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Carol COULD be bi.

The correct question is, “Is she faithful?”

It could also be, “Are she and Thomas comfortable with a degree of experimentation/unconventional relationship dynamics?”

Probably not, but hey, you never know.

She’s pretty heavily implied to Thomas that she’s straight, but I remember that when the idea of a “playdate” with Jo and Jess came up, she didn’t dismiss it out of hand, and she took great pleasure in teasing Thomas about how if she’d experiment with anyone it’d be Nina.

#6A0909 could be “Beastily Flesh” or just a very dark red.

It could be Beastily Flesh (#680ci08) but if it’s actually #6A0909 it would be “American Family”. I’m not sure why American Family is so close to Beastily Flesh though.

I guess so.
But if Evrina plays with enough “Beastly Flesh”, then she could end up with a BIG family!
:D

Ahh statistics. He’s not wrong though, even if women are more likely to be bi they are not that common in grand scheme of things either.

But as the saying goes, “statistics, lies and damn lies”

I think it depends on how you define bisexual how common they are, and also the gender ratio statistics are possibly skewed by it being more socially acceptable for women to be bisexual than men.

If you define bisexual as “capable of being attracted to both sexes at all”, then anyone who isn’t a 0 or 6 on the Kinsey scale would count, which is a WAY higher number than if you define it as anyone between 2 and 4 or even just strictly 3s only (although I don’t know why anyone would define it that way, but some people are weird about bisexuality for some reason). If we’re including bi-curious people (1s and 5s), which I generally do, then bisexuals probably make up a decent chunk of the population, much larger than one might expect.

I believe the proper saying is “Lies, damn lies, and statistics”, the notion that statistics are the worst lis of all.

Consider the classic “My hair is on fire, I am standing in a bucket of ice water, but on average I feel fine.”

For information’s sake: I’ve heard a variant of that phrase:

“Lies, damn lies,and [government] lies!”

I mean, my extended acquaintance circle is aron 50% women, and only, like, 3 out of 9 or 10 are straight, so…

Yes, but that’s a sampling bias, if you are LGBT yourself in some way, you’re far more likely to hang out mostly with other LGBT people, or if you aren’t particularly social and mostly hang out with the people your couple of actual close friends hang out with, and one or two of those close friends happens to be LGBT, then you’re mostly going to hang out with LGBT people. Or if, like me, you hang in a lot of nerd communities and you don’t fit in that well with mainstream society, then you might mostly hang out with LGBT people, that’s what happened with me.

It is entirely possible that your extended acquaintance circle includes a majority of the LGBT people in your area, depending on how large an area you live in, but if said circle only includes 9 or 10 women, then it is unlikely that your circle includes a significant portion of the overall population, even in a very small town.

The comic reminds me of my son’s junior high years. Somewhere around a third of the girls in his class declared themselves to be lesbians. After he had finished college we were sitting around one day and the topic came up. He said that only about 3-4 of them were actual lesbians at this point. This would be an amount consistent with the rest of the world. Most of them were in his circle of friends. It fits in with the idea that people may perceive them selves as one orientation or another at one point in their life and not another and possibly for reasons other than actual desire. It also fits with the idea of a skewed sample as most of the actual lesbians were in his circle.

It’s a GenZ thing, apparently. Huge increase in those who declare themselves to be.

That reminds me of a waitress in a pub in Hong Kong who insisted to me several times that she was a lesbian. “Look, I’m not hitting on you. Where is my beer,” I thought.

If I remember correctly, Carol is the least blessed of her family. So Evrina would go into complete meltdown if either of her sisters or mother popped in to say hi.

I think she said that she caught up recently and was still growing, but perhaps she hasn’t caught up yet, I don’t recall the specifics of that conversation, just that she used to be relatively flat until college and then suddenly started gaining an inch per year to her bust measurement, and that was seven years ago.

I wonder if Ramon’s religiousness has rubbed off on Evrina. “Glorious” isn’t the first word I imagine her using, but it’s very applicable.

The boundaries of statistics also suggest that of the ten women in Marbleton’s main cast five of them wouldn’t be blessed like Evrina, Carol, Alex, Maddie, and Rulette.

I’m a straight cis dude. The number of trans people I know is way more than statistics say is possible even though Iive in the DFW Metromess. Last I checked I’m up to six, three of each not counting the enbys. Most people know exactly six fewer than I do.

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