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Pansexuality - is there such a thing?


I think that Pauline may or may not have been a Pansexual - attracted to an individuals personality rather than gender. In this case, she was attracted to artists, assuming she was a Pansexual. It's like Bisexual, but more specific.



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Strange title - yes, pansexuality is real. Personally I thought Pauline was perhaps bisexual, rather than lesbian, so pansexual is a possibility. I don't see what being attracted to artists has to do with it, though; I mean most people have some sort of preference when it comes to the kind of person they find attractive in terms of the interests they have/their personality etc. These preferences have nothing to do with being straight, gay, bi, pan or anything else.

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My take is that Pauline was "attracted" to Juliet, and the whole obsession over artists was simply an emulation of her new hero. Had she even heard of Mario Lanza before rushing out to get one of his albums and being apparently consumed by rapture by its opening notes?

Pansexuality isn't about a "type" of person, it's about being attracted to an individual regardless of gender. Gender blindness, so to speak. It most assuredly does exist.

While most people do adore labels that make it easy to categorize others and their behaviors, I think it's important to not focus on the two girls' sexual orientation. Just because their obsession with one another eventually expressed itself physically doesn't mean that they're necessarily lesbians or fit any other particular label. Sexuality is a fluid and often situational thing.

That said, the girls' physical intimacy can be viewed as a pansexual response in a relationship that was not necessarily based on a physical attraction to one another. We know little of their intimate personal lives after the murder.

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My take is that Pauline was "attracted" to Juliet, and the whole obsession over artists was simply an emulation of her new hero.


She's shown drawing horses before she even meets Juliet. She was already interested in the arts. Juliet may have influenced what art Pauline was drawn to, but Pauline was already interested in the arts in general.

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That is not true at all. A pansexual is like bisexual, but less specific. Pansexual means: not limited or inhibited in sexual choice with regard to gender or activity.

I am not sure if there is anything to really suggest they were bisexual instead of homosexual.

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I am not sure if there is anything to really suggest they were bisexual instead of homosexual.
Pauline had a boyfriend and both girls had crushes on male celebrities. I haven't seen the film in a while so I might be wrong but I think even when they had sex they pretended each other were men. I'm not saying this means they were definitely bi/pan and not gay but I think it suggests they might have been.

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