The New Bi-Standers
MOST OF YOU PROBABLY WILL ONLY READ A FEW PARAGRAPHS OR NONE OF IT AT ALL SO I WILL SUM UP THIS SHIT..THE FOLLOWING TOPIC IS CONTROVERSIAL AND IS FUCKING RIDICULOUS
"Some do it for attention. Some do it because guys like it. And some do it just because they can. It's definitely a fad," says Stranahan High student Christy Shalley, president of the Fort Lauderdale school's Gay Straight Alliance.
Here's where you should start asking questions. Why is the "Gay Straight Alliance" so concerned about this if it's nothing more than something people do for fun?
Wait just a minute...could it be that that's EXACTLY why they're concerned with it? After all, anything that makes people accept sexualized behavior associated with gays must be a good thing, right? Teen girls making out with each other at parties are going to help cast off the chains of oppression that the Evil Straight Patriarchy™ has imposed for years!
Let's read more about how this "trendy" behavior came to be:
Of course. God forbid we let The Grownups™ know about it. They might want to join in and relive the free-love generation.
"...He adds that some girls may truly be questioning their sexuality, but others just want to be perceived as hot. "Girls go for the whole mystery thing. And guys usually think it's attractive. It's a turn-on. It's more of a teasing thing. At parties, girls randomly kiss, and guys are like, `Oh! That's awesome!'" he says."
Contradictions...hurting...brain! So, the way to get guys to like you is to make it look like you're attracted to girls? That makes so much sense! I know I'm always looking for the hot lesbian chicks!
Let me briefly go back to the normalization point, too. Notice how something that was once a taboo is now portrayed as a turn-on, as well as something to make you more popular. It's no longer just "okay to be gay," but better!
Now, we come to the media bias section of our program, where I shall show you how the media are actively participating in the normalization process. Let's look at the TWO dissenting opinions given in the article:
"It's wrong. God made us male and female for a reason," says Jenny Saint Jean, 15, a freshman at Fort Lauderdale High.
Karla Núñez, 16, agrees: "I don't go to those kind of parties.
Did anyone not see that coming? The first girl who disagrees is religious, so of course her opinion will be considered equally valid. And the second girl doesn't go to parties, which means she's no fun and her opinion doesn't matter either! Kiss on, bisecksuals! Kiss on!
"It's important to take [bisecksuality] as a serious identity. It's a myth that [bisecksuality] is a phase," counters California-based Denise Penn, president of BiNet USA, one of the oldest advocacy and network groups in the nation for [bisecksuals.] "Maybe these girls aren't faking it. Maybe `[bisecksual cheec'] gives them a way of exploring their [bisecksuality] without committing to it. They can say, `Oh, we're just playing.'"
From the looks of things, that's all anyone is ever doing. There's no such thing as a serious relationship. Everyone's just "playing" or "experimenting." They never have to commit to any one person or gender, because then they wouldn't have as much fun, and they wouldn't be able to explore their sexual diversity.
Penn says, it doesn't really matter who's faking and who's not. She thinks the entire issue conveys a larger message. "People like to categorize us, label us, so they can frame their thinking about us. But sexuality is so complex," she says. "Everyone is different."
That says a lot. This is an active effort to remove all labels of sexuality. After all, life is just a competition to see who can get laid more often. Commitment and restraint are archaic concepts that were used in the past to keep women and homosexuals in their place.
By now, acceptation of the different seems to have turned into fetish and stirn up more than just deep waters as the hip generation is catching on to the credo-potential of swinging both ways. Being able to choose your partners from either sexes -and note that it means any sexes- equals taking a stand: that of not taking a stand, but insisting on having the freedom of choice. Bisexuality as it is presented today seems to mean 'Look Ma'! I can do what I want!'
The New Bi-standers
The word of 95 is bi chic, but it is difficult to tell if the existence of the advertised social phenomenon is natural as the media are quick to credit the episode with the promotion of the open-minded mass-slogan: freedom of choice.
