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- From: bbooth@x400gate.bnr.ca (Brad Booth)
- Subject: Re: Lifestyle (was Re: Coming out to family)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.145128.5322@bcrka451.bnr.ca>
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- Reply-To: bbooth@x400gate.bnr.ca (Brad Booth)
- Organization: BNR, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 14:51:28 GMT
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- J.W.Harley@newcastle.ac.uk (Jon Harley) writes:
- > bbooth@x400gate.bnr.ca (Brad Booth) writes:
- > >I think that lifestyle is defined by the way you choose to live your
- > >life.
- >
- > That's exactly what I said.
-
- Hmmm... maybe I wasn't clear, or misunderstood your point. What I was
- trying to get across is (IMHO) that lifestyle and sexuality can be
- independent. Lifestyle is a perception thing... how you think you
- are living your life, or how others may perceive that you live your
- life. Sexuality is a feeling or expression of your sexual interest
- or receptivity.
-
- For example, some people may perceive that I live active, hetero,
- or monogamous lifestyles; whereas, others may perceive that I live
- artistic, gay or poly lifestyles. Many people will have different
- lifestyle interpretations for me... none of which would probably
- be wrong, just dependent on the circumstances in which they meet
- me. But, *I* choose how I wish to live my life and how others
- will perceive it.
-
- > I doubt anyone who didn't actually have sex with MOTSS would *want* to claim that
- > they lived a queer lifestyle, at least in my understanding of the term.
-
- I would disagree... if someone felt more comfortable in the company
- of gays or with the "queer lifestyle," then they may choose to
- associate themselves in that way. I know people who would be
- considered to live a "queer lifestyle," yet haven't actually had sex
- with a motss.
-
- > >Your sexuality is a seperate matter. I like the Webster's def'n for
- > >sexuality:
- > > "expression of sexual receptivity or interest"
- > >Bi's, queers and straights all exhibit this. We're all sexual
- > >creatures. We also all choose to life our lives in very different,
- > >but sometime similar, ways.
- >
- > I disagree. Closeted queers (including bis) may be too afraid to _express_ any sexual
- > interest they may have in MOTSS, for instance. If this is the case then they are not
- > choosing to live a queer lifestyle. Yet if they do have the sexual interest, that is
- > part of their sexuality, and it is unlikely to be chosen.
-
- But who is to say what a "queer lifestyle" is? Being queer may be just
- one component of your lifestyle. If "queer lifestyle," "bi lifestyle"
- and "het lifestyle" are related to your sexuality, then closeted queers,
- bi's and het's have as much claim to that "lifestyle" as someone who is
- not closeted. Your sexuality is part of you, but your lifestyle is a
- choice, your choice.
-
- > My point was that lifestyle is chosen, sexuality may not be.
-
- I agree... my point was that your lifestyle is diverse. Your sexuality
- is just a component of your lifestyle.
-
-
- Opinions of,
-
- __o Brad Booth | "If somebody feels really good
- _`\<,_ Bell-Northern Research | about who they are, they don't
- (*)/ (*) Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | feel threatened by what other
- ---------- bbooth@x400gate.bnr.ca | people are." - Dr. M. Rubenstein
-