She also blames rugby for 'making me gay.'

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

Oh, it gets way funnier. She also blames our move to NC (b/c there are no dykes in PA, obviously) and claimes that I 'chose' to be gay b/c I like being the political underdog and, I wish this weren't a direct quote, "you couldn't turn yourself black."

It took me a while to get over the sting, but now I just think it's funny and a little sad. My brother was getting mad at me for how much I mock our parents. He can get back to me if our mom ever tells him "looking at your childhood pictures makes me sick to my stomach."

Don't get me wrong, I love my parents very much and they love me. But I think I get to do a little gentle mocking.

No. I thought Willow was straighty mcstraight. They really had a hard sell for me, because I always saw her as crushing on almost every boy on the show. In the end, Amber's Tara won me over, because who wouldn't love Tara? Such a sweetie.

See, I am affected by my own experiences, b/c I first kissed a boy when I was two, and had two crushes that lasted SIX YEARS each and one that lasted FIVE years (all on boys) and then I kissed a woman and didn't even consider dating guys for about four years, and now I'm back to bi.

Sometimes that shit just takes you by surprise.

I could see that. I really can. I can also sense a return of the "How come Willow's not bi?" conversation.

"How come Willow's not bi?" conversation.

Aw geez. I'm not starting that.

I can also sense a return of the "How come Willow's not bi?" conversation.

So not touching that. (The answer is, "cos the script doesn't say so." )

Nor I, because I wouldn't know of what I spoke.

smonster - your real life experience (and ouch to your mom - please do mock her, you've more grace than I would) I would buy. I didn't think they sold me on Willow, maybe it's because I didn't see her first kiss with Tara. At the beginning, it was all so metaphorical. I think if I'd seen Willow going through anything (nerves, excitement, lust, questioning, angst) prior to her telling Buffy in New Moon Rising that 'it's complicated, because of Tara' - I'd have been sold completely.

On the other hand though, I am appreciative that it wasn't approached as either, "How Willow Got Gay" or in the manner of an ABC afterschool special. By the end of NMR, I was into it. But they were too coy by half for me at the beginning, particularly considering Willow's prior boy-crushiness.

eta...

by saying "I would buy" your real life experience, I was using really poorly chosen words to express that I do understand that people just fall for people, and so if I'd seen more of Willow's story play out, the way you explained yours, I would have been sold on W/T, more quickly.

Um...

today on FX I'm watching the Buffy S3 premiere, and there's this scene of a lonely woman on the streets of LA. And I'm thinking 'hey, isn't that exact same clip used in the Angel opening credits?'

I like how the Buffy S3 opener introduced us to the physics and time-lapse dynamics in a hell dimension. It allowed us to get a better understanding of just how long Angel was in a hell dimension and further explains Connor's maturation in Angel S3.

That's so weird. I'm guessing I was subconsciously commanded to put in my S3 DVDs. Buffy's just reclaimed her name, fought back, and we saw the panning shot over her face that was in the credits forever.

kashi:

Okay, the scene where Buffy dives into Joyce's arms didn't use to make me tear up, darn it.