alanis morissette came out as pansexual on election day and nobody noticed until the weekend. isn't it ironic.
Photo: Justin Higuchi from Los Angeles, CA, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
via the Handsome podcast and Gay Times
The episode went up at 5am Pacific on Nov. 3. You may remember Nov. 3 for other reasons. So it took until the weekend for anyone to notice that, about an hour into a conversation with Tig Notaro, Fortune Feimster and Mae Martin on their podcast Handsome, Alanis Morissette came out.
The setup was her catalog. After some talk about the men who inspired the songs, one host, Feimster according to Gay Times, asked whether it had ever made her want to be a lesbian.
"I'm pansexual, so yeah," Morissette said, on tape.
"Wait, you're not really pansexual, are you?" came the follow-up, which Gay Times credits to Notaro. "I am," she said. When the hosts protested that she should have led with it, she had her answer ready: "You know, I like to leave it for the epilogue." And then, the most Alanis sentence ever recorded: "to confuse people on the way out. Is it confusing?"
It is not, babe. Gay Times notes it is the first time she has put a label on it. She was also, per the hosts, Handsome's first in-person guest. Hell of a debut.
Somewhere a 1996 teenager with Jagged Little Pill on cassette is feeling very seen and slightly smug.
the internet reacts
by the weekend it had reached the part of the internet that asks grok.
cherry @le58ianalanis morisette came out as pansexual so taylor had to do something drastic62 likesrain☔ @RainonnmeeeReddit romours are saying that Alanis Morissette has recently come out as pansexual. Is this actually true? hey @grok , And could you explain what being pansexual means? I've honestly never heard of this term before.409 likesNathan ❌ and the 5 1/2 minute Hallway @DazzlerAOATo act like Alanis hasn’t had a long running support of the LGBTQIA+ community is wild. To give someone a hard time for coming out as pansexual publicly in a way you choose is harmful to other queer youth who have the attraction but maybe not the experience you want.3 likes
