Bitch, please
Apr. 15th, 2004 01:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
valarltdAunt Flo has arrived, so I am on the CrankyTrain.
OK, listen up folks:
1) Even if the gay population of the US is only 3% (as i have seen some estimates) that's NINE MILLION PEOPLE NINE. MILLION. PEOPLE. 9,000,000. So hate mongers can take their "isolate and execute these rabid animals" attitude and stuff it in their little brown shirt.
2) "Whose going to be the next Student Government Association President?" should never have been approved for posting. Not on ANY college campus. "Who's" or "Who will" Sweet St. Jean-Baptiste de La Salle: Pray for us and your poor school! Because apparently your English depatment all went on Sabbatical.
3) Only 24% of American households are children living with both parents. Only 34% of American households have children under the age of 18 to begin with! Hello, Baby Boomers are still the largest single demographic, and they are empty-nesting! 8 million of those other 10 million kids live with their mother. Given the current divorce rate, I would say we aren't doing too badly.
4) At the end of the day, fandom is still just about a media commodity. Don't take yourself too seriously.
5) Why can't every fast food joint serve fries as good as Ralley's? they are always hot, nicely thick and very tasty. They are never cold and limp. They are crisp and when you bite them, nice hot potato gooshes over your tongue.
6) Why did that last entry sound obscene?
7) Why in the name of the Four Cold Hells and the Five Hot Ones does Tylenol take so fraggin' long to work!
8) I want the 144K -156K virus laden spam in my junkmail box to FEWKIN WELL STOP! 10 of those is ridiculous.
OK, listen up folks:
1) Even if the gay population of the US is only 3% (as i have seen some estimates) that's NINE MILLION PEOPLE NINE. MILLION. PEOPLE. 9,000,000. So hate mongers can take their "isolate and execute these rabid animals" attitude and stuff it in their little brown shirt.
2) "Whose going to be the next Student Government Association President?" should never have been approved for posting. Not on ANY college campus. "Who's" or "Who will" Sweet St. Jean-Baptiste de La Salle: Pray for us and your poor school! Because apparently your English depatment all went on Sabbatical.
3) Only 24% of American households are children living with both parents. Only 34% of American households have children under the age of 18 to begin with! Hello, Baby Boomers are still the largest single demographic, and they are empty-nesting! 8 million of those other 10 million kids live with their mother. Given the current divorce rate, I would say we aren't doing too badly.
4) At the end of the day, fandom is still just about a media commodity. Don't take yourself too seriously.
5) Why can't every fast food joint serve fries as good as Ralley's? they are always hot, nicely thick and very tasty. They are never cold and limp. They are crisp and when you bite them, nice hot potato gooshes over your tongue.
6) Why did that last entry sound obscene?
7) Why in the name of the Four Cold Hells and the Five Hot Ones does Tylenol take so fraggin' long to work!
8) I want the 144K -156K virus laden spam in my junkmail box to FEWKIN WELL STOP! 10 of those is ridiculous.
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Date: 2004-04-19 05:23 am (UTC)It is, of course, closer to 30% than even the 10% you typically see bandied about, if you read the source material (Kinsey's two landmark human-sexuality studies -- yes, they're dated, but every single subsequent study has had an agenda of either proving or disproving the Kinsey numbers and is thus suspect, and at least one of the more respected follow-ups, Shere Hite's, has added credence to Kinsey's findings) carefully.
Yes, I'm counting the people who are attracted to/have been involved with persons of the opposite gender as well as their own. The hate-mongers certainly include anybody who so much as leans "that way," and bi-phobia has no place on the pro-equal-rights side.
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Date: 2004-04-19 05:51 am (UTC)The thing is, we bi folk don't identify as gay, and many of us (like me) "pass for straight" (the 4 kids and husband are a dead giveaway). The haters don't see it that way, but there is still some annoyance at the idea that "we're gay and just don't know it."
I run on the idea that only about 3% are actively identifying as gay, about 90% are bisexual to some degree even if it's just a "She's so hot" moment. And the other 6% are so obnoxiously het they squeak.
My husband falls into the "Had a couple of gay night-dreams" level of bisexuality, which is a Kinsey 0.5. I, OTOH, am closer to a 2.5. I'd be a 3 if i was single.
I thought Shere Hite had been thoroughly discredited for bad methodology. I have her books, and although they are anecdotally intersting, even i know you keep the surveys consistant.