Caution: intellectual masturbation zone. Watch for flying spooge.

[mad_maudlin]

Okay. Here's Teh Essay, since I'm on my "lunch break." Sorry it's not more fandomy.

Comments

[nataliadarimini]

I heart you and your intellectual masturbation. And not even only for the fact that I get to be a werewolf. (When I picture this in my head it comes out like those people that try to be straight until they can't stand it anymore and then run off to another city for days of random hook-ups. Once a month seems mind-bogglingly frequent, so it isn't a very good picture, but it's mine and I like it. So there.)
Bi girls go incognito a lot more easily than boys because girls are allowed to notice that other girls are cute, but boys are not. This is reason #381 that I am glad that I have ovaries.
I was completely floored when I found out that bisexuals were unpopular in both the gay and straight communities. I've always been obscenely sheltered and I honestly thought that this meant I was like everybody, instead of nobody, and that we could all sit in a circle and sing songs or something. I'm still kind of peeved that we can't. I like singing.

[mad_maudlin]

I like singing too. And most of the time I can go along quite happily not being bothered by my sexual identity. It's just that everyone once in a while I get myself tangled up in the monosexual dichotomy and then get really angstful and want to go howl at the moon a bit. :-)

[annchen]

auooooooooooooooo!

[cabell]

This reminds me of a poem I wrote a year or two ago: http://poisonsoda.org/poem30.htm

Of course, in that case, the vampire metaphor is really NOT for homosexuality, but still.

[ceares]

Lovely, lovely analogy and commentary and very true-at least to my experience. And wow! You've increased my werewolf love.

[mad_maudlin]

I wonder if there's a statistical correlation between sexual orientation and werewolf appreciation?

(BTW, hello.)

[ceares]

Hmm, now you really have me thinking. I've loved werewolves since seeing The Wolfman, and thinking Larry Talbot was the cutest, saddest thing ever. I've always had a soft spot for the 'monster' in movies though, and I wonder about the correlation between that and my love of the fringe/taboo elements.

Um, also I think I need a werewolf icon *g*.

[pre_raphaelite1]

Here from hogwarts_todayYou have brought up some fascinating points that I really love. I've been doing a lot of work on the portrayal of Lupin and the elements of queerness in both the book and the film. (And I teach on monstrosity at the university, particular Vampires) And your conversation is sending me into nerdgasms. *laughs

[ellie_nor]

Afterall, society is clearly more accepting of bisexual females than males.

::nods:: The number of people who seriously don't believe in male bisexuality - he's really gay (cf. Freddie Mercury et al. ad nauseam). ::rolls eyes::

[mad_maudlin]

Hi, Pre-Raphaelite! (Can I call you "Ralph"? :-D) Don't mind the babbling

[ellie_nor]

That's brilliant. And you're not far off on the 'ravenous monster' bit either - isn't that one of the fears/hopes monosexuals have about bisexuals, that we're sexually ravenous monsters who are obsessed with sex and will do it with anything that moves? And I know some bisexuals who experience their sexuality as going in 'phases' of more or less attraction to one gender or another.
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[mad_maudlin]

Yeah, the "anything that moves" idea does fit nicely within the mainstream fears about bi people.

I've heard people talk about cyclical bisexuality, but I was trying not to go too far beyond my own experience in examples because I didn't want to end up talking out my ass. That's another good point about the metaphor.