>> For what it's worth, I count your writing as some that helped me figure out, or perhaps more accurately, recognize my own identity as Demi. <<
Yay! I'm so glad I could help with that.
>> Specifically, if I remember correctly, you speculated that Steve in "Love Is for Children" was probably Demi and included a footnote as to what that meant and a lightbulb came on in my head.<<
Yeah, I just couldn't imagine Steve enjoying casual sex. Bucky certainly did. But Steve always seemed kind of uncomfortable even when Bucky was bending over backwards to find a girl for each of them. He got attached to Peggy, so he's not gay. He's generally romantic and patient. That makes demisexual/demiromantic a plausible extrapolation. And it's unlikely to get named as such in canon because Steve doesn't think in those terms, and demi is easily obscured in courtship -- or used to be. Today's speed dating would make it painfully obvious.
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Re: Identity and Reading
Date: 2017-10-29 06:39 pm (UTC)Yay! I'm so glad I could help with that.
>> Specifically, if I remember correctly, you speculated that Steve in "Love Is for Children" was probably Demi and included a footnote as to what that meant and a lightbulb came on in my head.<<
Yeah, I just couldn't imagine Steve enjoying casual sex. Bucky certainly did. But Steve always seemed kind of uncomfortable even when Bucky was bending over backwards to find a girl for each of them. He got attached to Peggy, so he's not gay. He's generally romantic and patient. That makes demisexual/demiromantic a plausible extrapolation. And it's unlikely to get named as such in canon because Steve doesn't think in those terms, and demi is easily obscured in courtship -- or used to be. Today's speed dating would make it painfully obvious.