Trope Bingo - Coming Out
May. 13th, 2014 11:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
meridian_roseTitle: Coming Out Ambiguously
Fandom: Revenge, The Good Wife
Type: 2 Wallpapers (and brief notes/meta)
Prompt: For the![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
trope_bingo prompt "coming out (of the closet)"
For the prompt I've chosen two characters who don't identify as gay but more towards bisexuality, and whose coming out is not a matter of a simple, "Look, I'm bisexual."
Nolan talks about sexual ambiguity and describes himself as "about a three on the Kinsey scale" – the "about" suggests he's possibly slightly more attracted to one gender than another. We've seen him in relationships with three men and one woman in canon, but he may have had others. Nolan never describes himself as "bisexual" or "pansexual". Perhaps he doesn't like labels.
Kalinda does not like labels. Early on we see that she's attracted to both men and women. She's had relationships with both men and women. When Alicia first asks if Kalinda is gay, Kalinda replies "I'm private", and later, when she and Alicia have developed a deeper friendship, Kalinda says "I'm not gay, I'm…flexible."
More recently when Cary tells Alicia he's sleeping with Kalinda, Alicia still seems puzzled. "I thought she was gay," she says, despite knowing that Kalinda has slept with men, including Peter Florrick, Alicia's husband.
"Bi or something," Cary says, and at first I was just as irritated at him as at Alicia. Thinking more about it though, and reading this article, I think it's possible that Cary is clumsily trying to respect Kalinda's preference to be free of limiting labels. In a much earlier episode he said "I know plenty of people who knew their sexuality. Then they met Kalinda." Kalinda has a way of interacting with people that goes beyond gender and sexuality, and people tend to respond her.
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Fandom: Revenge, The Good Wife
Type: 2 Wallpapers (and brief notes/meta)
Prompt: For the
trope_bingo prompt "coming out (of the closet)"For the prompt I've chosen two characters who don't identify as gay but more towards bisexuality, and whose coming out is not a matter of a simple, "Look, I'm bisexual."
Nolan talks about sexual ambiguity and describes himself as "about a three on the Kinsey scale" – the "about" suggests he's possibly slightly more attracted to one gender than another. We've seen him in relationships with three men and one woman in canon, but he may have had others. Nolan never describes himself as "bisexual" or "pansexual". Perhaps he doesn't like labels.
Kalinda does not like labels. Early on we see that she's attracted to both men and women. She's had relationships with both men and women. When Alicia first asks if Kalinda is gay, Kalinda replies "I'm private", and later, when she and Alicia have developed a deeper friendship, Kalinda says "I'm not gay, I'm…flexible."
More recently when Cary tells Alicia he's sleeping with Kalinda, Alicia still seems puzzled. "I thought she was gay," she says, despite knowing that Kalinda has slept with men, including Peter Florrick, Alicia's husband.
"Bi or something," Cary says, and at first I was just as irritated at him as at Alicia. Thinking more about it though, and reading this article, I think it's possible that Cary is clumsily trying to respect Kalinda's preference to be free of limiting labels. In a much earlier episode he said "I know plenty of people who knew their sexuality. Then they met Kalinda." Kalinda has a way of interacting with people that goes beyond gender and sexuality, and people tend to respond her.
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