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Tuesday, 1 November 2005 13:30![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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A few things we need to get straight:
1) There is a big difference between being bisexual and being a complete slut. A slut means you'll sleep with any*body*. Being bisexual means you're willing to consider sleeping with any *gender*. People are not equalled to gender. Thus, because bisexual doesn't mean that you'll sleep with anything human and/or mammalian. It doesn't mean you're a sexual wild person. It doesn't even mean you're all that sexual to begin with.
It just means that you can have sexual feelings for either gender. Period. Doesn't mean you'll have sexual feelings for anyone.
After all - take a look at ten of your coworkers of the opposite gender (if you're straight) or the same gender (if you're gay/lesbian). How many of them would you even want to think about naked, much less sleep with?
Being bisexual is also not *just* a phase. Nor is it just an experimentation. There are people who are genuinely bisexual, and stay that way their entire lives. Me, for instance. Yes, it is possible. No, I am not just a lesbian waiting to happen. No, I am not just experimenting with girls and will flee back once my heterosexual shame kicks in. No, I am not a slut. And no, I do not want to sleep with 99.99999 (ad infinitum) of the people on Planet Earth. In fact, that number would be more accurate in reverse to describe the number of people I *don't* want to sleep with at all. Ever. So that basically leaves my boyfriend, a few f-listers, and the entire casts of a few television shows.
2) Yes, anorexia and bulimia are serious eating disorders. People with them need treatment and have a mental illness. But eating disorders can also apply to compulsive overeaters. Therefore, a person who is fat may have a mental illness, instead of just being the gluttonous pig you obviously assume they are. People with compulsive overeating and problems with excessive weight are no less deserving of your understanding of them having a kind of disorder than people with anorexia or bulimia. Therefore, treating anorexics and bulimics as though they have genuine medical disorder and trying to find neurological causes for their diseases while just assuming all overweight people simply lack self control is really rather ignorant of you.
3) The average woman is a size 14, and somewhere around 5'5 (at least in America). Would it kill you to put up billboards and magazine pages to that effect? Because seriously - not the even models themselves are as tall, thin and leggy as you make them look.
4) The rule of thumb for weighing in on the abortion debate should be: No Uterus, No Opinion. 77% of abortion protesters are men. 100% will never get pregnant. In the words of Jubal Early: Does that seem right to you?. I realize some people will disagree with me on this, but see above: No Uterus, No Opinion.
5) I apologize for Florida and for all red states for their role in putting Bush in office. I voted for Nader, but still. Florida is my state and on their behalf I'm really sorry. Especially for the re-election. We were drunk when we voted. Yes. All of us. The entire state. While voting. I'll understand if you feel the need to come down here in 2008 and say "No vote for you! Go to back of line!". Next time, we promise to vote for someone less chimpanzee like instead of someone who pretty much throws bombs like monkeys throw their own poo. Again, we're really sorry. We were drunk and Kerry was being kind of a bitch. We should've known better, but we didn't. Forgive us?
1) There is a big difference between being bisexual and being a complete slut. A slut means you'll sleep with any*body*. Being bisexual means you're willing to consider sleeping with any *gender*. People are not equalled to gender. Thus, because bisexual doesn't mean that you'll sleep with anything human and/or mammalian. It doesn't mean you're a sexual wild person. It doesn't even mean you're all that sexual to begin with.
It just means that you can have sexual feelings for either gender. Period. Doesn't mean you'll have sexual feelings for anyone.
After all - take a look at ten of your coworkers of the opposite gender (if you're straight) or the same gender (if you're gay/lesbian). How many of them would you even want to think about naked, much less sleep with?
Being bisexual is also not *just* a phase. Nor is it just an experimentation. There are people who are genuinely bisexual, and stay that way their entire lives. Me, for instance. Yes, it is possible. No, I am not just a lesbian waiting to happen. No, I am not just experimenting with girls and will flee back once my heterosexual shame kicks in. No, I am not a slut. And no, I do not want to sleep with 99.99999 (ad infinitum) of the people on Planet Earth. In fact, that number would be more accurate in reverse to describe the number of people I *don't* want to sleep with at all. Ever. So that basically leaves my boyfriend, a few f-listers, and the entire casts of a few television shows.
