The first time I saw Mimi and Sheshe almost kiss, I was thinking, "Oh yeah, they're just sisters. ''suure''."

The US Military has their "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy. People are ''finally'' getting mad enough to demand a repeal, and it's currently one of the bigger topics in American politics.

It's been repealed, though it still needs to be certified harmless to military readiness and have a 60-day waiting period before half the Navy is allowed to evacuate the closet. And yes, there is significant resistance from within the military to its repeal.

To be fair (and this is coming from a bisexual-bordering-on-lesbian troper who adamantly supports the repeal), there are legitimate concerns. Rape in the military ''does'' happen, more often than we'd like to acknowledge, and having people in close quarters with, changing in front of, showering with, etc. young, attractive people they are sexually attracted to can make this more risky. Before the repeal, it would be virtually impossible to get away with (same sex) harrassment. The obvious, gaping flaw in this, however, is that (a) the policy wasn't just used to stop harrassment and ended up with honorable men and women being sent home just for offhandedly using the "wrong" pronoun when reffering to their significant other and (b) the solution to sexual harrassment problems is to come down on both homosexual and heterosexual harrassment efficiently. Is it reasonable to ask that homosexual or bisexual soldiers keep their eyes in their head and make sure that their conduct around soldiers won't make anyone uncomfortable? Of course. But that doesn't mean you insult their service to the country by locking them in a closet.

My school tried to enforce this with stories like the EpicOfGilgamesh and Greek Mythology they epically failed.

Update: They gave up.

This troper and her girlfriend were one of two couples to be nominated at their very small private school for the "Best Couple" superlative. We were TECHNICALLY voted as such (said girlfriend was one of the ballot-counters), but for some reason the school decided to print the other, heterosexual couple instead. Maybe just the result of small-town homophobia...