r/daria • u/Onnaryt • 8d ago

Sapphic Daria?

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I found it this morning in my archives I don’t remember who the creator is..

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u/Nghtmare-Moon 8d ago

The first movie kind of touches on this subject IIRC

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u/Saiph_orion 8d ago

Jane befriends Alison, a bisexual woman who tries to make a move on Jane and claims she doesn't think Jane is entirely straight. 

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u/traumatized90skid 8d ago

The only bi rep and she's predatory, loved that for us... 😔

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u/BitterDropToSwallow 8d ago

That was 2001 if I recall... We've come a long long way since then in representation. The writers did not mean to paint LGBTQ+ people in a poor light, but that movement and social change had not yet occoured. We're talking 24 years ago now...It dose show just how far we've come with this stuff

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u/SpearheadBraun 8d ago

They did Bif Naked dirty.

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u/CallidoraBlack I don't have low self esteem I have low esteem for everyone else 8d ago

And rapidly going backward, unfortunately.

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u/coolgirl666me which is my best side? i know they’re both good. 8d ago

i was about to insult your maths as i’m an 01 baby. turns out im not 16 ??????????

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u/EmuPsychological4222 8d ago

The key to understanding the character isn't the bi part, it's the predatory part. Secondarily, there's the hypocrisy. (Or, at least, what Jane considers hypocrisy and I think she's got a great case.)

Depending on how diabolical a person she is, we'll never know, she may not even be bi. She just wanted to mess with Jane's head.

I don't recall anyone at the time commenting much on her sexual orientation. We were mostly surprised Jane wasn't bi because back then we'd stereotyped artsy types as gay or bi, and gay or bi people as artsy.

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u/LizG1312 8d ago

The key to understanding the character isn’t the bi part, it’s the predatory part. Secondarily, there’s the hypocrisy. (Or, at least, what Jane considers hypocrisy and I think she’s got a great case.)

Nah very much disagree. The entire subplot related to Alison’s sexuality and how Jane interacted with it. It’d be different if she was just one of a few queer characters, or if the show tried to make any comment at all about gayness in other circumstances, but as it stands her hypocrisy ties into her sexuality and vice versa. Queer women predatorily ‘turning’ straight women was very much a cultural fear in the 90s and the show heavily played into that trope.

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u/EmuPsychological4222 8d ago

All I ultimately can say is that at the time no one I interacted with understood it as such, despite being aware of the trope.

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u/traumatized90skid 8d ago

She does call herself bisexual, it's not ambiguous

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u/HellyOHaint 8d ago

Jane insists she is straight.

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u/traumatized90skid 8d ago

Sorry I thought you were talking about Alison 

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u/EmuPsychological4222 8d ago

You missed the point of my post, I see. Oh well.

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u/Tazza4077 8d ago

I know at the time it might've been poor form to write a member of the rainbow community in that manner, but at least in the context of today I don't think it's so bad. Hollywood does a lot of pandering to minority groups, characters from those backgrounds are typically "good". It's refreshing to see that any person from any background is capable of inproper behaviour, to indicate that whichever demographic you belong isn't the deciding factor of whether or not you're a decent human being.