They had decided on these storylines, both gave roughly the same answer: It just made sense for the characters when I asked showrunners Jennie Snyder Urman (Jane the Virgin) and Aline Brosh McKenna (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) why.
“I happened to be thinking on how Petra might be amazed and swept off her legs and recognize things about by herself that she didn’t understand,” Urman said. Since Petra has “always used intercourse as being a commodity in relationships,” her realization it never had before that she might not just admire J.R. but be drawn to her romantically opened up her storyline in a way.
The same held true for Valencia. “We began to consider what it could seem like on her to fall in deep love with someone,” said Brosh McKenna, “and someone stated, вЂIt might be a lady.’ It felt organic.”
While Crazy Ex-Girlfriend devoted enough time and a individualized song whenever Darryl arrived on the scene as bisexual earlier (more on him later on), Brosh McKenna emphasized that them perhaps not doing the exact same for Valencia didn’t suggest they took her sex less really. In reality, she said, it simply intended these were considering just exactly exactly what she as a character would do. “Valencia had been seeking to fulfill an individual who respects her cleverness, her humor, and job ambitions,” Brosh McKenna stated. That individual “just so were Beth.”
Urman additionally described Petra being a character whom makes a place of perhaps perhaps not dwelling on her behalf emotions, which led them to err toward her almost instantly accepting her attraction to J.R. It’s the exact same reason, in reality, that the great spot creator Mike Schur used to spell out why the show never clearly had its salty protagonist Eleanor (Kristen Bell) examine her increasingly clear lust for Tahani (Jameela Jamil) either.
To quote Eleanor (Kristen Bell), she “might legit have the hots” for Tahani (Jameela Jamil). Colleen Hayes/NBC
But that is not to imply the Jane the Virgin authors did consider the broader n’t implications of telling Petra’s story of just how she considered by by herself become right, until she didn’t. “I’ve been hearing far more stories about later-in-life discoveries people are making about by themselves,” said Urman. “You understand, you develop a particular means and you get along side, вЂWell, I’m drawn to this guy and so I needs to be straight’ … but individuals are complicated. This felt like the opportunity for people to inform that tale.”
Petra and Valencia found these conclusions about being drawn to females without negating their previously established tourist attractions to guys casually, but that sorts of way of a sexual awakening tale is nevertheless fairly unusual. Growing up, seeing somebody back at my TV look at the idea they would “experiment” with someone of the Cams Love Holics same sex only to conclude they were straight, or they would come out as gay that they might not be strictly heterosexual usually ended one of two ways. Permitting them exist someplace in between had been hardly ever, if ever, introduced as being a viable choice.
“Our simultaneous desire for and anxiety about individuals and desires that defy easy categorization stems from the thing I call вЂcompulsory monosexuality,’ or the social force become either straight or gay,” stated The B term author San Filippo. What’s more, she included, “another factor challenging bisexual representation is the fact that unless a character clearly identifies as bisexual, we have a tendency to assume somebody is right or homosexual considering their present partner something real-life bisexuals additionally cope with.”
The like television, characters whom veered away from one sex lane have a tendency to either stay static in a solitary brand new lane, or veer right back into where they arrived from. (ab muscles of good use television Tropes database calls this sensation “But not.” that is too bi