I am not a sea wall. You will not save Holland by putting your finger in my belly button.

[seiberwing]

So I'm on the Feminist Club mailing list for some unidentifiable reason, and I got this in my Inbox today.

XXXXXX spent three months over the

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[oml404]

I the only reason I even bother to refer to myself as gay is that it's quicker and easier than saying 'I'm only really attracted to men at the moment but I have been attracted to women in the past and I was married that one time but at the minute it's all about the cock.' Saying I'm gay/queer/etc is just so much less effort than going into the whole saga.

I don't self-identify as gay particularly, I have little enough interest in the notion of gay culture and the gay scene that it isn't terribly relevant to me and I'm chary of the idea of slapping labels on myself. If it wasn't more or less necessary to do the gay scene in order to get laid I probably wouldn't bother at all.

Like you I think I have nothing to really add to the peculiar discipline of gay studies. My life has been free from homophobia for the most part and any angst my sexuality has caused me has been entirely personal and of no interest to the wider world at large. I've always been confused and slightly weirded out by gay people who seem to put their sexuality at the centre of their lives. It always gives me the uncomfortable impression that taking it up the arse means you have to join some kind of weird cult.

I'd much rather just get on with the serious business of acquiring every zombie movie ever made and writing horrible fictions.

[seiberwing]

I'll take bisexual, if only because people'd look at me funny if I said lesbian and then perved on BW Megatron's voice. Gave out a minilecture about boxes and labels when someone asked if I was gay at work, although in retrospect it might not have been the best of ideas.

It always gives me the uncomfortable impression that taking it up the arse means you have to join some kind of weird cult.

Oddly enough, that was the impression I got at the GLBTQWTFOMG Alliance meetings that I went to. Probably half of why I stopped going.

[koilungfish]

I'm chary of the idea of slapping labels on myself
I have no idea why, but I now have a mental image of two postman covering you with yellow sticky-notes.

[seiberwing]

Your icon amuses me.