Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site masscomp.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!prls!amdimage!amdcad!amd!masscomp!stone From: stone@masscomp.UUCP (Jonathan Stone) Newsgroups: net.motss Subject: Re: Feelings and discrimination Message-ID: <777@masscomp.UUCP> Date: Tue, 20-Aug-85 18:42:42 EDT Article-I.D.: masscomp.777 Posted: Tue Aug 20 18:42:42 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 23-Aug-85 08:29:13 EDT References: <138@well.UUCP> Reply-To: stone@masscomp.UUCP (Jonathan Stone) Organization: Masscomp - Westford, MA Lines: 23 In article <138@well.UUCP> rooter@well.UUCP (Brian Mavrogeorge) writes: > Having said that I must admit Iam uncomfortable with bi-sexuals. As >one person said - they are an enemy in both camps. In the past I have >experienced the bi-sexual's ambivalence towards the struggle for gay rights. >The bi-sexual's readiness to merge back into the heterosexual society when >the going got rough. While many bi-sexual's may or may not be "sunshine patriots", there are few things that can be said of all bi-sexuals to distinguish them from the remainder of humanity other than that they (we) are sexually attracted to both males and females (Not ALL anymore than a lesbian is necessarily attracted to ALL women). (One does *not* need to sleep with both sexes to be bi-sexual. It is *not* what you do, but how you feel.) To make sweeping generalizations (as you appear to me to be doing) runs counter to the very justice which gay activists are supposed to be fighting for. ( note: "gay"-activist may well be a hazardous term in that it may imply a non-gay would not wish to fight for gay rights. Opinions?) In short, bigotry is ugly regardless of the source or the recipient. Also, have you considered how difficult it is to stick around when the going gets "rough" if you don't even have the support of those who are supposedly on your side???