#but I feel like maybe I experience comphet a tad? because I look at cute couples like jenna and julien

[adustoflove]

I always think well if I dated a man, I wouldn't feel as insane. I wouldn't feel so awful or jealous. And then I remember why I came to the conclusion that I'm a lesbian. I just wouldn't care if it were a man. I just can't bring myself to care about men like that 😔😩😭

[radicalfemimist]

I hate, hate when people decide that characters are bisexual instead of gay because they exhibit obviously forced, obviously fake opposite-sex attraction. I find it really ignorant, honestly, because comphet is a pretty universal gay experience.

Like, maybe Zuzu isn’t bisexual just because he had (1) girlfriend and went on a date with a girl (Jin) once. The latter example of which was accepted on his behalf, and he thought Jin consistently visiting the place he worked and looking at him meant she was trying to expose him as a Firebender. Maybe his extremely forced heterosexual romance is a sham, and he’s really into one of the two guys he breaks into a place with and actually has some chemistry with?

Maybe Mike isn’t bisexual, and is instead just a closeted gay boy in the 80s whose friends accidentally peer-pressured him into dating the girl he was keeping in his basement. Like, are you saying he’s just a shitty person? Because if he is attracted to girls as well, he’s just an asshole and kind of a cheater.

Maybe Jamie Kelly isn’t bisexual just because she decided she has a “crush” on the boy Hudson Rivers she consistently describes as just the eighth-cutest boy in school, whom she literally knows nothing about even though she’s apparently ��obsessed” with him. Maybe she’s a lesbian and she’s actually interested in Angeline, the girl she has said:

“Angeline turned her cute up to about a seven, causing anybody directly in front of her to feel a mild, but pleasant, burning sensation.”

“My Superpowers of Boyishness have come with a super-weakness. Just like Superman is vulnerable to Kryptonite, my boy powers have made me weak and vulnerable in the way that Angeline makes ALL boys weak and vulnerable.”

those are lines taken directly from the book btw, and far from the only examples. but for concision I will refrain from talking too much about the things she has said about Angeline vs the things she has said about Hudson.

like what is the obsession with making characters bisexual? I mean, I know what the obsession is— they think it’s more progressive. Some people genuinely think portraying a M/F bisexual couple is just as important as portraying a same-sex couple, even though one of those examples will be dubbed into cousins or dubbed to be heterosexual, and one of them won’t.

There’s an idea nowadays that erasure / invalidation is some of the worst oppression you can face but not when homosexuals face it. It’s apparently biphobia to not want another bland straight romance because one or both characters is bi or commonly HC’d as such. It’s a “slur” to use the word “bihet”. I’ve even been told it’s racist to dislike a bland M/F romance because it was interracial and neither of the characters were white and as such, it’s progressive and must be applauded.

Don’t expect this to be coherent or have a conclusion; I don’t. I wrote all of this specifically because I was thinking about a fic I was reading had a bisexual Zuzu (and several other characters) even though they did not bother to tag it as such, and I was a tad peeved.