Yeah I don’t know, but surely if someone is homophobic then it won’t make much of a difference if Willow calls herself bisexual or gay, both would be equally unacceptable in their eyes? And wider society if you like were hardly clamouring for Willow to not be bisexual either, most viewers were far more bothered about how can Willow call herself gay when she’s obviously bi
I definitely think that Joss is thinking more in terms of not wanting to inadvertently undo the positive representation of Willow and Tara by having Willow go back to dating guys. People were already upset enough about Tara dying in the way that she did, so the writers must have felt a lot of pressure to end things on a positive note for Willow given that she was one of the earliest examples of a tv character coming out and dating another woman. Interesting really that Joss doesn’t mention the killing of Tara controversy at all when discussing their choice to make Willow gay instead of bi
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Date: 2020-05-20 06:16 pm (UTC)I definitely think that Joss is thinking more in terms of not wanting to inadvertently undo the positive representation of Willow and Tara by having Willow go back to dating guys. People were already upset enough about Tara dying in the way that she did, so the writers must have felt a lot of pressure to end things on a positive note for Willow given that she was one of the earliest examples of a tv character coming out and dating another woman. Interesting really that Joss doesn’t mention the killing of Tara controversy at all when discussing their choice to make Willow gay instead of bi