Is it really the naturally lurking bisexuality in humans that is coming out in the open these days so overwhelmingly that you can't open a magazine without reading a glossy special on it, or is the healthy process of finally learning to accept yet another subculture turning into a trend? By now, acceptation of the different seems to have turned into fetish and stirn up more than just deep waters as the hip generation is catching on to the credo-potential of swinging both ways. Being able to choose your partners from either sexes -and note that it means any sexes- equals taking a stand: that of not taking a stand, but insisting on having the freedom of choice. Bisexuality as it is presented today seems to mean 'Look Ma'! I can do what I want!'
"Being able to choose your partners from either sexes -note that it means any sexes- equals taking a stand: that of not taking a stand, but insisting on freedom of choice."
Celebrities are making revelations every day, and by now the fuss is so sizeable that one can't help but think what Majorie Garber, bi-cult author queen, has aptly pointed out: "Either bisexuality makes you a celebrity, or a remarkable number of celebrities are bisexual." Starlets such as rock star-wife Amanda de Cadenet and Curt Cobain's widow Courtney Love, well aware that all it takes to get the klieg lights on these days is a little girl-girl action, have perfected the ambiguous behaviour to such an extent that, without anything else to their credit, star status glues to their $1 tiara-essence partner look."
Ad whizzes got the message too: ambiguity sells. Icon-like corporation giants and lebensgefuhl-experts, led a mile-long by Versace and Dolce & Gabbana, run campaigns with hinting images, designers cultivate gender plays on the catwalk, and the hottest campus flicker of the moment is rompy Threesome, the jingle of which probably sums up the idea behind the new way of viewing life best: "One girl, two boys, three possibilities." Joining the club of instinctive geniuses of philosophy equals illustrating progressive thinking by putting the simple theory into practice that the next object of your admiration could just as well be a male as a female. Accepting the new love relativity thesis is a must for everyone interested in the sign of the times, and according to the well- informedness of cultic insider magazines, hardly any resistance is put up by the socially ambitious. Doing it or not doing it is not really the question here - agreeing to the possibility of the affair ever occurring is. The trend is flowering, celebrating the final awakening, but we have yet to decide whether the media are descriptive or rather activating their cogent prescriptive function.
American research shows that more and more women experiment within their sultry world these days, and an increasing number of members of university gay clubs are correcting their standpoints to be playing it bothways. Campuses seem to be the hot-bed of the trend, and branded in our brains we get newly established terms such as BUG (Bisexual Until Graduation), suggesting that the bi trip is as much a part of the campus experience as fetishizing Monty Python. Presented scientific evidence is always a winner due to the human psyche's longing for belonging, in fact it may even leave a debilitating 'Everybody's doing it, so I cannot be normal if I don't' aftertaste in the reader, only multiplying with every further news round-up reporting on the social stand.
A subcultural liberation turning into a trend may do its real fighters good by winning them an enormous bonus of sympathisers, but in this case the discussion over the bi-spirit entangles simply everybody from the shabby milkman to the Saturday night queenie as their congenital interest in their fellow underwear-shoppers is being scrutinised under a magnifying glass. The media- symposium on the new sexual norm even reaches philosophical heights as last month saw the invention of the term 'bi virgin', "a bisexual who has never had a homosexual experience." It is not easy to judge whether this term is a bliss, and if yes, to whom. It may imply, and this interpretation is the most logically deductive, the psychological slant that we all have the same-side-stray inclination buried somewhere deep down, thus the buzz-word symbolises an almost persuasive hint to release the spirit from the bottle. "The symposium reaches philosophical heights as last month saw the invention of the term 'bi virgin'." WHOOPEDY FUCKIN DOO!!
Some do, some don't, and some will try anything once. Promoted to overkill, the bi experience can get chic to the point that no one can feel complete without having had one. Psycho fumbling aside, hardly any serious harm goes with following this trend, but seeing an entire generation dancing to the two- chord tune of bored media whizzes is like catching Dad in the act of gluing on the fake beard on Christmas Eve at the age of four.
