The overwhelming reaction from the sapphic internet to Maya Hawke’s sponteneous wedding to a guy has been “Huh, thought she was a lesbian, my bad and congrats!” and the thing is (if I may be allowed to speculate based on the work she’s put out), she probably likes girls, too. Whatever her specific sexual orientation is, she decided to keep it private, and good for her. There was no way it was going to be good PR for her to come out as queer, engage in all this sapphic media, and then marry a cis dude. She knows how people react to that these days. It’s bad. Nobody cares what the literal definition of bisexuality is, they only care to blame the entire existance of homophobia and lesbophobia on the existance of bisexuals, especially bi women, just living their personal lives.
The sad part is, the internet gays are nicer and more accepting towards straight women than they are to bi women, who are seen as fence-sitting traitors to queerness, giving men the idea that lesbians are available to them, and closet tradwives that only perform queerness to queerbait. And the cost of that is this deliberate reduction in bi rep because publicly coming out as bi isn’t worth it. Tell me again how further erasing and marginalising bisexuals wasn’t the intention all along.
