Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-50.151.195.29-20150903211431/@comment-1672596-20151117133913

DementedP wrote: 64.33.250.214 wrote:

What happened to Strangelove has happened to a lot of women who chose to stay in an unhealthy relationship. The same way that people actually get killed on the battlefield just like in real life, I know. You're forgetting that the scenario was written by an author with purpose and intent behind it. It's not as if Kojima just thought "hey that's realistic or something" and randomly wrote this up on a whim. In this regard, I'm critiquing the author's writing and potential intent, not whether or not it's realistic.

Weedle McHairybug wrote: Originally, it WAS going to list her as bisexual, but DementedP rewrote the article to list her as a lesbian, even though had she been a true lesbian, she most likely would have acted more like how General Blue behaved to Bulma's attempt at seduction here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLfcQgJ47cU (and hope you've got a Youtube channel, because this is age restricted). Certainly not like how she acted in the ending.

And honestly, when Big Boss pointed out that she had earlier inferred she'd like him better if he acted more like a man, she seemed to stumble on her words. Not much point there if she wasn't taken off-guard by his point. Strangelove makes it outright obvious that she's homosexual, that doesn't mean that she can't have heterosexual inclinations. Just because a person can express fondness for someone else, it doesn't mean that it suddenly changes their sexual orientation from homosexual to bisexual. Liking Huey could have been a one-off thing (as short-lived as it was) but that doesn't mean that it removes her dislike for men and her clear sexual preference for women. Even if we're arguing over semantics (which we might as well be) it would make more sense to say that she's homosexual while being biromantic (given how things turned out with her feeling for Huey at the end). The fact that her nickname/alias is elaborated upon and put up as a huge part of her character (Strange Love) is even the reason why it needs to be mentioned that she's homosexual considering how she specifically identifes as such. I thought the entire point behind sex and romance is to mate, and that romance is just chemical reactions for whether you're attracted to someone sexually. You can't be homosexual and biromantic, since romance and sexual attraction are one and the same. You can't have one without the other.

And besides, that still doesn't explain why Strangelove didn't behave exactly like General Blue did when Bulma tried to seduce him (even though I personally got irritated with that scene due to Krillin and Bulma only deducing he was gay just because he didn't fall for Bulma's attempts at seduction three times, even though he never even flirted with Krillin once, which would have been far better evidence to him being gay) every time a male was involved (you did see the clip right?). Heck, Snake Eater had something similar with Raikov, where EVA mentioned she couldn't get Raikov to remove his clothes regardless of what she does and hinted that Snake had a better chance at getting him to willingly remove his clothes.