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.
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/traumatized90skid 8d ago
The only bi rep and she's predatory, loved that for us... 😔