[LMB] OT: gender and brains

[Anita]

On Nov 17, 2007 7:19 AM, Elizabeth Holden <azurite at rogers.com> wrote:

>
> Yes. I've never been sure what the solution is: I don't want to meet
> people saying, "Hi! I'm
> bisexual!" but I don't want it hidden, either.  Certainly with a large
> number of bi people I've
> known (and I've known a lot of them), most people who know them don't know
> their sexual
> orientation.  Not that people should care, but it isn't that they should
> fail to care, either.
>

My friends know for two reasons 1) I have yet to have a long term primary
relationship but they know I've gone out officially with both a man and a
women, 2) we have as a group a disproportionate number of bis and we are
fairly open about these things.


>
> But it adds to the invisibility factor.  And frustrates me when people
> think it's rare or unlikely
> for someone to be bi, or when it's disregarded as a category, or even
> (commonly enough!)
> completely dismissed as a possibility. (As in: "No one is really bi,
> they're just in denial.")
>
> Yes. Mum told me it was better to be in a relationship with a man when I
came out to her.

Anita