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- From: muffy@remarque.berkeley.edu (Muffy Barkocy)
- Newsgroups: soc.bi
- Subject: Looking bi? (was Re: coming out to my parents)
- Date: 19 Nov 92 11:06:08
- Organization: Natural Language Incorporated
- Lines: 40
- Message-ID: <MUFFY.92Nov19110608@remarque.berkeley.edu>
- References: <s882916.721962102@otto> <1992Nov18.153149.23717@ctp.com>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: remarque.berkeley.edu
- In-reply-to: sthor@ctp.com's message of Wed, 18 Nov 1992 15:31:49 GMT
-
- In article <1992Nov18.153149.23717@ctp.com> sthor@ctp.com (Sarah Thornburg) writes:
- >In article <s882916.721962102@otto> s882916@otto (Vikki POLLARD) writes:
- >>etc etc." Plus everyone says I don't look like a dyke!!!???!!!!!! And this is
- >>Dykes who say this.
-
- >Okay, so here's a question - why is it that gays and lesbians seem to
- >believe that every one who is *not* het shouldn't *look* het.
-
- To the point, sometimes, of not openly going around with motos, since
- that makes you "look het." Bleah.
-
- >I mean really! I look like the average
- >girl-next-door, and quite frankly, that's also the kind of woman I am
- >attracted to. I don't believe that makes me any less bi than someone who
- >"looks" lesbigay.
-
- Yup, yup, yup. Me too, on all counts. (Well, I don't think the average
- girl-next-door wears black most of the time, but I just can't stand
- pastels...*grin*.)
-
- It would be neat if there was a way of "looking bi." However, I don't
- think I, personally, would conform beyond pins and t-shirts and such
- anyway...I like the way I look and dress. Still, that changes over
- time, and if there was some way of looking bi, I might slowly adopt more
- of that look, if I thought it suited me.
-
- I figure that I *should* "look bi" if I go around with a man on one arm
- and a woman on the other...*grin*...and it's *fun*, too! Unfortunately,
- having done this, I find that people *still* tend to take that as "a man
- with two women (wink wink nudge nudge)," even when *I* am in the middle.
- Bleah again.
-
- Muffy
-
- --
-
- Muffy Barkocy muffy@mica.berkeley.edu
- ~Weavers' fingers flying on the loom/patterns shift too fast to be
- discerned/all these years of thinking/ended up like this/in front
- of all this beauty/understanding nothing~ - Bruce Cockburn
-