You ever read a headline and go, "Didn't that already happen?" That was me today when I saw on good ol' tabloid site Bleeding Cool that they had the, "SCOOP," how, "Marvel To Make Kitty Pryde Canonically Bisexual This Week." This left me scratching my head as this would be one of many times it's been made pretty clear Kitty Pryde is bi. We have multiple instances of subtext in Chris Claremont's X-Men run, other occurrences where it was vaguely discussed, and that time Kitty outright kissed a girl on the lips in 2020. Outside of Kitty flatly stating, "Hey everyone, I'm bisexual," it has been quite apparent she is attracted to men and women. Now, in the debut issue of, "Exceptional X-Men," she attempts to go on a date with a woman, resulting in us getting the, "Bombshell," of her sexuality that we all knew about already.
This is great as I welcome diversity in comics, but it is annoying to think that some people are so dense reading a story we have to make a character declare their sexual orientation for it to be clear to some folks. It is like when you read about historical figures who lived with their, "Friends," for their entire life and never married anyone of the opposite sex but were really close with that, "Friend," to the degree they shared a bed, and left them everything in the will. Such good chums/gal-pals, eh? Anyways, for the 30th or so time it will be noted that Kitty Pryde is attracted to men and women, this time in the pages of, "Exceptional X-Men #1," due to how she gets stood up for a date by another woman.
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