There’s nothing quite like flirting with a girl for days on end, thinking of her every waking moment, having her talk about how the two of you should go off and do things alone (eyebrow waggle) and then when you get a little more forward?
Confusion! What? Oh, no, she doesn’t like girls. We were just kidding around. Weren’t you kidding around?
:smack:
I swear, I was convinced she was into me, convinced that she was giving very clear signals and then…pfft. Nothing. I hadn’t realized that it was normal for straight girls to talk at great length about gay sex and make repeated innuendos towards other girls. Clearly, my gaydar is completely useless.
Is everything irretrievably awkward now? For that matter, do you care or is this one of those things you just want to put behind you so as to cringe less, etc?
Well… at least you’re not a man finding out later (while separated by hundreds of miles and talking online) that she really was into guys back then (and still is now, but I digress)… and, more specifically, she was into you, but you never put out any signals because you thought she was into girls.
::lets lose wordless shout of pure anger and regret into the night::
See what you made me do. If only everyone could just say how they really feel. Meh.
For a minute there I was a bit freaked out and expecting I’d be hearing from mutual friends that I had gone raving lesbian on her or something and then I realized…eh. Not a big deal. She didn’t react badly and it was just one of those momentary moments of idiocy and embarrassment.
Besides, there’s that small, stupid part of my brain that says, “Maybe she’s in denial and I still have a shot!” Heh.
I’m not too broken up, really. More amused at my idiocy and wishful thinking than anything else.
Regallag_The_Axe - Ouch! That would be rough. My sympathies and apologies on behalf of my gender.
From what I’ve heard from friends, it can be a problem for them–guys who are “straight” or curious or just screwing with your head for whatever reason.
I wouldn’t say never, but I imagine it’s less. Straight guys generally will go to any length to make sure you know they’re straight. We aren’t usually very coy about that.
A gay guy friend of mine always gets this. He’ll take a guy home and fool around with him, then agonize over whether to call him or try to run into him again, then when he does he gets the “Man, I was drunk that night we hung out!” Bonus points for “I don’t remember a thing!”
I’ve actually run into this sort of thing before, though, so it wouldn’t surprise me if she did turn out to be in denial. It’s a very odd ploy where somebody who doesn’t want to admit she’s gay or bi will flirt and make suggestive comments and then deny it when confronted, all the while secretly hoping that the other person will push the issue enough that she can be seduced into gayness.* That’s how a girl I know was “turned gay” some years back, much to everyone’s amusement since she might as well have been wearing a flashing sign over her head declaring her interest in women.
I’m not really all that interested in playing games, though, even if the stupid part of my brain says differently. Coming to terms with my own bisexuality was (and remains) hard enough and while there’s nothing wrong with struggling with your orientation, trying to act out some sort of coy seduction into gayness is…annoying.
And I see the male version of this has already been mentioned!
I completely agree with that last bit. This one time, not at band camp, I had a guy that was lightly flirting with me so I let him know I was interested and it led to…well somewhat heavier flirting. We got to the point of ‘are we going to head somewhere private or not’ when he excused himself with an I have to use the restroom excuse and just didn’t come back. I was pissed off to put it mildly and the straight guys around who had observed the situation were pissed off on my behalf as well.
All I can say is, if you aren’t sure what you want or know you don’t want it…don’t play the game.
Hmm, not a single one of my straight friends would flirt with another guy. I figured with lesbians being more acceptable, at least in my neck of the woods, you’d have girls flirting more. I’ve never heard of two guys making out to get the attention of some girl for example.
I’m suspicious of her “kidding around”. My gaydar is making beeps here because it sounds like she is in denial of being gay or bisexual. It is just my theory that she has sexual feelings toward you but doesn’t want to be stigmatized as a lesbian.
I’ve heard that most people who claim to be bisexual are really gay and don’t want to admit it because a true bisexual would just pretend to be hetero because the social stigma is too much. I have a female friend who had a girlfriend, and they had a sexual relationship for several months before breaking up. Afterwards, my friend doesn’t want to be thought of as a bisexual.
However, in this situation, I would play it off like it was all a joke because I don’t think you should count on her coming around any time soon so keep all your other options open. This is just my theory but I think most bisexuals never come out of the closet.
I’ve got a few straight friends who flirt with me in a joking manner. You’d think they’d learn better, because I’m always willing to take my entendres one step further than they are, and they end up squirming in discomfort. It’s great fun!
As a bisexual, I disagree with this. A lot of homosexuals do go through a, “I’m really bi,” phase, but it generally doesn’t last once they realize that anyone who’s going to give them shit because they’re homosexual is also going to give them shit for being bisexual. It’s not like you can offset your gay sex by having straight sex, like Al Gore buying carbon credits, or something. Plus, bisexuals take from both sides (no pun intended*). Straights are down on you for having gay sex, and other gays are down on you for not “committing” to being gay.
As the social stigma against homosexuality continues to breakdown, I think you’re going to see a lot more nominally heterosexual people willing to “experiement” with gay sex because they don’t have any hang ups about homosexuality, and hey! A blowjob’s a blowjob. It’s all just friction, right? I know a few people who identify as straight who have messed around with people of their own gender (and a few gays who’ve done the same with the opposite gender) beceause there was enough attraction there to make it worth a shot, but not enough to make it worth doing for a long-term basis. Personally, I’d like to see this result in a much tighter definition of the word “bisexual,” so that folks like that are excluded. A guy who’s only interested in girls romantically, but will sleep with another dude on occasion when he’s in a dry spell shouldn’t really be considered bisexual, IMO. Sexuality should be about more than just who you fuck. There’s huge elements of attraction, romantic interest, and self-identity that get improperly excluded under that definition of the term.
I agree, and would like to add the flip side of this coin: otherwise straight girls who knock back a couple shots of Patron, then magically start making out with other girls on the dance floor, are not bisexual. They’re FREAKING AWESOME, but they aren’t bisexual.
