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queerbychoice) wrote2002-05-22 12:57 pm
queerbychoice) wrote2002-05-22 12:57 pm
Queer Baseball Players and Francesca Lia Block
Major League Baseball Player Comes Out as Heterosexual
Hmm. I see the potential for progress to be made.
The Out magazine editor's I'm-not-naming-names-but revelation annoyed me, though. I mean, how many major league baseball players can an Out magazine editor be hanging around with? How hard would it have been for a reporter to follow him around and watch for a major league baseball player to show up? That revelation was playing with fire.
In other news, I read Francesca Lia Block's Weetzie Bat recently to find out why so many people on my friends list grew up obsessed with it. I almost threw it across the room and refused to finish it after the very first page, when the main characters were introduced as being a beautiful skinny blonde popular girl who's dating the best-looking guy in the school, and her boy friend, the best-looking guy in the school. Who wants to read books about popular people? Upon hearing this description of them, I immediately lost all interest in hearing anything about their lives and dismissed them as abhorrent, thoroughly unpleasant people to be around.
The book did get better from there, when I forced myself to keep reading. The book does an excellent job of supporting extremely unconventional family structures and the idea of inventing one's own family structure to suit one's own needs, and I'm sure these revelations about the appeal of hitherto unimagined family structures must have really revolutionized a lot of young readers' lives in a wonderful way. And even the characters managed to become a little less abhorrent. Still, there's something thoroughly plastic and unreal about the whole thing that I definitely don't like at all.
Hmm. I see the potential for progress to be made.
The Out magazine editor's I'm-not-naming-names-but revelation annoyed me, though. I mean, how many major league baseball players can an Out magazine editor be hanging around with? How hard would it have been for a reporter to follow him around and watch for a major league baseball player to show up? That revelation was playing with fire.
In other news, I read Francesca Lia Block's Weetzie Bat recently to find out why so many people on my friends list grew up obsessed with it. I almost threw it across the room and refused to finish it after the very first page, when the main characters were introduced as being a beautiful skinny blonde popular girl who's dating the best-looking guy in the school, and her boy friend, the best-looking guy in the school. Who wants to read books about popular people? Upon hearing this description of them, I immediately lost all interest in hearing anything about their lives and dismissed them as abhorrent, thoroughly unpleasant people to be around.
The book did get better from there, when I forced myself to keep reading. The book does an excellent job of supporting extremely unconventional family structures and the idea of inventing one's own family structure to suit one's own needs, and I'm sure these revelations about the appeal of hitherto unimagined family structures must have really revolutionized a lot of young readers' lives in a wonderful way. And even the characters managed to become a little less abhorrent. Still, there's something thoroughly plastic and unreal about the whole thing that I definitely don't like at all.
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every gay/bi girl i know has told me that 99.99% of all gay/bi girls have said that their preference has been this way since birth, or since sex hormones started kicking in.
That's certainly not true. In surveys/polls of same-sex attracted persons, it has always been the case that a much greater percentage of same-sex attracted women perceive that they chose their preference in some way shape or form when compared to same-sex attracted men (who tend to perceive their attraction as inborn). I don't recall any specific numbers, but it's a signficant portion, if not a slim majority in some cases.
Anyways, if you are saying that you are sexually attracted to both guys and girls, it sounds like you are bisexual to me. Perhaps you've heard of the Kinsey scale. Your very basic description of your attractions would seem to place you at about a 1 or 2. The Klein Grid is a more complex way to self-describe sexual orientation that might help to think things through. Might want to look at that. How you perceive that you figured out your attractions is probably the best/only guide to figuring out a "cause," if that's what you are looking for. And what you do about your attractions is up to you.
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