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jmtorres ([personal profile] jmtorres) wrote2010-11-16 05:43 am
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Oh-miles-WHAT

I er, realized that there's a volume I've reread less often even than Mirror Dance--that being Borders of Infinity.

Here we have this gem in Bel's introduction in Labyrinth: Bel Thorne, the Ariel's commander, was a Betan hermaphrodite, man/woman descendant of a centuries-past genetic-social experiment every bit as bizarre, in Miles's private opinion, as anything rumored to be done for money by House Ryoval's ethics-free surgeons.

Ryoval. What.
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[personal profile] niqaeli 2010-11-16 07:06 pm (UTC)(link)
I always chose to see that as Cordelia responding to the insinuation that Aral would cheat on her with a man against her knowledge. Although the insinuation sets my teeth on edge every damn time, so I can see how you'd want to howl.

Sometimes, though, yeah. There's things that are just so WHAT that you can't find the time to find the in-universe explanation, you just are stuck on WHAT. Oh, Lois
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[personal profile] branchandroot 2010-11-16 07:11 pm (UTC)(link)
It's the explicit equation of "bisexual" with "swinger/slut/fucks anything that moves" or, alternatively, the bizarre notion that bisexuality only lasts until you pick one that outrages me, because that's something I /still/ have to deal with crap over and there's just no excuse for perpetuating it.
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[personal profile] niqaeli 2010-11-16 07:15 pm (UTC)(link)
It happens not to be my rage issue re: bisexuality (mine is the related but not identical issue of the invisibility of bisexuals in heterosexual marriages and having to beat people over the head *repeatedly* to get them to remember that I'm queer), but I definitely get it. :/