{"id":2763,"date":"2015-07-08T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/?guid=3757640a8e304f92ed9fa0a7f57c8479"},"modified":"2015-07-11T13:05:06","modified_gmt":"2015-07-11T12:05:06","slug":"sighing-for-the-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/2015\/07\/sighing-for-the-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Sighing for the Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember how a few years back Katy Perry earwormed everyone for a couple of months with the titillating “try-bi” fluff that was “I kissed a girl and I liked it \/ hope my boyfriend don’t mind it<\/i>“?<\/p>\n

It seems we’re there again with a hyped new single from Demi Lovato, a multi-award winning 22 year old American singer whose message for another woman runs:<\/p>\n

Take me down into your paradise
Don’t be scared cause I’m your body type
Just something that we wanna try
Cause you and I
We’re cool for the summer<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Cool for the summer? <\/i>Damnit. It’s just the stick bis get so often – that we are “tourists” of same-sex desire, there for the fun of a fling but without a commitment and with the exit door to the safety of passing as straight always open.<\/p>\n

The reality of supposed “heterosexual privilege” for bis being misread as straight is rather different, but this song just seems to play into that outdated notion.  My sexuality is not a seasonal fashion.<\/p>\n

P.S. It’s a bit of a waste of “I’m your body type” to just make it about girl\/girl. Can this get picked up and appropriated for some other “similars”?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Remember how a few years back Katy Perry earwormed everyone for a couple of months with the titillating “try-bi” fluff that was “I kissed a girl and I liked it \/ hope my boyfriend don’t mind it”?It seems we’re there again with a hyped new single from D…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}