People need to engage with the fact that the monosexist assumption that bisexuals are either gay or straight coexists with the homophobic assumption that gay people (esp. lesbians) must be bisexual, since mistakes like this illustrate why "monosexual" doesn't work as a category.
@Oracle_Morosis i also feel like not many know that the word was adapted into academic text by stekel, a freud loyalist who believed everyone was born bi and that "monosexualism" (as in identifying exclusively homosexual OR heterosexual) was a "neurosis" that could be corrected w therapy ๐ญ
expecting queer people to find universal relatability in het stories just promotes cultural conformity that erases our queer difference. i'm sure if i read a few het stories, i would find a character i could relate to, but why should i? i'm not like you and i don't want to be
this isn't even about relatability, it's about making a deliberate choice to not assimilate into the heterosexual cultural framework established in mainstream media
@lavender_too like i would think twice before connecting him to a misogynistic murderer and misogynistic rapist???? i'm not even gonna consider the rest of the cons bc how did you even get past the implications of the first two sksfkdflkf
...........you guys cannot be this desperate omg are you really sure you want to be making those connections to neuvillette?????? have you actually thought this through ๐ญ
there is no such thing as "specific, strict, hamfisted queer shape". queer people are not all the same and not all of us are relatable to one another, and yet we watch media of other queer people who are different from us. the suspension of heterosexuality in our fiction is not a
this is pretty much the accepted opinion from people who can actually see furina as her own character. the unfortunate crux of the matter is that hetsloppers see a man and woman in a room and their cognitive function shuts down before they can think further
alongside 1:1 comparisons w /all/ their involved characters + relationships and correlate them directly to furinaโs life, their stories mean nothing to her coding, be that bisexual or lesbian
i keep seeing this argument and unfortunately, it's pretty clear that the people saying this have not engaged w the source material at all. so, here: thread explaining furinaโs constellations, the operas they reference + why they're largely irrelevant to her coding