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.
“i’ll never be a real adult” i say as i work 40 hours a week at a stuffy office job, come home and spend the evening cooking and cleaning before relaxing on the couch with the 2019 ikea catalogue
the statements “Twilight is extremely problematic” and “a lot of the vitriol directed at Twilight at the height of its popularity was rooted largely in misogyny” can both be true at the same time yknow
to all of the jewish people that may be reading this, i hope you and your families are safe today. i hope that you are able to grieve with your community and hold on to each other and hold each other up.
i am thinking of you all. i am thinking of our communities and our people.
The thing about being LGBT+ is, at some point in your childhood, no matter how accepting your parents are, at some point, you have to question: “do they love me unconditionally?” And then you have to plan for the possibility hat the answer is no. And that fucks you up. Straight cis people never have to question that.
So one of our new vocabulary words is “malus”, meaning “bad”, and I asked my students if they could think of any English derivatives, telling them that just about any English word that begins with M-A-L is going to mean something “bad”.
I’m expecting stuff like: malice, malcontent, malnourished, or even malware or Maleficent.
Instead I get this one girl in the back of the room say “male” with the most dead-eyed expression.
This has the same energy as two years ago when another student said she remembered “vir” meant “man” because “it looks like virus, and men are a virus”.
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