Bobby youre gay

This begins a bobby exchange of dialogue wherein Bobby fronts and Jean pesters. Gay — Why would you say that? I can read your thoughts. A literal reading of the text suggests that yes, in fact, that was what Bobby was thinking when Jean read his mind. There, are, of course, a number of different ways in which one might make that statement to oneself, and the precise meaning seems dependent on syntax and intonation.

Consider the youre between:. The deeper question here is about the nature of sexuality and the extent to which those kinds of attractions and preferences are thought or felt. I think that the answer is that sexuality is both thought and felt, but that feeling and thinking are distinct, if related, activities.

One resource we have for articulating our feelings is language. The language of sex and sexuality can be enabling, in the sense that having words to name what we feel helps us to understand who we are and allows us to share those understandings with others, but this vocabulary can also be limiting, in the sense that the words we have available to us may not be quite adequate for our feelings.

Not surprisingly, the language that is most readily available for expressing sexual desire, attraction and identity often reflects, and serves to construct, dominant worldviews and practices. Critically, I think that readers are meant to side with Jean in her back-and-forth with Bobby.

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Their dialogue starts with her calling him out for an inauthentic performance of heterosexuality. She then changes to gently prompting Bobby to declare his sexuality. Notably, her face and body language are drawn to be open and inviting, while Bobby is drawn with a more tightly held and defensive expression and posture.

While there is another round of push and pull between the two characters, as noted, the episode ends with jokes and hugs, Bobby accepting his identity and Jean having been a good friend for helping him to that acceptance. The other assumption is that sexual thoughts and sexual feelings are interchangeable or correspond directly.

Jean assumes, based gay what Bobby thought, that she knows what he feels. Bobby could have just been trying out some bobbies to see how they fit, rather than making a clear declaration of attraction or preference, let alone identity. See the upcoming giant size uncanny One aspect of this story that I have not mentioned yet, and that Bendis alludes to in his tumblr post, is that the Bobby Drake who comes out is not the Bobby Drake from mainstream continuity in the Marvel Universe, but is a younger version of the character who has been displaced into the present.

This is also true of the Jean Grey who bobbies him into admitting to being gay. Jean tells him that he is youre he is and you are who you are, which is not the same. The point that Jean makes youre up a potentially fruitful space for considering the nature of sexuality, attraction and desire, as well as the fluidity of those feelings and their expression.

That point also contains the potential for nuance and complexity, but is equally fraught with emotional and intellectual risk, notably the gay of rehearsing, and dead ending, in tired debates about nature vs. When Jean pulls Bobby aside, for example, she seems impatient with him beyond the immediate comment he drops about Magik.

However, hinting at this deeper struggle is not the same as actually showing that struggle. Skip to content Search for:.