verilybitchie:verilybitchie:So on this interview with Star Trek actress Mary Wiseman, I noticed when
verilybitchie:verilybitchie:So on this interview with Star Trek actress Mary Wiseman, I noticed when the audio cut out she said “I’m not straight,”. The interviewer, Dawn Ennis, went back and asked Wiseman about it, and she confirmed, haha! So there you have it, I got the scoop! RIght after I released my own video on bisexuality in Star Trek Discovery too! Gah!I just posted an analysis of bisexuality in the show last week and I mentioned how with Adira, Jett, Culber, Stamets, and Gray, they made a point of casting actors who are LGT themselves, but as far as anyone knows that’s not the case with Phillipa. And then no one asked or expected - including the journalist who conducted this interview - that another actor on the show might also be queer! Two instances of how bisexuals fall through the cracks in this regard.The journalist, Ennis, makes a joke about how there are so many LGBT people in Discovery that its nice that they let the straight people on too (implying that Mary Wiseman is one of those straight people), at which point Ennis is laughing so she misses Mary say “I’m not straight”, and they move on with the conversation. Ennis presumably assumes Wiseman is straight because she knows about her marriage to Noah. Ennis didn’t mean any harm, she was just having a laugh. But it’s one of those awkward instances where bisexuals kind of break our expectations of how things are supposed to work. Mary Wiseman appears to be straight, so should we just assume she is?Okay so a lot of responses are talking about this part of Mary’s statement:“I never liked it when straight presenting women dominated conversations about bisexuality/pansexuality when I was with women so I try not to do it now”This is a pretty big issue in the bi* community. The condition of living a life which explicitly exposes you to frequent homophobia is something thats held against us. We often struggle for approval from the gay community, and sometimes that also means feeling like we should stay quiet about our sexualities. It’s a pretty tough issue to navigate. I don’t even think there’s room for us to explore what the right choice is with that, because as bisexuals we are typically shut down for trying to talk about issues bisexuals face when in a “straight passing” relationship. We have to know our place, or we’ll be shut down. Mary Wiseman is a public figure in one of the most successful shows of all time, and this was an odd and tricky way of coming out. I understand where she’s coming from, and its going to be tough to find a way to talk about this with the nuance it deserves without making people angry. -- source link
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