily in the derailing conversations sense.

Given numerous people's reactions, I wonder if I really did just slide it over to apply to people's turn ons on my own or if that came from somewhere else.

On pretty much everything but the gaming.

LOL - yeah, that one seems pretty much just me.

(I can't help but note that I'm pretty sure you could pull that look off, btw.)