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[podling]

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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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.