[ SECRET POST #3552 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3552 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know, man. If somebody wants to identify one way or another, that's their business. Obviously it's a little different for a fictional character but it seems like a reasonable enough choice.

[(Anonymous)]

+1

It's not that the other characters forced the "you're with a woman, ergo you're gay" thing down her throat. She chose the identity for herself. That makes it a valid choice, IMHO. It's not the same as characters who are consistently and obviously shown as being bisexual but the writers thrown out cliches like "we're not labelling..."

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah. I mean, I know someone who was married to a man before meeting a woman, and she has apparently said she didn't even know she was gay until meeting her. Does that make her bi? Maybe, but that's not how she identifies, so...

[(Anonymous)]

It's completely different for a fictional character. She wasn't written to identify as lesbian instead of bisexual because that's something that really happens. She was written that way because the straight man who wrote her didn't understand enough about lesbianism and bisexuality. Did she even consider the possibility that she was bi? I don't remember exactly but I greatly doubt it.

[(Anonymous)]

She was also written some ~20 years ago, where representation of the entire queer spectrum was limited at best and almost wholly nonexistent in mainstream media. Very very few in the industry 'understood enough about lesbian and bisexuality' back then to adequately represent its nuances. Which may not excuse it, but if you're talking about the context of a character's development/creation/etc, you have to look at it as a whole, and that includes the framework of its period, which was much much more limited and simplified than ours.

[(Anonymous)]

I know, I lived through that period. And that's why I think it's fine to call her bisexual in current discussions even though the show didn't.

[(Anonymous)]

But redefining a 90s character through present eyes completely changes what that character was and meant. The character herself identifies as gay, and a large number of gay women identified with and connected with that character at that time for precisely that reason. Does it suck that bisexual women couldn't do the same? Sure. But you just can't reverse-engineer an existent canonical identity through a modern lens without fundamentally changing it.

[cbrachyrhynchos]

Characters can be read in multiple ways by the audience. One person's bisexual interpretation doesn't erase another's lesbian interpretation.

[(Anonymous)]

The point I'm trying to make here is that I don't think the character identifying as a lesbian is necessarily wrong for the character, whatever the actual reasons behind why she was written that way.

[kallanda_lee]

This is true. But, what a fictional character identifies as has a lot to do with the creators and their world views.