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In reply to the discussion: This message was self-deleted by its author [View all]xfundy
(5,105 posts)I didn't think i hit the post button on this one. Yes, really.
But, what I was trying to get into is something along these lines--
I'm gay. Never even had a flicker of attraction to girls, except as great friends. I've been hit on by married guys, some of whom get pissed off if I tell them I'm not going to be a party to cheating. I'm not claiming to be irresistible or any kind of catch, and haven't had a date in a couple of years.
The idea of classifying people as one or the other is harmful, as should be obvious. (I should have been gender inclusive in the OP.) Many gay people, myself once included, considered bi a cop-out. The fact of the matter is people should start worrying about their own lives and stay out of others'.
Near the turn of the century, after Magnus Hirschfeld devised the classification, fundies, "doctors," and uptight society types made an industry out of demonizing people, and that industry is thriving now.
The insistence on dividing/demonizing based on something as personal as sex is dangerous to society. yet some have put so much misplaced "pride" in being heterosexual, the problem has become compounded and probably intractable.
A discussion I didn't then and don't now have the energy or intelligence to solve.
So, apologies for the post.
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