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- From: alan@osf.org (Alan Hamilton)
- Subject: Re: Bisexuality and androgyny
- In-Reply-To: vanhoek@bend.ucsd.edu's message of 26 Jan 1993 03:09:20 GMT
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- Organization: Open Software Foundation
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 18:45:19 GMT
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- vanhoek@bend.ucsd.edu (Karen van Hoek) writes:
- > And the idea that being bisexual means you don't
- > notice or care about gender -- not true for me.
-
- Nor for me, though I have a wide range of enjoyment. ;-)
-
- I don't want to limit the normal range of people's appearance or
- self-expression. In fact, I want to expand it.
-
- That's why in the _Lesbigay and Transgender Glossary_ one of the
- definitions of "androgynous" is "independence from the \fIgender
- roles\fP specified by society." This is a meaning of androgynous that
- many more people can get behind, rather than just "I can't tell
- whether it's a man or a woman."
-
- -Alan
-