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- From: Albert-Lunde@nwu.edu (Albert Lunde)
- Subject: Re: Bi-wariness
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.045952.9936@news.acns.nwu.edu>
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- Originator: lunde@casbah.acns.nwu.edu
- Sender: lunde@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Albert Lunde)
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- Reply-To: Albert-Lunde@nwu.edu (Albert Lunde)
- Organization: Ministry of Silly Walks
- References: <1ieundINNfrl@transfer.stratus.com>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 04:59:52 GMT
- Lines: 34
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- In article <1ieundINNfrl@transfer.stratus.com>
- pfieland@citron.sw.stratus.com (Peggy Fieland) writes:
- >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".
- [...]
- >Maybe it's just one of those weeks, but I'm feeling unusally
- >pessimistic, that I'll never find a woman, never move off this
- >point in my life. I'm feeling fragile and in need of support.
-
- <Hugs>
-
- I would encourage you to hang in there -- others can speak more directly
- about the women's communities than I, but my impression is there is
- a wide range of attitides towards bis, among both lesbians and gay men.
-
- Lesbian feminism has handed down a greater tendency to put this in
- ideological terms, (though I think this tends to rationalize myths
- about bis more than develop a factual analysis.)
-
- Communicating about being bi seems to me to call for a lot of "both/and"
- messages to an "either/or" world.
-
- --
- Albert Lunde | Interfaith | *Y*Y* "A branch on the
- Albert-Lunde@nwu.edu | Bisexual | *Y* tree of life"
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