Something in me really wants to explain all the background that goes with this joke. On some level I think either you’ll have had the correct set of experiences, or not, and that will be the dividing line.

Functionally it’s just a different way of saying “How do you know if someone is vegan? Don’t worry, they’ll tell you.”

When I was in college if a man told you he was Bi that meant he was gay and just hadn’t accepted it, or was trying to hedge his bets because it was Kansas in the 90s, where that was still maybe not a thing you wanted to just cop to in mixed company. If a girl said she was Bi it was because she realized that deep down she was fundamentally uninteresting, and told everyone she was Bi in an attempt to substitute sexuality for personality.

Every bisexual man I ever met in those years is now just gay, and every bisexual woman married a man and never showed any interest in another woman, even after their divorces. This is not to say that bisexuals don’t exist, just that people sometimes just say things that are not exactly as true as they might be. That’s also not to say that some of those people weren’t legitimately bisexual. It’s just that the outcomes don’t obviously support the claims. None of this stuff is as simple as we want to make it.

You can just say whatever shit you want about your sexuality and no reasonable person is going to force you to prove it. Nor should anyone be expected to. At the same time, performative actions are a real thing humans like to do for myriad reasons. At the end of the day, fuck it all. Who cares? It’s just a stupid comic written by some dipshit. Feel however you want. I’m not the arbiter of your feelings.

But if I was… You’d better watch out! :D

Anyway, I thought it was funny, and that’s the most important thing.

The weather is making my sense of time feel even more untethered than usual, which is really a trick considering what it’s like normally. I’ve spent most of today thinking it was Thursday or maybe Sunday and kept having to ground myself back in the reality of my chronologic placement. Still, I got it sorted and have the page ready for viewing. Everything has worked out. I hope you enjoy it and that it will spur your return here on Friday, after a pleasant time between. Until then, remember the support links above the post, and don’t hold your supers until after you’re in too deep.

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