finndamerons: its bad enough that bisexuality in women is seen as “attention seeking” or as some sort of “joke” by mainstream Straight™ culture, but when the actual lgbt community deny bisexuals….when lesbian women dont wanna date bi girls bc they doubt their ability to stay faithful and think bi girls are gonna hop on the next straight… Continue reading

This is kind of related to your last ask…but I have a question about representing sexuality in comics. Why are a lot of artists trying so hard to more or less shoe-horn gay or bi characters in their comics for the sake of having them there? Even when the focus of the story isn’t romantic at all, it’s like some people just tick off boxes for certain characters to be gay. I can understand wanting to be inclusive, but it does seem like people are really pressured to have sexual diversity now.

secondlina: arythusa: I think the simplest way to answer this is to adapt a question I asked in the last response: If you’re going to ask, “Why should this character be queer?” you should also ask yourself, “Why should this character be straight?”  To paraphrase your words, why do we have so many straight characters in our… Continue reading This is kind of related to your last ask…but I have a question about representing sexuality in comics. Why are a lot of artists trying so hard to more or less shoe-horn gay or bi characters in their comics for the sake of having them there? Even when the focus of the story isn’t romantic at all, it’s like some people just tick off boxes for certain characters to be gay. I can understand wanting to be inclusive, but it does seem like people are really pressured to have sexual diversity now.

persephonesidekick: trans-goddex: obstinatecondolement: dear-monosexuals: cease-and-de-cis: atomicbubblegum: cease-and-de-cis: So I reblog a lot of things that group all bi people under “bisexual” even though biromantics and other forms of attraction exist. It’s weird that I do this because I’m not even bisexual really, I’m bi for other reasons… But like.. fighting people’s tendency to erase ace… Continue reading