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- From: Albert-Lunde@nwu.edu (Albert Lunde)
- Subject: Re: Hissing...
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.223851.731@news.acns.nwu.edu>
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- Sender: lunde@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Albert Lunde)
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- References: <1992Nov21.110040.6812@nwnexus.WA.COM> <By4z5o.HHB@world.std.com> <1992Nov23.000652.4047@netcom.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 22:38:51 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov23.000652.4047@netcom.com>
- solovay@netcom.com (Andrew M. Solovay) writes:
- >I dunno... I think men are given to a different *kind* of
- >claptrap. When gay men hear that I'm bisexual, they sometimes act
- >amused and condescending ("I was bisexual once", "you're still
- >experimenting", "denial ain't just a river in Egypt" (pace Stuart
- >Smalley)). I don't experience actual *hostility*. Most of my bi
- >women friends, on the other hand, *have* experienced hostility
- >from some lesbians, who see being bisexual as "fraternising with
- >the enemy" or somesuch. The hissing sounds like that.
-
- I suspect some of these differences are the historical legacy
- of lesbian-feminism/seperatism. Gay men are less likely to have
- an ideological framework for biphobia. The 70's notion of the
- "political lesbian" may also have encouraged denial of bisexuality.
-
- Causes for this history might be attributed to differences
- in men's and women's roles. I think there are ideas about bis that
- are hang-overs from the 60 and 70s being passed on in gay/lesbian
- "folklore" -- at least where the communities are not very
- bi-aware.
- --
- Albert Lunde | Interfaith | *Y*Y* "A branch on the
- Albert-Lunde@nwu.edu | Bisexual | *Y* tree of life"
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