[ SECRET POST #2802 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2802 ⌋

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[Warriors]


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[Harry Potter]


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[Sweet Fuse: At Your Side]


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[Stargate Atlantis]


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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

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."

[(Anonymous)]

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

[(Anonymous)]

nayrt

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

[(Anonymous)]

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

[(Anonymous)]

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".

[(Anonymous)]

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.

[(Anonymous)]

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

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, yes.

[(Anonymous)]

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)]

NAYRT but I agree so hard. Labels aren't inherently oppressive. No one's jumping on people for calling themselves Gryffindors or English majors, so what's wrong with labeling your own sexuality? Sure, people are more complicated than that, but that doesn't mean they're useless.

[cbrachyrhynchos]

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

[(Anonymous)]

"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.

[(Anonymous)]

So true, and so very aggravating.

[cbrachyrhynchos]

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.