#hes ALSO biphobic lest we forget

[genderkoolaid]

okay so rewatching hbomberguy's new video, James Somerton has:

Called ND Stevenson and Rebecca Sugar women so he can make a point about how queer women have it easier

stolen an Asian transmasc person's very personal essay on Mulan and queer Asian identity

stolen from Alexander Avila, the One somewhat well known transmasc video essayist

Lied about English courts letting Radclyffe Hall "live her happy life" because perceived-female queerness wasn't legally persecuted, when in actuality, they were charged with obscenity and had their work destroyed

clearly a man whose very normal and chill about transmascs and anyone he sees as a woman i think

[jonny-versace]

I saw your response to the other anon and I was shocked!! It’s about time someone says it wasn’t biphobia. I’m so sick of that being thrown on aaron. Being massively insecure with a bad history doesn’t make you biphobic. Idk where that came from? I’m bi, I see him as an insecure man who feels like there’s no chance someone could want him alone (I’m similar) they came from an affair ffs!! & Rob was all over HER to con the Whites I thought for sure cheating was coming Rob was cagey AF!!

well, I don't think it's as simple as that. undoubtedly some of the things he said and some of the concepts being thrown around by him (and a couple of others) were biphobic, I just think you have to consider context and intent vs outcome. so with Aaron, the context was his general mental health state/myriad unresolved issues re himself plus how they started/the affair plus Robert's plotty shiftiness at the time. I don't think the intent was to be biphobic, from a character perspective it doesn't really make sense for Aaron since he was the first one to call Robert bisexual waaaay back at the start, I struggle to see him point blank not being able to understand what it is a concept. and I have a hard time imagining Emmerdale bts being a seething cauldron of anti bisexual sentiment that they took out on Robert lol. so i think the intent was much more likely that his struggles and trust issues and Robert's behaviour and everything manifested in him saying things that were really about HIMSELF and ROBERT and THEM but we're absolutely biphobic, but that doesn't make him biphobic either as a character in-universe or as a voice of the show, does that make sense? him accusing Robert of being with him to keep his options open till something better came along (in his mind what was happening with Rebecca) is reference to his issues with worth and their trust issues and Robert's history but for whatever reason it came out the way it did.

and while we're speaking of intent, I think you've also got to consider "characters as an audience surrogate". so like when a character will say something or ask something as the stand in for the audience (for me the best example of that is just after the abuse reveal where Gordon gets inside Robert's head and makes him question Aaron over the possibility of it maybe not happening the way he remembers). so when you have the weird biphobic comments from characters you'd expect better of like Aaron and Charity, and even to some degree Rebecca (does anybody think a young faux hippy traveller wouldn't know what a bisexual is???), consider that they're saying things or asking things that are being said and asked by the audience (lest we forget heteroflexible "gay for Aaron" comments). which, while yes still biphobic, would have been way worse if it weren't for Robert and his bisexuality ultimately being vindicated (he won!).

this is already super long and there's other things that could be talked about here but tldr you're right that to call him outright biphobic isn't the wave however that doesn't absolve the /biphobic things/ that were said by him, it's just not as black/white as that