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- From: 6500mary@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Mary Cardenas)
- Newsgroups: soc.bi
- Subject: Re: Bi-wariness
- Message-ID: <7320@ucsbcsl.ucsb.edu>
- Date: 11 Jan 93 16:42:32 GMT
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- In article <1ieundINNfrl@transfer.stratus.com> pfieland@citron.sw.stratus.com (Peggy Fieland) writes:
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- >I had a personal experience with bi-wariness last night, and
- >it has left me feeling, well, depressed, saddened, grief stricken,
- >or whatever.
-
- >I've been going to a lesbian rap group. I know, I know, I should
- >have been going to the bi rap.... Anyway, over coffee, I got
- >to trying to tell the others why I see myself as bisexual. Since
- >I've been through this before, I thought I was prepared for the
- >"If you want to be with a woman, why don't you call yourself a
- >lesbian?". What I had a really hard time with was the open, this
- >time, admission from a couple of the women, that they'd never, ever,
- >become involved with a bisexual, the subtext being, as far I could
- >tell, "Even if we were right for each other, I'd never even ask
- >you out because you're bisexual".
- >
- >
- >Peggy
-
- hi, i'm a lurking lesbian (de-muffining i guess on soc.bi)
- i've been lurking for some time, because i've been
- interested in a bisexual woman i know, and i've been
- reading soc.bi to try to get an understanding of, well,
- all the stuff you bisexuals have to put up with.
-
- i don't have any solutions for you, but i do think
- that sometimes lesbian raps have an agenda devoted
- to constructing the 'perfect lesbian'. you know, politically
- correct, political, anti-porn, anti-men...
- most of the raps i've been to haven't been supportive
- AT ALL of bisexuality. i guess most lesbians are frightened
- of being 'left for a man', or maybe they are frightened of
- `competing' with a man. personally, i feel that if
- a bisexual wants a man, great, but if she wants a woman,
- well....even better! :)
-
- good luck though.
-
- mary
-
- mary@oinker.ucsb.edu 6500mary@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu
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