Oh yeah, the rest of the world is horrible
So, sometimes I forget that "the others" - you know, normal people, aren't initiated with the "social justice" conversation that becomes so commonplace on Tumblr. I mean, no matter what kind of blog you run or follow eventually between the porn and the fanart and the headcanons and the pictures of cats and birds, someone will be going off the wall about some CisHet White Male that pissed them off. Well here I am, folks, fanning THAT fire.
Because look, I have some pretty amazing friends. But I this one friend who is just the odd duck out. He loves roleplaying and he's into geeky stuff so in many ways he fits just like a glove. But in others...eh. He's conservative and religious and bullheaded and sometimes says things that just make me recoil in horror.
So on Friday, we went to karaoke since its one of my (only) indulgences that I partake in without my wife. So I'm the Designated Driver this evening, too, so that probably didn't help that my friends were getting three sheets to the wind over the course of the night and me and drmoreautamis got into an interesting conversation about Cherik.
See, I have kind of a running/bet curiosity on when SOMEONE is going to have the balls to pull the trigger on these gay-baiting slash relationships. Will it been Teen Wolf? SPN? Will Fox finally make romantic Cherik official in X-Men Apocalypse? Or will Sony actually have the guts to make Spiderman bi-sexual because audiences will NOT be willing to accept a Mary Jane Watson right now consider Emma Stone just rocked too hard at Gwen Stacy.
Will it be Johnlock? Seems like a safe bet, until you realize Moffat and crew have basically turned gay-baiting into some kind of twisted artform.
And then, of course, Stucky.
But I'm digressing...
You see, my CisHet friend who I'm gonna call Bruce loved Magneto. It's his favorite Marvel character, and he overhears my vehement defense of Magneto (because yes I am a Magneto sympathizer) and we reveal we're talking about whether or not Cherik will be official in the next X-Men movie.
Well believe you me - did Bruce have a lot to say about that.
You see- he thinks Charles and Erik are soulmates. And I agree. But he thinks that Charles and Erik go "beyond" sex - that you can love each other and not want to have sex with them.
Which...yes. I also agree.
He seemed to imply, however, but "labeling" them and bring sex into the equation we were someone "debasing" them as a couple. Cheapening it, per se. Well, I disagreed of course. Personally, I think when you love someone to the level of "soulmates" then your perceived sexuality is secondary - but you DO reach a level where you want to give them everything, including sex. I'm not saying for EVERY situation this is the case, but once I do subscribe to with my OTPs.
Well, he was trying to tell me how he loved his (male) friends just as much or more than he's loved any woman, but he never wanted to have sex with them. Fine. But I tried to explain that they platonic love he felt for drmoreautamis and crew wasn't the same as True Love that I felt for my wife, for example.
He asked, would I still love araniaart if I couldn't have sex with her?
Of course I would.
Well, then it was the same.
Again, I disagreed. Neither araniaart or myself are poly-amorous, so since we have given ourselves to each other completely, I would have an issue with araniaart expressing herself sexually with someone else, especially without my permission or knowledge.
Well, then Bruce goes one to explain to me that I'm not really bisexual. No no, I'm not a lesbian either. I'm attracted to men, I just happened to fall in love with a woman. And that's kind of like what Magento and Professor X have, just we "decide" to have sex, too.
Wow.
Okay, its not like two otherwise straight people can't fall in love - it happens in real life and in media (I subscribe to the theory that Ennis from Brokeback Mountain was a straight man who just happened to fall for Jack).
But to be sitting there, in a crowded bar, and have someone I considered a friend - a CisHet White Male - to tell me, to my face, what my sexuality was...I kind of felt gutted.
Especially the way he said it. There were "airquotes" involved. Like "bisexuality" is some dirty word - doesn't exist.
"I don't see you a lesbian," he said.
(Neither do I...)
"And you're not 'bisexual' or anything. You like men."
Excuse me? I am indeed bisexual. Yes, I like men. Actually, on a physical level I do tend to be more attracted to men than women but damn, son. No no, tell me more about my own sexuality, why don't you, Bruce?
You see, according to Bruce, since I hadn't been sexually involved with a woman before araniaart, then I wasn't bisexual.
I tried to counter - that he didn't know anything about me and trust me show me a picture of Kat Dennings and I'll show just how shamelessly bisexual I can be, but no. IN his rationale (since you know, he couldn't actually be friends with any "real" queer folk) I'm just a straight girl who really like her best friend and gave up trying to find a man and just decided to be BFFs with her forever and also have sex instead of looking outside the relationship for sexual fulfillment.
Which means he loves his "besties" as much as I love araniaart - just he is too grossed out by penises to be romantic so he dates women to fulfillment "that part of him" and that was just like a decision I can make like flipping on a switch.
Wow.
Wow.
I don't know what else to say. Again, there's nothing WRONG with that if that's how people choose to live their life but to be TOLD your own sexuality is wrong, is just so ... staggering.
Oh Tumblr, how I missed you. Now please distract me with Stucky porn and someone please berate me for cultural appropriation. I need it. I'd rather live in this world.