2) Yes, anorexia and bulimia are serious eating disorders. People with them need treatment and have a mental illness. But eating disorders can also apply to compulsive overeaters. Therefore, a person who is fat may have a mental illness, instead of just being the gluttonous pig you obviously assume they are. People with compulsive overeating and problems with excessive weight are no less deserving of your understanding of them having a kind of disorder than people with anorexia or bulimia. Therefore, treating anorexics and bulimics as though they have genuine medical disorder and trying to find neurological causes for their diseases while just assuming all overweight people simply lack self control is really rather ignorant of you.
3) The average woman is a size 14, and somewhere around 5'5 (at least in America). Would it kill you to put up billboards and magazine pages to that effect? Because seriously - not the even models themselves are as tall, thin and leggy as you make them look.
4) The rule of thumb for weighing in on the abortion debate should be: No Uterus, No Opinion. 77% of abortion protesters are men. 100% will never get pregnant. In the words of Jubal Early: Does that seem right to you?. I realize some people will disagree with me on this, but see above: No Uterus, No Opinion.
5) I apologize for Florida and for all red states for their role in putting Bush in office. I voted for Nader, but still. Florida is my state and on their behalf I'm really sorry. Especially for the re-election. We were drunk when we voted. Yes. All of us. The entire state. While voting. I'll understand if you feel the need to come down here in 2008 and say "No vote for you! Go to back of line!". Next time, we promise to vote for someone less chimpanzee like instead of someone who pretty much throws bombs like monkeys throw their own poo. Again, we're really sorry. We were drunk and Kerry was being kind of a bitch. We should've known better, but we didn't. Forgive us?
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Date: 1 Nov 2005 22:22 (UTC)Thank you, thank you! And also, get those "body fat" charts fixed. I'm 5'3" but I carry my weight well. So well that in fact people (including doctors and nurses) guess me to be 20 - 30 lbs less than what I weigh. This means that if I was to be at my "ideal weight" I would look anorexic. Some people have large frames, some small. Let's get it together and stop trying to make all of the world a bunch of skeletal wraiths.
4) The rule of thumb for weighing in on the abortion debate should be: No Uterus, No Opinion. 77% of abortion protesters are men. 100% will never get pregnant. In the words of Jubal Early: Does that seem right to you?. I realize some people will disagree with me on this, but see above: No Uterus, No Opinion. I agree whole heartedly except in the case of married couples. . . and only if the guy is really in for the long haul 50/50. Because if he's going to be against it, he'd better damn well be willing to wake up at night and fix a bottle and change some diapers.
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Date: 2 Nov 2005 00:22 (UTC)I hate those. Because thirty pounds over your "ideal weight" is obese. Dude! Twenty pounds is just overweight, but thirty is obese?
I don't really trust medical science on issues like these because so much relies on "medical opinion" and I don't like to have my health dictated to me by anything including the word "opinion".
I agree whole heartedly except in the case of married couples. . . and only if the guy is really in for the long haul 50/50. Because if he's going to be against it, he'd better damn well be willing to wake up at night and fix a bottle and change some diapers.
On principal I think I agree, because it would be an agreement and a contract - thus a *choice* on the part of the woman - to keep the baby and hold the man to it. If a married couple sat down, talked about it, maybe even inserted it into a prenuptual agreement.
But I don't agree with a married man automatically having more rights to his wife's body when there *isn't* an agreement than an unmarried man. The only way I could agreeing with it is if a wife had the right to force her husband to get sterilized when she didn't want to have kids or had the right to compel him to give up sperm if she did and he didn't want kids.
But that's about marriage rights, not abortion, I think.
- Meg