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- From: muffy@remarque.berkeley.edu (Muffy Barkocy)
- Newsgroups: soc.bi
- Subject: Re: Understanding
- Date: 23 Dec 92 23:49:18
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- In-reply-to: mlloyd@ocf.berkeley.edu's message of 24 Dec 1992 06:19:10 GMT
-
- In article <1hbkouINNo76@agate.berkeley.edu> mlloyd@ocf.berkeley.edu (M. Lloyd) writes:
- >Graydon <SAUNDRSG@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> writes:
- >>
- >>And, Muffy, why *do* you regard yourself as bi, rather than say, as
- >>a person with catholic tastes in sex partners? (honestly curious).
-
- >*splutter* OK, I'm not Muffy (I can't wear that black stretchy
- >non-dress *nearly* as well as she can), but *splutter* all the same.
-
- Hee hee...at least you can get into it, which is only true of some of my
- dresses. Wait until you see the black dress covered in ankhs that I'm
- wearing for New Year's Eve!
-
- >I
- >have no idea what that question is supposed to mean. I, for one, would
- >happily respond "I'm both".
-
- I feel pretty much the same way as Mike, here. I don't think I
- understand the question. However, I wouldn't really say that I'm
- "both". I don't care about the sex of my partners; in our society, that
- is called "bisexual," so that's the word I'm using. "Catholic" suggests
- more of a lack of discrimination, or, that I like *everything* in my sex
- partners. That is certainly not the case. I like them to be
- intelligent, I like them to be feminists (*grin*), I have all sorts of
- preferences, and all sorts of dislikes. I'm "catholic" only in the
- matter of gender, and that is not even certain, as I do not know that I
- have met or like all the possible genders, whatever they may be.
-
- To answer your question more simply, I do not have interest in all
- people as lovers, so "catholic" is inappropriate.
-
- So, how about you, Graydon? Are you bisexual? Catholic in your tastes
- in sex partners? Or what? And why?
-
- Muffy
- --
-
- Muffy Barkocy | ~Can you tell me how much bleeding/it
- muffy@mica.berkeley.edu | takes to fill a word with meaning and/
- "amorous inclinations"? Aha! I'm | how much how much death it takes/to give
- not "not straight," I'm *inclined*.| a slogan breath?~ - Bruce Cockburn
-