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WCDT: 2530-2534 (9-13 September, 2013) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Neko_Ali:
I would personally disagree with the assessment that most people are monosexual. I think that society has to well programmed us into thinking that. We've been taught that there are boxes of sexuality, rather than a sliding curve. You are straight or gay... sometimes people add bi in there too. By which they usually mean people equally attracted to both men and women, or less polite ways of phrasing it. So pervasive this thought is that many people deny it in themselves. Then again I think a lot of the people who so strongly believe in the 'homosexuality is a choice' dogma are actually either homosexual or bisexual themselves, but don't admit to it. They decided to just date someone off the opposite sex, so they assume everyone else can do the same.
Of course I have no evidence to back this up. It's hard to get evidence on how often people deceive themselves. And I certainly don't suggest the theory that some have that 'all people are bi'. But through personal experience, other people's anecdotes and observations I suspect a lot more people are bisexual to some degree than they would admit.
westrim:
--- Quote from: Neko_Ali on 10 Sep 2013, 07:28 ---I would personally disagree with the assessment that most people are monosexual. I think that society has to well programmed us into thinking that. We've been taught that there are boxes of sexuality, rather than a sliding curve. You are straight or gay... sometimes people add bi in there too. By which they usually mean people equally attracted to both men and women, or less polite ways of phrasing it. So pervasive this thought is that many people deny it in themselves. Then again I think a lot of the people who so strongly believe in the 'homosexuality is a choice' dogma are actually either homosexual or bisexual themselves, but don't admit to it. They decided to just date someone off the opposite sex, so they assume everyone else can do the same.
Of course I have no evidence to back this up. It's hard to get evidence on how often people deceive themselves. And I certainly don't suggest the theory that some have that 'all people are bi'. But through personal experience, other people's anecdotes and observations I suspect a lot more people are bisexual to some degree than they would admit.
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I refuse to peck around for a full response on a smartphone screen, but suffice to say for now that we are working from a similar data set; I am quite aware that sexuality is currently simplified as a scale.
ankhtahr:
One of the reasons why I like this forums so much is how much I have learned from being here. I was always very open minded, but I just didn't know much about the whole topic of gender, sex, and sexuality. I never stumbled about this topic before, as I'm cis and probably hetero. But having read so much about this, from all you nice people has in a way opened my eyes to all the hetero- and cisnormativity in our society. That of course is uncomfortable, learning how bad so many people think about others, but I prefer it over being ignorant and, through that, unwillingly and unknowingly intolerant.
And just because I consider some men very attractive doesn't mean I'm sexually attracted to them. I mean, damn, David Tennant e.g. is incredibly handsome in my eyes.
Zemyla:
--- Quote from: Neko_Ali on 10 Sep 2013, 05:37 ---Social stigmata is still a real thing, even if it is easing up.
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Given we were talking about piercings, this is a particularly disturbing typo.
Neko_Ali:
--- Quote from: Zemyla on 10 Sep 2013, 08:52 ---
--- Quote from: Neko_Ali on 10 Sep 2013, 05:37 ---Social stigmata is still a real thing, even if it is easing up.
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Given we were talking about piercings, this is a particularly disturbing typo.
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Woops! I didn't even notice I did that...
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