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I heard the books made the lesbian character turn out straight in the end and tbh that's a big deal to me.

Not that I watch the show. I don't like the acting lol.

If you mean Emily, she turns out to be pansexual, although the term isn't used. There's a great line:

"[...]I thought it wasn't possible for me to like a guy, but I guess it is."

The little room was silent. Even the party seemed to have quieted down. Isaac ran his hands along the edge of his tie. "So, does this mean you're...bi? Or what?"

Emily dug her nails into the chaises plushy silk cushions. It would be so much easier if she just said she was straight, and that the stuff that had happened with Maya and Ali and Trista had been confused mistakes. But she knew that wasn't true.

"I don't know what I am," Emily answered quietly. "I wish I did, but I don't. Maybe I just like...people. Maybe it's the person, not necessarily their gender."

It's so weird how hard books/movies & tv avoid the word "bisexual."

nayrt

Orphan Black is the only place I've heard it, and even that has since switched to lesbian jokes.

It's like they think that "bisexual" is too technical or something. It's really weird.

Well, teenagers generally abbreviate things like that in everyday speech, and the character speaking is a teenager. Hell, I'm in my twenties and I don't know anyone my age who says "bisexual" instead of "bi".

Bi would be fine, too. It just seems like a cop out that I've seen this "I'm attracted to both women and men but I don't really know what I am, I guess we just don't need to talk about it" treatment of bisexuality more times than I can count.

This. If I hear one more goddamn bisexual TV/movie character say "I don't like labels" I'm going to scream.

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(Anonymous) - 2014-09-05 01:00 (UTC) - Expand

For real. It's the main reason my character says flat out that she's bi. Why it's even mentioned in the narrative - not her speech, not her thoughts, just the narrative. If it's ever published and someone says that she isn't bi, I'm gonna smack them across the face with the book.

Nobody has to use labels if they don't want to, but for god's sake, they exist for a reason, to help people understand!!

"Labels are for soup cans" and all the other phrases are BS for some people, when I found the term "sex repulsed" and learned what it meant and that other people felt it too, it was such a *relief*. I would rather have the label just so I know I'm not alone.

Labels aren't meant to be slurs, but some people take them that way. And rather than combating it by reclaiming the word, people tend to be all, "nooo, we don't label".

(Anonymous) - 2014-09-05 02:49 (UTC) - Expand

Did they? I just remember "sexuality is a continuum."

"I have never thought about bisexuality. I mean, for myself, you know? But, as a scientist, I know that sexuality is a spectrum."

She wasn't exactly claiming the term for herself, but she was thankfully at least not putting it in a negative light.

So true, and so very aggravating.

I think it depends a bit on the setting. I don't particularly mind Jemisin not using the word in speculative fiction worlds that never had an Ebing-Krafft. But something derivative of contemporary American or European culture? I find it hard to believe it wouldn't come up.

Having a bisexual character in the books was a big deal to me and the TV show took that away :/

As of now in the books, Emily just had a girlfriend die so unless something happens in the final book she's not turning out straight.

those are some skinny arms

photoshopped to hell and back anyway

It doesn't sound like you've watched the show (you say 'from what you've heard) so how do you know how different it is and/or if it is better or worse?

disclaimer: I don't even know what this is.

it's pretty little liars

I didn't know the books were different. I decided not to read them because I didn't want to read through x seasons of A shenanigans and secrets I already knew about. But if the books are different... anyone know how different? Are they worth reading?

I haven't watched the show in full but I've been kind of keeping up with it and the series has characters that have never appeared in the books. Some characters that probably would have been dead if they followed the books are still alive in the show.

The books are different, but they're pretty poorly written, and even more of a pseudo-twisty cliche fest than the show.

The show is better, but neither are amazing.

Sounds like you haven't even seen the show.

But consider this. For me, for instance, I wouldn't know the books without the show. But I found the show and loved it and have been buying the books since and loving both. And I'm sure quite a few others had the same reaction.

Different doesn't equal bad and it sure isn't as bad as you make it sound.

I watch the show but have only read a couple of the books. FWIW, the books do have better treatment of Ezria and Wren/Spencer in that they acknowledge both of them to be super effed up, but the TV show has much more sophisticated and interesting execution of all of the crazy plotting, which is why I abandoned the books.