“The Circle” Is Here With Bisexual Chaos — and Spice Girls!

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  1. Ok I’m so glad to see this because I have so many opinions!

    First of all, Rachel said once that her sexuality was fluid and more about personality and vibe then gender, so she’s somewhere in the bi+ umbrella from what I understood!

    Also Alyssa and Bru feeling threatened by Crissa felt like a combo of homophobia and racism because like y’all said, Crissa wasn’t playing a brilliant game really! Like at that point Carol seemed like more of someone to watch. But they seemed just scared of her. Same with going after Frank. Like he’s just a ball of love and joy and again they were demonizing him for what seemed like unconscious bias more than anything.

    Also, when everyone was like ‘Yu-Ling needs to come out of her shell more’, that also felt like othering?? Like she’d been totally herself and her big personality in the chats and also in that cake she made and stuff but I feel like the white characters just felt like it was harder to relate to her. Like, Alyssa and bru WERE always closer to each other than Yu-Ling, and Carol too! I can see situations where they wouldn’t have saved Yu-Ling. Like I feel like the “throuple” was pure strategy while Frank, Rachel, and Yu-Ling are three people who would actually feel safe and loved around each other.

    I am LOVING tho how the white cishets and their alliances seem to be losing, other than Nathan (ughhhh nathan).

    I also did not love the twist of bringing Trevor in, but it’s fine I guess lol. So long as he or Nathan/Alex don’t win.

  2. definitely a lot of queer cuties this season! In addition to Frank and Crissa, Rachel is definitely queer and I feel like Yu Ling is also queer (she was the first one who suggested a throuple; she said she was nearly about to flirt with Imani).

    also i do not approve of all this ambivalence towards Crissa!!! at the beginning I felt she was a bit quiet/neutral but she really grew on me, and towards her last few episodes all I could think was LET ME STICK MY TONGUE IN YOUR ARMPIT, CRISSA

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