"Some do it for attention. Some do it because guys like it. And some do it just because they can. It's definitely a fad," says Stranahan High student Christy Shalley, president of the Fort Lauderdale school's Gay Straight Alliance.
Here's where you should start asking questions. Why is the "Gay Straight Alliance" so concerned about this if it's nothing more than something people do for fun?
Wait just a minute...could it be that that's EXACTLY why they're concerned with it? After all, anything that makes people accept sexualized behavior associated with gays must be a good thing, right? Teen girls making out with each other at parties are going to help cast off the chains of oppression that the Evil Straight Patriarchy™ has imposed for years!
Let's read more about how this "trendy" behavior came to be:
Of course. God forbid we let The Grownups™ know about it. They might want to join in and relive the free-love generation.
"...He adds that some girls may truly be questioning their sexuality, but others just want to be perceived as hot. "Girls go for the whole mystery thing. And guys usually think it's attractive. It's a turn-on. It's more of a teasing thing. At parties, girls randomly kiss, and guys are like, `Oh! That's awesome!'" he says."
Contradictions...hurting...brain! So, the way to get guys to like you is to make it look like you're attracted to girls? That makes so much sense! I know I'm always looking for the hot lesbian chicks!
Let me briefly go back to the normalization point, too. Notice how something that was once a taboo is now portrayed as a turn-on, as well as something to make you more popular. It's no longer just "okay to be gay," but better!
Now, we come to the media bias section of our program, where I shall show you how the media are actively participating in the normalization process. Let's look at the TWO dissenting opinions given in the article:
"It's wrong. God made us male and female for a reason," says Jenny Saint Jean, 15, a freshman at Fort Lauderdale High.
Karla Núñez, 16, agrees: "I don't go to those kind of parties.
Did anyone not see that coming? The first girl who disagrees is religious, so of course her opinion will be considered equally valid. And the second girl doesn't go to parties, which means she's no fun and her opinion doesn't matter either! Kiss on, bisecksuals! Kiss on!
"It's important to take [bisecksuality] as a serious identity. It's a myth that [bisecksuality] is a phase," counters California-based Denise Penn, president of BiNet USA, one of the oldest advocacy and network groups in the nation for [bisecksuals.] "Maybe these girls aren't faking it. Maybe `[bisecksual cheec'] gives them a way of exploring their [bisecksuality] without committing to it. They can say, `Oh, we're just playing.'"
From the looks of things, that's all anyone is ever doing. There's no such thing as a serious relationship. Everyone's just "playing" or "experimenting." They never have to commit to any one person or gender, because then they wouldn't have as much fun, and they wouldn't be able to explore their sexual diversity.
Penn says, it doesn't really matter who's faking and who's not. She thinks the entire issue conveys a larger message. "People like to categorize us, label us, so they can frame their thinking about us. But sexuality is so complex," she says. "Everyone is different."
That says a lot. This is an active effort to remove all labels of sexuality. After all, life is just a competition to see who can get laid more often. Commitment and restraint are archaic concepts that were used in the past to keep women and homosexuals in their place.
By now, acceptation of the different seems to have turned into fetish and stirn up more than just deep waters as the hip generation is catching on to the credo-potential of swinging both ways. Being able to choose your partners from either sexes -and note that it means any sexes- equals taking a stand: that of not taking a stand, but insisting on having the freedom of choice. Bisexuality as it is presented today seems to mean 'Look Ma'! I can do what I want!'
The New Bi-standers
The word of 95 is bi chic, but it is difficult to tell if the existence of the advertised social phenomenon is natural as the media are quick to credit the episode with the promotion of the open-minded mass-slogan: freedom of choice.
