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- From: sa121@cl.cam.ac.uk (S. Arrowsmith)
- Newsgroups: soc.bi
- Subject: Re: Bi-wariness
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.154700.25880@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
- Date: 7 Jan 93 15:47:00 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan6.223713.29004@nwnexus.WA.COM>
- elf@halcyon.com (Elf Sternberg) writes:
- >In article <1ieundINNfrl@transfer.stratus.com>
- > pfieland@citron.sw.stratus.com (Peggy Fieland) writes:
- >
- >>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".
- >
- > Of course, "to be right for one another" means you two meet some
- >mutually satifactory conditions, and for those women one of those
- >conditions is that you not be bisexual. (Gods, that's such a clinical
- >look at dating, but honest... anyway...)
- >
- I sort-of agree with this -- being "right for one another" does include
- seeing eye-to-eye on sexuality, whichever party is forced to back down
- (you to drop the bisexual label, or them to give up their insistance).
- You're never going to be the right person for someone who can't handle
- you being bi, so, as Elf says, forget about it -- they shouldn't be
- concerning you that way. But that strikes me as being a bit trite,
- and ignoring the irrationality of human emotions -- trying to argue
- people out of your life when you're already feeling alone isn't exactly
- the easiest thing in the world. Coping with rejection is probably a
- more general approach than trying to avoid it. More painful, maybe,
- but sooner or later you'll find acceptance, which will never happen if
- you don't look for it. Not that I follow my own advice (or even
- particularly believe in it....)
-
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