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fandomsecrets2013-03-07 06:46 pm
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Re: Best friend/bisexuality drama
(Anonymous) 2013-03-09 01:19 am (UTC)(link)Ahh, ok. I'm curious if you've ever brought up the self-questioning part to any one of them... I'm bi, too, but I have to admit that ime, the majority of people who have brought up "sexuality is not black and white" (which I do agree on) were thinking of that grayness in terms of being life phases (oh, lots of school girls get a little crush on female friends!) and were hoping I would "eventually choose", specifically heterosexuality. So I have a bit of a kneejerk reaction when it comes up and have to remind myself to listen to the context. No idea if that's what's happening with your friends.
And I think it's not a totally unheard-of experience to have this line of questioning happen in a group of gay friends. Happened to a friend of one of my siblings (but afaik they were more like "Wha? ...Huh. Ok."). And I apologize for my gratuitous comic examples, but the series Dykes to Watch Out For has a lesbian character who, after finding herself interested in a man, has to figure out how this fits in with her identity, with the attendant criticisms/acceptances/etc from others, eventually deciding on "bisexual lesbian" -- an arc about which the author writes was her "barely keep[ing] up" with different lesbian self-identities but which she saw and wanted to address.
...Forgot about it until now, but there's even a strip where two of that character's friends talk about the feeling of betrayal (can't find the strip online and don't have a way to get it online atm); one argues that she feels left in the lurch because the friend will get approval and support from everyone else in the world in the new relationship that they won't necessarily ever get themselves, and just how different her life will be. More speculation, I realize... I don't know if these are the sorts of things you want to ask any of the non-supportive friends about, to understand what's going on, or if these are even possibly in the ballpark.
Hang in there :(