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WCDT Strips 3536 to 3540 (31st July to 4th August 2017)
Gyrre:
--- Quote from: fayelovesbubbles on 31 Jul 2017, 13:37 ---I don't think Clinton is into guys...is he? even if he is, his main focus right now is surely Brun.
I can't help thinking they'd be a strange couple if they did get together. Yet, there hasn't been a gay male couple in this comic other than Marten's dad and stepdad...I think...
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As I understand it, if both parties are bi, it's still a bi-sexual relationship. Even if it's m/m.
EDIT: Speaking as a straight male, I'm admittedly somewhat ignorant on the matter. But, I do know that their is some ... er ... disagreement on the matter within the LGBTQ community.
Emperor Norton:
--- Quote from: oddtail on 30 Jul 2017, 22:49 ---Nobody is EVER bisexual in fiction. OK, women occasionally are, but men are virtually NEVER anything but straight or gay. The only characters that are the exception to this almost universal rule seem to be characters of the "I'll screw anything that moves" variety, often villains.
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John Constantine from the Hellblazer comics is the only one I can think of (and specifically his is treated as literally no big deal, which I appreciate). But yeah, bisexual men are by far the least represented in fiction of the LGBT groups. (Well, trans men actually are probably #1, I can't think of a single one, then bi men, then trans women).
St.Clair:
--- Quote from: SmilingCat on 31 Jul 2017, 16:31 ---
--- Quote from: ChipNoir on 31 Jul 2017, 04:44 ---I've been relating to Marten for a long time now, and actually appreciate him as an example...of, well, bi I'm not so certain is quite the right term. Like someone said before, bisexual males are REALLY rare, and are usually portrayed as more pansexual than bisexual (I'm looking at you Dorian Grey of Penny Dreadful, you horny asshole). So I had a big problem with identifying as bisexual, since I felt like that was an image that confused and kinda scared me.
Ever since I spent a lot more time with a larger variety of personality types, I've accepted that I'm less gay so much as very attracted to personality and physical attributes that are 'traditionally' associated with masculinity; Short hair, muscles, jocular personality, aggressive confidence (Not always a good thing, but attractive none-the-less) etc etc, stuff that my younger self very much associated with men. As I've gotten older, I've realized that these are all attractive features a woman can have, and that if it came down to it, that's all I really care about in a partner. At this point I could probably easily have a relationship with either sex/gender, as long as I felt those personality traits and identifiers were there. In the last few years Claire has also made me realize that yeah, I could fall in love with a transgender, and very happy with him.
So Martin is kinda on the flipside of my own tastes: He has no problem with the anatomy, so much as what the identification is. Claire identifies as female, and that's what makes her attractive to Marten, as opposed to a gay/bi guy that at the end of the day still identifies as the guy, and whatever spectrum of masculinity he might be placed on.
Of course having just been sandwiched by two different sexes at a dance club in this recent week has definetly further changed my openness to experimentation.
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I have no personal frame of reference to work from, but increasingly it appears that any system that attempts to codify sexuality into a discrete set of terms with simple descriptors is doomed to be insufficient.
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holy shit
guys
people are complicated!
Tub:
--- Quote from: Gyrre on 31 Jul 2017, 23:48 ---As I understand it, if both parties are bi, it's still a bi-sexual relationship. Even if it's m/m.
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I think the proper term is "they're in a relationship". Unless it's an open relationship, it doesn't (shouldn't) matter who else they might be attracted to. IMHO adding that information shows a lack of faith in the relationship.
Gyrre:
--- Quote from: shanejayell on 31 Jul 2017, 20:45 ---Nor have I, as you can get arrested.
Or in this case, chucked out by Elliot.... :-D
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For me it's more from both being a former germaphobe and having had to clean public restrooms as part of a few retail jobs.
*shudders in disgust*
EDIT: death to autocorrect!
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