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- From: solovay@netcom.com (Andrew M. Solovay)
- Subject: Re: Hissing...
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.000652.4047@netcom.com>
- Organization: Smiley Abolition Front
- References: <1992Nov21.110040.6812@nwnexus.WA.COM> <By4z5o.HHB@world.std.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 00:06:52 GMT
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- In article <By4z5o.HHB@world.std.com> jcf@world.std.com (Joseph C Fineman) writes:
- >elf@halcyon.com (Elf Sternberg) writes:
- >
- >> One of the women took me to task afterwards, telling me that I was
- >>born this way, and that the contacts I had made only showed me the
- >>'truth of my existence.'
- >
- >I think, however, that in describing this interchange you ought not to
- >have stressed the sex of your interlocutor ("one of the women", etc.),
- >as it is truly irrelevant & might be taken as slur on that sex. Men
- >are *at least* as much given to that kind of claptrap as women are.
-
- I dunno... I think men are given to a different *kind* of
- claptrap. When gay men hear that I'm bisexual, they sometimes act
- amused and condescending ("I was bisexual once", "you're still
- experimenting", "denial ain't just a river in Egypt" (pace Stuart
- Smalley)). I don't experience actual *hostility*. Most of my bi
- women friends, on the other hand, *have* experienced hostility
- from some lesbians, who see being bisexual as "fraternising with
- the enemy" or somesuch. The hissing sounds like that.
- --
- Andrew Michael Solovay
-
- "When angry, count four. When very angry, swear."
- --Mark Twain
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