I really don't get the "being bi doesn't exist" attitude. As the one guy there said "If you suck dick you're gay" well....no. It's not black and white like that for everyone.
Yeah, those comments are so made of fail. I can never quite understand why a community that gets marginalized has absolutely no problem marginalizing others. I see this in relation to the trans community all the effing time too.
It sucks that bisexual people have to be ostracized by both the gay and straight community. WTF people? Can we just let people do what they wanna do and choose the labels they want to use?
It's a sad commentary on our own community when the srt8 press runs a warm and positive story with no negative reactions while (some) members of the queer community react with knee-jerk biphobia.
which BTW is one of the reasons some people are citing to show that he must be gay, since we ALL know that ALL pansexual and fluid people are always ugly (*facepalm*)
Mind you, it's quite heartening that there were two or three idiotic comments about no-one being bi, followed by lots and lots of people ripping the shit (but in a civilised way) out of the idiots.
yes you are correct, there are now, though we are a little confused by Towleroad's Comments policy since quite a few people (including us) wrote in but no one seems to see their comments on there
sadly by accident have found the story on other well know LGBT Sites
and the SAME problem is happening there. I'd understand hate-fueled remarks on say Mormons-R-Us or Dr. D's I-H8-Your-Family site, but why in our own community?
And you know the same thing happened last year when Micah Kellner, also an out bisexual won a NY State Assembly Seat with the active support of the Victory Fund. Instead of LGBT people rejoicing that another member of "our tribe" had come into office promising to work for same-sex marriages and other issues of importance to our community, the
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Towleroad appears to display a fixed number of comments, and not provide any links to see the rest. When I posted a comment, I seemed to get the "last" page of comments, but there are no links on the original article to view them.
And why is this happening? Because people don't stop for two minutes and think about what they're saying, especially on the largely anonymous medium of the internet. People seem unable, or unwilling, to put themselves in someone else's shoes, or to admit that what they know of the world is not necessarily all there is to it.
You will always find bigots, even (or perhaps, ironically, especially) in communities that have suffered from bigotry. And the bigots are always the most vocal ones.
Oh, that, and people that actually have a relatively moderate opinion (but are possibly ill-informed) find it easier to post a snarky comment than something meaningful. And then, when people have a go at them, they come back and say "stop yelling at me! You've taken it all the wrong way! I'm no hater", and seem shocked why people who don't know them took their two-line sarcastic quip (in text, so missing all the tonal nuances that are so important in English) in the wrong light.
Yes, I'll make sarcastic comments with my friends, because they have the context of knowing me and so will interpret it as I meant it, but it's foolish to think that you can do the same on the internet and not be considered an idiot.
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Or alternatively, everyone who thinks they're straight is just deluding themselves and will be gay as soon as the right person comes along.
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It sucks that bisexual people have to be ostracized by both the gay and straight community. WTF people? Can we just let people do what they wanna do and choose the labels they want to use?
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which BTW is one of the reasons some people are citing to show that he must be gay, since we ALL know that ALL pansexual and fluid people are always ugly (*facepalm*)
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sadly by accident have found the story on other well know LGBT Sites
http://www.queerty.com/newark-delaware-city-councilman-comes-out-though-youd-know-that-if-you-were-on-facebook-20090212/
and the SAME problem is happening there. I'd understand hate-fueled remarks on say Mormons-R-Us or Dr. D's I-H8-Your-Family site, but why in our own community?
And you know the same thing happened last year when Micah Kellner, also an out bisexual won a NY State Assembly Seat with the active support of the Victory Fund. Instead of LGBT people rejoicing that another member of "our tribe" had come into office promising to work for same-sex marriages and other issues of importance to our community, the ( ... )
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And why is this happening? Because people don't stop for two minutes and think about what they're saying, especially on the largely anonymous medium of the internet. People seem unable, or unwilling, to put themselves in someone else's shoes, or to admit that what they know of the world is not necessarily all there is to it.
You will always find bigots, even (or perhaps, ironically, especially) in communities that have suffered from bigotry. And the bigots are always the most vocal ones.
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Yes, I'll make sarcastic comments with my friends, because they have the context of knowing me and so will interpret it as I meant it, but it's foolish to think that you can do the same on the internet and not be considered an idiot.
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