Anyway, thanks for the link, and I loved this interview. What you quoted is particularly interesting to me because I have a lot of trouble with it. Back in the day (pre-teen days, that is) I was the sort of feminist (is this even feminist? I'm not sure; it's probably just stupid) who liked to argue women weren't any different than men, not even biologically, except for the physical fact of the penis and reproductive organs. But since I've come to realize that those biological differences do make us psychologically different too, but the trouble I have with it is as far as a lot of those "cliches" go, I tend to be "masculine" (I can't mult-task; I can't ask for help; I don't cry, etc.) I hate that; it's made me feel like less of a woman in times past.
But I do think both gender and sexuality are a continuum, the way Whedon says in the interview. Sure, male is male and female is female, but there is the point where we meet, and isn't that so fascinating? And once I sort of got that, I felt a lot better about my sexuality, too. There's gay and straight and bi, but all sorts of things in between. I can be het and still find women hot. I can be het and even want to sleep with a woman. And maybe that makes me bi--but not being quite sure and not quite having a concrete definition of what I am in that sense no longer really bothers me any more. /random confessions!
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Anyway, thanks for the link, and I loved this interview. What you quoted is particularly interesting to me because I have a lot of trouble with it. Back in the day (pre-teen days, that is) I was the sort of feminist (is this even feminist? I'm not sure; it's probably just stupid) who liked to argue women weren't any different than men, not even biologically, except for the physical fact of the penis and reproductive organs. But since I've come to realize that those biological differences do make us psychologically different too, but the trouble I have with it is as far as a lot of those "cliches" go, I tend to be "masculine" (I can't mult-task; I can't ask for help; I don't cry, etc.) I hate that; it's made me feel like less of a woman in times past.
But I do think both gender and sexuality are a continuum, the way Whedon says in the interview. Sure, male is male and female is female, but there is the point where we meet, and isn't that so fascinating? And once I sort of got that, I felt a lot better about my sexuality, too. There's gay and straight and bi, but all sorts of things in between. I can be het and still find women hot. I can be het and even want to sleep with a woman. And maybe that makes me bi--but not being quite sure and not quite having a concrete definition of what I am in that sense no longer really bothers me any more.
/random confessions!