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- From: brumby@nella7.cc.monash.edu.au (Stephen McNamara)
- Subject: Re: Definition of "monogamy"?
- Message-ID: <brumby.725923590@nella7.cc.monash.edu.au>
- Sender: news@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Usenet system)
- Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
- References: <memo.833601@cix.compulink.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 21:26:30 GMT
- Lines: 84
-
- The brumby flicks his ears up as someone peers through a crack in the
- door, before walking in.
-
- cliveg@cix.compulink.co.uk (Clive Grace) writes:
-
- [...]
- > He looks over at Mary and Ignatz holding hands in some dark corner and smiles a b
- >it more, it's a real smile. Not one borne out of pain o
- > out of being 'strong' or 'macho'. Goodness knows how many times he's tried being lik
- >e other 'model' men, strong, unemotional, unfeeling. Th
- >t's in the past now. He *is* emotional (and proud of it), he *is*
- >feeling and caring and sensitive, he speaks his mind, he has a light
-
- "I never did manage to follow that macho act, though I was made to
- suffer for not living up to it quite a few times. I sometimes wonder who
- ended up suffering more though."
-
- [...]
- > "I'll have a Tequila please Mike. Salted rim, no ice, no cherry and... and that'l
- >l be my 'usual' from now on. The name's Tanais by the w
- >y"
-
- The brumby blows down his nose in an equine greeting.
-
- [...]
- > "Non monogamy huh? That's an interesting discussuion, and of course everything Ma
- >ry says is right. It's up to the *individual*, but when
-
- The brumby chuckles softly.
- "I stayed out of this discussion, because monogamy probably isn't a
- strong enough word for my relationship with Robyn. I'm not really sure why,
- but I seem to only really be capable of devoting myself to one person. At
- all, as far as I can tell."
-
- > "Take, for example my particular beliefs. I'm Bisexual. That means I'm sexually an
- >d emotionally compatible with both men and women. I'm a
- >so attracted to other species. Mind you, I'm not attracted to *all*
-
- The brumby flicks one ear forwards, and one back.
-
- [...]
- >"I just want to be listened and... and to be *believed*. The times I
- >tried telling people as a kid and they didn't believe me because I
- >botched the telling of the story... but that's all in the past now,
- >that's for other people to hear.
-
- "One thing I have promised to try and do with Jenny is to *listen* to
- her. I suppose I am fortunate that nothing particularly bad ever happened
- to me during my childhood, but there were things that seemed bad at the
- time. For some reason though all the adults around me refused to consider
- my experiences as valid as their own. It just gave me the feeling that for
- some reason I wasn't good enough to be listened to, that I wasn't really
- important. And then when I got older my parents wanted to know why I
- wouldn't talk to them, why I never bothered to tell them anything
- important. I still have a lot of trouble believing that anyone would want
- to listen to me at times."
- "I am hoping that I won't do the same thing to Jenny, but I worry that I
- will do as I have been told a lot of other people do, and follow my own
- parents example."
-
- [...]
- > "I was told that I would be a horrible monster if I told anyone, that if anyone f
- >ound out, my family would disown me." Tanais started to
- >laugh bitterly into his jug, now drained of half it's contents.
- >"Well, I disowned them long ago, in quiet, subtle ways, but I
- >disowned them for sure. I'm now a stranger in their eyes when I walk
- >through the door or speak to them over a comm-link"
-
- "Hey, being disowned by your family isn't always a bad thing. Although
- in my case my parents ended up sort of following me, so I get along with
- them better now than I have for 15 years. But the rest of the McNamara's
- were nailing me into a nice neat box that I couldn't fit into without
- giving up a lot of myself. "
-
- The brumby looks across at the counter-clock and realises he is supposed
- to be doing other things right now, rather than rambling due to lack of
- sleep.
-
-
- --
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- the Silicon Plains brumby@zikzak.apana.org.au
-
- The grass is always greener on the other side of the network.
-