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- From: mjb@doc.ic.ac.uk (Matthew J Brown)
- Newsgroups: soc.bi
- Subject: Re: Bisexuality and androgyny
- Date: 28 Jan 93 14:35:01
- Organization: Department Of Computing, Imperial College, London.
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- In-reply-to: ac999273@umbc.edu's message of 27 Jan 1993 15:47:57 -0500
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- In article <1k6sdtINN9td@umbc5.umbc.edu> ac999273@umbc.edu (ac999273) writes:
- > In article <1993Jan27.200605.15795@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> crisp@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Badvoc) writes:
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- >>To me being bisexual mean you don't think gender is very important.
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-
- > I disagree. I am bi, and gender is still extremely important to
- > me.
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- I think the problem here is for each of you, your bisexuality means a
- different thing *to you*. It's an easy and dangerous path to start
- thinking 'well, I'm bisexual, and I think X, so therefore bisexuals
- think X.' We're a very disparate group of people, and therefore all
- but the most inclusive definitions of 'bisexual' only cover a few of
- us. It often seems to me that we're defined as much by what we're
- *not* as what we are; we're a group of people who have all decided
- 'we're not gay, and not straight, and not sexless' - the only other
- alternative within easy reach is 'bisexual' so we apply that to
- ourselves, because it's less inaccurate than the others. Of course,
- this is probably an inaccurate definition too ...
-
- -Matt/Morven
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