| 'not to be all "i'm more oppressed than you", but... i'm more oppressed than you.' |
[Sep. 6th, 2007|10:34 pm] |
weemo stuff:
so. the bandom wank, then. can we say "some people need to get their head out of their backsides"? i've said all i have to say elsewhere, but i need to repeat myself on one small point and just say a great big WTF to the fact that someone would ever bring up bowie as a good example of someone who challenged gender roles without "faking gay". the man as good as invented "fake gay". hi, i love bowie a lot, i know these things. also, one does not compare oppressions. it is Simply Not Done. god, some people are so rubbish at this whole debating lark. cuh.
life stuff:
yayness news: I HAS A LAPTOP! :D my mum and stepdad lent me the money. i heart them both very much.
booness news: officially not going to college. the reasons for this can be summed up with the simple sentence "kasper j sucks at life".
queer stuff:
what bugs me about the term "bisexual" is that, to me, personally, it implies that my sexuality is somehow split down the middle; that there are two "sides" to it; the straight side that is attracted to women, and the gay side that is attracted to men. and this may well be how some bisexuals view their own sexuality, which is fine and dandy, of course, but that's not how it works for me, that's not how i view my sexuality. with me, it's all a jumbled, tangly mess, and i like it that way. there are no lines, no "this is where the straight ends and the gay begins", no neat little compartments where parts of my sexuality, parts of my attractions, my desires and my being, are filed separate from each other. they all coexist merrily together, and make up the part of me that is my sexuality, which then, as with everyone, bleeds into other aspects of my life. and i like it that way.
however, people tend to be fond of simplicity, and generally i am, too, so if someone asks me directly if i'm bisexual, chances are i'll say that yeah, i aml, because it's close enough, and after all, what people want to know when they ask about your sexuality is whether you like girls or boys or both, and i do like both - as well as those who are neither, of course. but as a term, it bothers me, and it's one i really don't like using when referring to myself, which is why i generally opt for "queer" if i think the person i'm talking to will have an understanding of what i mean by it. eg my mother wouldn't have a clue, so as far as she's concerned, i'm bisexual. well, actually, she appears to have no flippin' idea what my sexuality is, but that's because she just hasn't been paying attention for the past decade or so. silly mum.
huh. no idea what prompted the above. probably the whole bandom wank thing and seeing eight billion people refer to themselves as bisexual in the comments. why do people do that whenever the issue at hand is sexuality? do they think that waving their queer card will somehow lend them more credibility? eh, i suppose it does make some sort of sense. lol i need to work on my internalised biphobia y/n?
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