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I just still don't get why Willow is a lesbian rather than bi.

I mean, okay, yes, it's an internal thing, and you can't understand other peoples internal identifications, never mind a fictional persons, but still. It seems that in TV world there are no bisexuals.

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She said it a few times

[yduras.livejournal.com]

She said "Gay, now" or the equivalent a couple of times, and the other characters mentioned it prominently as well.

I took it as the producers (or network) being converned that the audience would not accept Willow as gay (because of prior love interests) and thought that acknowledging the bi issue would confuse the poor stupid audience. If she's still capable of loving men, they reason, then how can her love of a woman be true love? (Networks, esp UPN, are often stuuupid about social issues)

Re: She said it a few times

[tanaise.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I think on some level I sort of thought of it as her making a yes/no answer even though she's really a maybe. So since she's not straight, her answer is gay, even if it's tempered by a 'mostly' or a 'sort of.' In fact, it's really the same deal as any minority group--if you're a little bit different, you're officially all different.

Re: She said it a few times

[toratigris.livejournal.com]

This is an answer that makes sense to me (I've often wondered about this too, Podling).

However, IIRC, in one of the commentaries in the season 4 DVDs, something was said about her relationship with Oz really being platonic, even though they'd had sex -- that they loved each other in a non-romantic way, but mistook it for romance because boy/girl is the norm. They didn't say that in so many words, mind you, but that seemed like the implication.

The problem I have with that is that it seems like such a retcon, 'cause the way she talked and felt about Xander in Season 1 did not seem like someone who had a crush solely because it was expected of her, and she just hadn't realized yet that women were her thing. That just doesn't feel true when I watch Season 1. So I think it just makes more sense to let her be bi.