{"id":3110,"date":"2015-12-23T15:51:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-23T15:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/?guid=0b5e09ff1662cd9516334b3871271739"},"modified":"2015-12-23T15:51:18","modified_gmt":"2015-12-23T15:51:18","slug":"maths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/2015\/12\/maths\/","title":{"rendered":"Maths"},"content":{"rendered":"

I came across this old film poster, from a film with a bi theme. You can almost hear the trailer-voice explaining how a woman ends up sharing university accomodation with two men – with hil-ar-ious <\/i>consequences. I can hear it so well that I’m not going to look up the real trailer on youtube for fear I’m right.<\/p>\n

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But allow me to focus in on that tagline. One girl. Two guys. Three possibilities.<\/i> <\/p>\n

Will he date (or shag, or whatever you want to call it) her? Or will she date him<\/i>? Or (gasp!) will he date him<\/i>?<\/p>\n

And I know it was a fair bit daring at the time, as the film came out in 1994 and I remember the state of queer cinema back then, but I’m so disappointed at the maths. The film itself breaks it down a little, pointing out that thanks to the extra dimension of time all these possibilities can come to pass, and end in delight or disaster. But as a tagline itself…<\/p>\n

They could all not date each other. Four.<\/p>\n

She could date him and him (but the guys not date one another). Five.<\/p>\n

He could date him and her. Six.<\/p>\n

He could date her and him. Seven.<\/p>\n

They could all date each other. Eight, and possibly a trip to buy a bigger, sturdier bed.<\/p>\n

And then, as I say, time allows for any permutations of the above you choose. <\/p>\n

In short: Hollywood needs better maths teachers. <\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I came across this old film poster, from a film with a bi theme. You can almost hear the trailer-voice explaining how a woman ends up sharing university accomodation with two men – with hil-ar-ious consequences. I can hear it so well that I’m not going…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bi","category-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3110","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=3110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3110\/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=3110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}