[ SECRET POST #6764 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6764 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Comments

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[(Anonymous)]

I always interpreted the line as calling out the "some" group of people on their biphobia for actually believing that in the first place.

Possibly my interpretation was even more out-there and overly generous than yours, OP, but that was always my take on it just the same.

[(Anonymous)]

Sounds like how I would read it too.

[dimity_blue]

Yeah, that was how I interpreted it too.

[(Anonymous)]

But your reading makes no sense??? That doesn't flow with the info provided before.

[(Anonymous)]

I had the same interpretation as you and never really thought about it. I had no idea there was drama about it.

[(Anonymous)]

I never heard of this song before so I read this secret 5 times trying to comprehend it and still don't. I'm ace too so it makes for pretty good gestalt/personality quiz maybe.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, okay, just googled it and it's a Friends song so not that deep. I call for Friends dislikers erasure.

[(Anonymous)]

Okay this one made me laugh. How did you not get that it was a song from Friends from the secret? Who did you think the person in the secret was?

[(Anonymous)]

Ayrt - Phoebe’s actress is the blandest white woman and I just never cared for Friends so it could be TSwift for all I care…

[(Anonymous)]

I always interpreted it the same way you did. It never occurred to me that there might be any other meaning until I saw your secret.

[(Anonymous)]

I mean, I think the correct interpretation is probably the first one, and...I don't think it's bi-erasure at all, and it makes sense in the context of the time. There were a lot of people then (and I'm sure there are still some now) who fooled around with the same-sex and said they were bi as an exploratory or attention-getting thing and came out the other side straight as an arrow. I knew quite a few lesbians and gay men at the turn of the century who had been burned by that sort of person, and I don't think it's particularly useful to pretend they've never existed, even though doing so can complicate things.

[(Anonymous)]

To be fair I’m not sure the 90s were the best time to pretend to be gay in history but uh sure

[(Anonymous)]

The '90s was when public perception started to shift and sympathetic and positive representations of gay people started appearing in the media. 'Friends' itself showed Carol and Susan as having a loving relationship and being good parents to Ben. We would not have seen states start legalizing civil uniond, and then full marriage, in the early aughts had it not been for the progress made in the decade prior.

Does this mean that it was great everywhere in the '90s? No, of course not. But there were definitely places where it was no longer a big deal, NYC being one of them.

[(Anonymous)]

You could tell me anything about Friends and I'd believe it.

[(Anonymous)]

I always interpreted it, from the kid's look at Chandler, that it was a poke at the hoary gay trope of you can't be bi you have to be gay. Phoebe was way too pan to poke fun at bisexuals, I mean she would make sweet love to a squirrel.