Monday, October 19, 2009

bisexual gay and straight

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  1. The F-WordOctober 19, 2009 at 6:27 PM

    first blog ever, and i mean ever, and already made a boo boo. Ok. What I was thinking about in class was that it's odd how we have other words for homosexuals and heterosexuals, such as gay and straight. When Jordana discussed the concept that it says sexual at the end of bisexual it makes bisexual a fully sexual word. Implying that bisexuals are all about having sex and sexual relations. Is there another word for bisexual? It's not often that people are referred to as homo or hetero in common society. Help me out with this one...

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  2. The F-WordOctober 19, 2009 at 10:19 PM

    there are words but they are super informal and usually kinda derogatory... aka switch hitter, ACDC, fence-sitter, heteroflexible, people who swing both ways, double dipper, there are a bunch out there.

    Many people use the term "queer" because it basically means not straight, while not necessarily adopting a purely homosexual identity. Another term people use is sexually fluid.

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  3. The F-WordOctober 19, 2009 at 11:08 PM

    thanks- ya, I'm glad to know what queer means, or is percieved as. been curious.

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  4. The F-WordOctober 26, 2009 at 10:39 PM

    Just some more thoughts on rigid labels.... fuck the labels, people in my experiences are attracted to personality traits, “chemistry”, certain body types/ ways of presenting oneself, mutual values, spiritual connections, the list goes on… I would absolutely love to see a word without labels for it I think it’d be much healthier, less stressful and certainly less divisive than now – I think that should be our ultimate goal. I identify as queer because I can’t deny that I could be attracted to someone based on an emotional connection – not simply because they are biologically female. I have the capacity to have a love connection with humans in general. BUT, that being said, what we have in our hands to work with is a society that does put a huge emphasis on labels. So, what do we do with that? Do we argue the validity of each orientation? Do we argue that sexuality is fluid, thus helping along the way to negating labels altogether? What happens when people start to see sexuality as more fluid, more malleable than we previously thought, does it mean that all the rights gays and lezzies fought for go out the window because all the sudden their rights aren’t based on who they are? Is sexuality an essential, i.e. inherent trait or a social construction?
    A lot of the gay community’s struggle has been to prove *that they exist* and that they have no choice over whom they love… how can we still affirm this and also leave room for folks who don’t necessarily fit into either side of the spectrum, the folks we’ve slapped the all-too-broad label of “bisexuals”?
    -Kelsey

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  5. The F-WordNovember 9, 2009 at 8:07 PM

    word. you make a lot of sense. this blog was made by sarah e roisman. can't figure out the edit lol.

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