From: orc@amber.uucp (David Parsons)
Newsgroups: soc.motss,soc.bi
Subject: Re: National Coming Out Day
Date: 13 Oct 92 21:46:15 GMT
Organization: Department of Catastrophes

In article <26858@castle.ed.ac.uk> mlloyd@castle.ed.ac.uk (M Lloyd) attempts to dispell a bad mood:
|In article <1992Oct12.145322.26421@midway.uchicago.edu> orc@sybase.com writes:
|>   Plus there's the teeny-tiny trouble that I'm fighting to keep myself
|>above a Kinsey 0 :-(
|Why David, life must be tough when it gets so full of wonderful women
|that you feel your empirical Kinsey estimate slipping!  *smile*
|As has been pointed out plenty of times before, empirical Kinsey
|numbers ain't worth a damn (ask any of the monogamous soc.bi types) -
|indeed, haven't you said as much?  Face it - we all know you're bi
|(I think I can claim *proof*positive* of that fact!) so don't
|fight too hard.  You've said before that the majority of your
|crushes are on women (I think you said all, but there is evidence
|that's not quite the truth).

   Yes, there is that.  My internal bias tends to slide around a bit,
pushing up to about 50/50 attraction when I'm in a particularly good
mood and pushing down to about 0/100 attraction when I'm in a bad
mood.  Unfortunately, I'm in a bad mood, for various reasons (most
recent being, and this is a rant, THAT MY APARTMENT WAS BROKEN INTO
AND SOME SLIMEMOLD FROM HELL TOOK ALL OF MY CDS!!!!  (which were not
insured, thankyouverymuch, but it wouldn't matter because so many of
them are out of print)) and so I find that I'm only noticing women
and I don't like feeling monosexual.


|However, you've also made clear
|that you have a very healthy attitude to crushes - they are
|abberations, caused by Goddess-knows-what, which you have the good
|sense to keep somewhat separate from your sex-life.

   Er.  "Try" to keep separate from my sex-life.  I'll not discuss
some of the unpleasant side-effects that can come when you become
fond of someone you've got a crush on, or when you become fond of
someone who you've slept with and have a crush on.

   Knowing that they're an aberration isn't sufficient information
to keep from having 'em and getting them mixed up with everything
else.  And considering that my reaction to nonsexual stress is to
lose my sex drive starting with male attraction, and that my reaction
to sexual stress is to become rather, umm, obsessively horny, it
leads to a case where my behavior, aside from certain long-haired
redheads, looks distressingly like a teenage heterosexual who's
just realized that you *can fit tab A into slot B.


|Imagine - Orc trying to claim he's not bi enough!  Next it'll
|be Elf, claiming he's a closet monogamy freak ...

   I'll save that post for posterity...


|Mike, who still can't get a stable machine for posting from.

   I'm still amazed.  They took the amp (Mark Levinson #29 - *whimper*),
all 200 CD's (incoherent *sob*), my ancient ReVox CD player, and about
$500 in change, but they left the computer and the bicycle, on the other
hand, which would be good except I've hidden them away from everyone
so *they won't become contributions to the free market.

   I hope weasels eat their eyes and genitals out.


   david parsons, annoyed but _still_ liberal