Is it really the naturally lurking bisexuality in humans that is coming out in the open these days so overwhelmingly that you can't open a magazine without reading a glossy special on it, or is the healthy process of finally learning to accept yet another subculture turning into a trend? By now, acceptation of the different seems to have turned into fetish and stirn up more than just deep waters as the hip generation is catching on to the credo-potential of swinging both ways. Being able to choose your partners from either sexes -and note that it means any sexes- equals taking a stand: that of not taking a stand, but insisting on having the freedom of choice. Bisexuality as it is presented today seems to mean 'Look Ma'! I can do what I want!'
"Being able to choose your partners from either sexes -note that it means any sexes- equals taking a stand: that of not taking a stand, but insisting on freedom of choice."
Celebrities are making revelations every day, and by now the fuss is so sizeable that one can't help but think what Majorie Garber, bi-cult author queen, has aptly pointed out: "Either bisexuality makes you a celebrity, or a remarkable number of celebrities are bisexual." Starlets such as rock star-wife Amanda de Cadenet and Curt Cobain's widow Courtney Love, well aware that all it takes to get the klieg lights on these days is a little girl-girl action, have perfected the ambiguous behaviour to such an extent that, without anything else to their credit, star status glues to their $1 tiara-essence partner look."
Ad whizzes got the message too: ambiguity sells. Icon-like corporation giants and lebensgefuhl-experts, led a mile-long by Versace and Dolce & Gabbana, run campaigns with hinting images, designers cultivate gender plays on the catwalk, and the hottest campus flicker of the moment is rompy Threesome, the jingle of which probably sums up the idea behind the new way of viewing life best: "One girl, two boys, three possibilities." Joining the club of instinctive geniuses of philosophy equals illustrating progressive thinking by putting the simple theory into practice that the next object of your admiration could just as well be a male as a female. Accepting the new love relativity thesis is a must for everyone interested in the sign of the times, and according to the well- informedness of cultic insider magazines, hardly any resistance is put up by the socially ambitious. Doing it or not doing it is not really the question here - agreeing to the possibility of the affair ever occurring is. The trend is flowering, celebrating the final awakening, but we have yet to decide whether the media are descriptive or rather activating their cogent prescriptive function.
American research shows that more and more women experiment within their sultry world these days, and an increasing number of members of university gay clubs are correcting their standpoints to be playing it bothways. Campuses seem to be the hot-bed of the trend, and branded in our brains we get newly established terms such as BUG (Bisexual Until Graduation), suggesting that the bi trip is as much a part of the campus experience as fetishizing Monty Python. Presented scientific evidence is always a winner due to the human psyche's longing for belonging, in fact it may even leave a debilitating 'Everybody's doing it, so I cannot be normal if I don't' aftertaste in the reader, only multiplying with every further news round-up reporting on the social stand.
A subcultural liberation turning into a trend may do its real fighters good by winning them an enormous bonus of sympathisers, but in this case the discussion over the bi-spirit entangles simply everybody from the shabby milkman to the Saturday night queenie as their congenital interest in their fellow underwear-shoppers is being scrutinised under a magnifying glass. The media- symposium on the new sexual norm even reaches philosophical heights as last month saw the invention of the term 'bi virgin', "a bisexual who has never had a homosexual experience." It is not easy to judge whether this term is a bliss, and if yes, to whom. It may imply, and this interpretation is the most logically deductive, the psychological slant that we all have the same-side-stray inclination buried somewhere deep down, thus the buzz-word symbolises an almost persuasive hint to release the spirit from the bottle. "The symposium reaches philosophical heights as last month saw the invention of the term 'bi virgin'." WHOOPEDY FUCKIN DOO!!
Some do, some don't, and some will try anything once. Promoted to overkill, the bi experience can get chic to the point that no one can feel complete without having had one. Psycho fumbling aside, hardly any serious harm goes with following this trend, but seeing an entire generation dancing to the two- chord tune of bored media whizzes is like catching Dad in the act of gluing on the fake beard on Christmas Eve at the age of four.