My default position for TS is a cheerfully bisexual Blair and an openly gay or closetedly gay Jim. It just suits my vision of the characters. Unless it doesn't suit my story...
It's true that no-one wanders around saying 'Hi, I'm Mab and I'm straight/gay/lesbian/TV/TS' but I do see where the OP is coming from. In a PWP, what does it matter, but a medium-long story or canon based first time, it might be worth considering the existence of all those canon women.
I wonder if the lack of bi-ness which Logophilos perceives also ties into the fairly obvious misogyny that creeps into some slash. 'I'm in ur canon, screwing up ur slashy OTP'.So instead of the guys being bi, the woman is so often a bitch or a psychonutter, and when the guys fall into bed together they've never had sex this fulfilling before :-(. There's rather a lot of that in TS, especially earlier stories.
Plus, there's the pov of the OP's therapist, which seems to be quite common. I watch one gay issues comm, and there's sometimes comment indicating some members of the gay community to be fairly ambivalent about bisexuality, as well. A 'bisexuality is for people who can't make up their minds' idea, and we're very much a culture for our dualities and all or nothing assumptions, and we don't like the grey areas.
/rambling on. Bet you're sorry you posted that link and comment now. :-)
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It's true that no-one wanders around saying 'Hi, I'm Mab and I'm straight/gay/lesbian/TV/TS' but I do see where the OP is coming from. In a PWP, what does it matter, but a medium-long story or canon based first time, it might be worth considering the existence of all those canon women.
I wonder if the lack of bi-ness which Logophilos perceives also ties into the fairly obvious misogyny that creeps into some slash. 'I'm in ur canon, screwing up ur slashy OTP'.So instead of the guys being bi, the woman is so often a bitch or a psychonutter, and when the guys fall into bed together they've never had sex this fulfilling before :-(. There's rather a lot of that in TS, especially earlier stories.
Plus, there's the pov of the OP's therapist, which seems to be quite common. I watch one gay issues comm, and there's sometimes comment indicating some members of the gay community to be fairly ambivalent about bisexuality, as well. A 'bisexuality is for people who can't make up their minds' idea, and we're very much a culture for our dualities and all or nothing assumptions, and we don't like the grey areas.
/rambling on. Bet you're sorry you posted that link and comment now. :-)