Tag: the bisexual

Posted on by shaloved30

Idk maybe I missed the moment in an episode that has all these takes seeing enlightenment and nuance in a character who gets mad when her roommate calls her bisexual and spews every hateful thing about us folks say then to only decide to use the label an epi later, announce to him at dinner, and tell her first date/one nighter to spit in her mouth (which felt so…out of nowhere since she had never done anything else sexually *adventurous* besides sleep with a man prior to that moment.) But all these takes about nuance (i had a convo w one person on twitter too) and not acknowledging her awful behavior to every person she decided to be with during her “exploration” is a miss for me. All I keep seeing is this praise for being able to not be a likable character and that’s fine, she doesn’t have to be. But when it feels like the characters biggest flaw is her bisexual orientation, that’s a problem.

The creator/writer may be bi herself but if this was supposed to be her doing positive rep for bi folks, I didn’t see it. It felt like Leila treated being bi like a carnival ride that she could get off of any time she felt sick enough or someone caught her on it and that was a mess to watch to me.

Posted on by shaloved30

poppunkwolf‌:

i ❤ deniz. she’s such an important person and her whole emotional arc got to me. when she said leila was the first person she had ever met who was like herself was heavy. and the way leila really tried to respect that moment for her but it ended up hurting her later because that distinction between bi and lesbian was something deniz took to heart whether it was right or not

Yeah. I really like her and her story and her friendship with Leila seemed to be about the only time Leila actually thought about someone else’s feelings before her own. I would love a show with Denis and her family and her trying to become the chef she really wants to become and who she’s dating.

Posted on by shaloved30

poppunkwolf:

shaloved30:

I watched most of The Bisexual on Hulu last night and am finishing episode 6 now. It was a mistake. Leila is terrible.

there is like SO MUCH to unpack on this friggin show. it’s not entirely bad, but. it’s… a lot.

The only good thing for me was meeting Denis, Ruby, and Hemmy. Give me a show about them.

Hi, since I’ve been seeing mixed reviews from other Bi ppl, if you don’t mind me asking, what didn’t you like about The Bisexual (on Hulu)? Is there any part of it you did? I just watched the pilot.

Posted on by shaloved30

What I didn’t like? Pretty much all of it where Leila is concerned tbh. She does nothing to me but reinforces the very thing and stigma’s bi folxs fight against from outside and within the community including every awful thing that’s said about us bisexuals- which the character themselves recites with a bitterness that crawled all over me in one episode and made it even worse when the next episode she decides to use the label for herself and immediately does something that made me side eye the screen so hard. I almost quit watching it by episode 3 but figured I may as well finish it since it was only 6 episodes.

The things I did like

Denis and Ruby and even Hemmy. Give me stories about them instead.

Hulu just sent me over the EPK for a new comedy. It is called “The Bisexual”. “A look at the difference of dating men and women from the perspective of a person who finds herself doing both.” It stars Desiree Akhavan who from what I can find is bisexual. It seems she might also be the writer of the show.

Posted on by shaloved30