#to be attracted to a woman instead

[kitteneddiediaz]

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[grassbreads]

Man, genuinely there's little that excites me more than encountering queerness in fiction where I wasn't expecting it. I'm gonna be thinking about Kikuhiko/Yakumo from SGRS for so long.

Even setting aside the subtext of his feelings for Sukeroku, the narrative around his relationship to gender norms and his own expression is so fascinating. Guy who grows up steeped in rigid 40s gender roles and actively tries to enforce them, yet only truly feels like himself when he's acting on stage as a woman. Guy who says his life would have been better if he were born a woman and then refuses to elaborate.

[pjharvey-moved]

i’m gradually coming around on both sabrina carpenter and chappell roan but only their music and only a handful of songs i find both their whole personas obnoxious and i think sabrina carpenter needs to dump that man asap

[gender-critical-analytical]

the way some of you clearly think bisexuals don't experience actual attraction and feelings for people, but rather decide ahead of time if they want a man or a woman this time and then just go and pick whoever comes into their line of sight next is so obvious and definitely makes me think you all don't need to speak on things you don't know about

[lucydacusgirl]

I love reading essays about bisexuality but it is crazy how we’ve been have the same conversations for over thirty years. Bisexuals have been critiquing the ‘straight passing’ narrative since the 90s (and I’m sure longer) and yet I still have to see it any time bisexuals are mentioned in queer spaces. Like.

(From ‘Challenging the Stereotypes’ by Amanda Udis-Kessler, Bisexual Horizons 1996)

I find it really striking that she says that biphobia from within the community ‘gets in the way of bisexuals working for lesbian/gay rights and dignity’ because I see a lot of people talking about how biphobia from within the community isn’t oppression and I’m not gonna argue about whether it is or not but it absolutely does deny us our dignity.

People constantly make fun of the way that bi people are desperate to affirm their queerness like mocking bi girls who talk about liking women and being bisexual while having a boyfriend with no mention of the fact that that insecurity is based in the constant belittling and ridiculing of bisexual people within the community.

Bisexuals are always always seen as traitors or tryhards or both. We cannot win we can’t do anything right. (Except decide that we’re actually gay or straight)

[billford-dump]

Bill's humanoid form, in the mindscape at least, is put together from pieces of what Ford subconsciously considers most attractive, mixed with Bill's personal aesthetic. He originally made it for manipulation purposes, since people are more likely to trust those who they find attractive (anglerfish know whats up). He doesn't like using it much but Ford's flustered reactions when he drapes himself over the nerd are absolutely adorable.

The key word as far as descriptions go is humanoid. From a distance it may look normal, but when you get closer it's very clearly not human. He gives off a strong uncanny valley vibe. If you ask Ford, it just looks exotic rather than creepy.

For Ford, the appeal is less that he looks like a human and more that he doesn’t look like a human, and it only serves to highlight how alien Bill really is. At first glance it’s all well and good, but the longer he looks the more clear it becomes that the form is only human in the same way that eyespots on a butterfly are eyes. He could just reach forward and peel off that illusion and Bill would be underneath with an amused crinkle in his eye, saying “if you wanted me to stay in this form, all you had to do was ask, Sixer.”

[endykelopaedia]

every now and then i question bisexuality in myself but all my thoughts for men that i maybe sorta would be interested in if i squint come with the caviat *if this were a beautiful butch woman*

[avoteforme]

it's the same picture as-

[dennisboobs]

i think everyone on sunnytwt needs to be sat down so i can explain to them what basic human empathy is. and then maybe i put them in a blender until they agree to write meta about the characters instead of whether or not charlie day got facial reconstruction surgery.

[theophagie-remade]

Having Caleb as the official eng translator is hell because due to all the times he's been outright wrong (eg "you sorry excuse of a brother") (boy) or used the weirdest phrasing possible (eg "remember when Shigaraki made swiss cheese outta me") (boy) oftentimes I look at things and go "these are the same but not the same and I don't know who to trust more"

[eugeniedanglars]

society if felisa valdez had been brought back as eddie's love interest instead of marisol

[rinmemesuoka]

will never understand the compulsion to jump into the replies of a tweet or tumblr post openly thirsting about a fat woman to go "she looks like she gives Great Hugs!" hello? why do you think this is a contribution you need to make to a conversation about fucking a fat woman

[asexualsimonsnow]

A few people in the tags on my Agatha romance plot line poll are voicing the same sorts of thoughts I had. I did not like her romance plot line because she had all these lines in the two previous books that, to me and many others, were implying her aromanticism. To have a chapter from her POV where she expresses feeling broken due to a suspected inability to feel that type of attraction only to later have this “resolved” by her finding the right person was extremely frustrating and disappointing.

Even beyond an aro reading of the character, it’s disappointing to see her coupled up at the end of the third book. So much of the first book was about subverting the expectations that come from these types of stories. One of these expectations seemed to me to be not just that the chosen one gets the perfect girl, but that all the characters are neatly coupled up by the end and have romance as a part of their story. In the first book not only is Agatha not with Simon, the chosen one, her supposed destiny, she’s not interested in coupling up and fulfilling that expectation placed on her by the world in which she lives and by the type of story she inhabits, at all. It feels like backtracking on her character growth to watch a romance play out for her in the third book.

[catgirltoes]

Gotta be honest the constant objectification of women's bodies is a bit tiring sometimes.

[watermelinoe]

anon when gnc bi women exist: 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

anon when bi women who are same-sex preferenced and openly date women exist: 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

anon when bi women can still experience biphobic abuse from their male partners: 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

anon when bi women have the highest rates of rape and abuse among all sexual minority demographics: 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

nooooo you don't understand it's HOMOPHOBIA but don't you dare claim to experience homophobia!!!! and you can't call it biphobia either because that would mean you're oppressed for being bisexual, which for some reason would mean you can be oppressed "for being other-sex attracted" and gay people are your oppressors i guess (it would not mean this)

[youngestdaughtersyndrome]

Really glad to see so many of my mutuals hating on the word girlhood. Welcome ..... ive been here the whole time