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- From: rsr@soda.berkeley.edu (Roy S. Rapoport)
- Newsgroups: soc.bi
- Subject: Re: Bi-wariness
- Date: 8 Jan 1993 21:18:14 GMT
- Organization: U.C. Berkeley, CS Undergraduate Association
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- In article <1993Jan6.213337.1@io.tudelft.nl> vdijk@io.tudelft.nl writes:
- ->Hi Peggy. I used to have a firm conviction that any group of people
- ->(white, black, muslim, chistian, feminist, gay, you name it) has its
- ->equal share of assholes.
- [...]
- ->Soc.bi sort of changed my ideas on this. Being a group where people
- ->tend to think of things from both sides seems to attract the more
- ->sensible among us.
-
- (With apologies to Mike ... )
-
- You may want to be wary of having such an attitude. It can leave you hurt
- when you find that you've been very wrong. I'm not saying that you _will_
- find you are wrong when you say that bisexuals are more sensible, but that
- you _might_.
-
- I used to feel the same way that you do ... that bisexuals are inherently
- somehow better, more sensible than others ... I was wrong. Finding that out
- hurt. Trust me. There are quite a few bisexual assholes out there (then
- again, some consider to me one of them). Realizing this may be a good thing.
-
- Cynical? Perhaps. I've become cynical in some ways lately ... It's an
- unfortunate side effect of learning that I really _don't_ like emotional
- pain, and deciding that if at all possible, I'm not going to let random
- strangers hurt me.
-
- IMHO, and YMMV as always ...
-
- -roy
-
-
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