And it's only with the recent discussions about sexuality in slash fandom and all the comments about "fandom bisexuals" that something really obvious struck me: they can't both be true at the same time.
I confess, I'm seriously tempted to make a Schrödinger's Bisexual icon now. Only I have a feeling people would take it to mean that when you open the box, you find out whether she's really gay/straight.
And if a straight girl enjoys making out with other girls that doesn't make her a "fake bisexual", that makes her a straight girl who enjoys making out with other girls.
I think huge parts of this come out of a lot of people being fundamentally unhappy with the idea of any non-simple sexualities. 100% gay and 100% straight are (to these people, not necessarily in reality) simple. Everything else? Complicated, and therefore suspect. (It reminds me a bit of people going "Well, it's colder than usual this winter in my area, therefore global warming is FAKE!", because a climate system more complicated than the entire world changing in tandem is incomprehensible to them.)
...this whole aspect of the conversation is just exhausting me incredibly.
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I confess, I'm seriously tempted to make a Schrödinger's Bisexual icon now. Only I have a feeling people would take it to mean that when you open the box, you find out whether she's really gay/straight.
And if a straight girl enjoys making out with other girls that doesn't make her a "fake bisexual", that makes her a straight girl who enjoys making out with other girls.
I think huge parts of this come out of a lot of people being fundamentally unhappy with the idea of any non-simple sexualities. 100% gay and 100% straight are (to these people, not necessarily in reality) simple. Everything else? Complicated, and therefore suspect. (It reminds me a bit of people going "Well, it's colder than usual this winter in my area, therefore global warming is FAKE!", because a climate system more complicated than the entire world changing in tandem is incomprehensible to them.)
...this whole aspect of the conversation is just exhausting me incredibly.