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Author: Mimimurlough

Jun 7th 2011 at 5:02:27 AM

We seem to have this discussion every time gender, race or sexuality comes up in tropes, so I'll just repeat what I say then: by your standard, almost all tropes of those categories would disappear. It's also a myopic way or reasoning because it suggests that noone sees the message just because you don't, when this is in fact the second or third most discusssed issue with bisexual representation, after NoBisexuals and DiscountLesbians.

As for subjectivity, I've already stated that I want to count this as sort of a counterpart to ButNotTooGay, which might have had examples woth discussing once or twice in its existence. Subjectivity is not an issue if you have a reference point, which in this case means comparing how the show treats relationships to the different genders. You'll also note that I specifically ''didn't'' put up love as a creitera here, because that means that you can count for example Thirteen as equal opportunity, when in fact the amount of time and respect that the show deals to her relationships very greatly with the gender of her counterpart. "Love" depends on interpretation, but counting minutes or the times she uses her attraction towards women to tease cer colleagues versus the times she does to with her attraction towards men is not.