macabremiss:

Obviously being a Bi person myself doesn’t mean I speak for the whole community, but I just watched the new Good Place episode and I’m having a hard time seeing people’s insistence that Eleanor needs to make out with a woman on screen as anything but BS. She clearly hits on Simone, she mentions having a crush on a girl in the past, and while she doesn’t use the word on herself, she does acknowledge bi as a legit sexuality. Now, I don’t mean to come off as condescending but the Good Place is a comedy. We’re meant to laugh at Eleanor hitting on Simone because she’s supposed to be helping Chidi not because being Bisexual or into women is funny. For me personally, not every Bi character needs to prove anything, and they certainly don’t need to treat their sexuality as seriously as some of you want from them. The guy who created this show literally created B99 where a character recently came out and said the word bisexual A LOT, and that was important. For Eleanor it’s not as important and I think that’s okay too.  It’s not Queerbaiting when a character doesn’t ascribe to your idea of how sexuality needs to be preformed.