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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:24am on 2014-05-14

"It's one of the great blessings of my very unorthodox childhood that I wasn't ever asked to define myself as any one thing at any point. I was just allowed to be me, growing and changing at every moment." -- iO Tillett Wright, in a December 2012 TEDxWomen talk that is interesting for much more than this quote. (~ 18 minutes)

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posted by [personal profile] nancylebov at 02:08pm on 2014-05-14
Thanks very much.
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posted by [personal profile] siderea at 12:32am on 2014-05-15
Am I the only person made uncomfortable by that video's scrupulous avoidance of the word "bisexual"?
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posted by [identity profile] en-ki.livejournal.com at 01:02am on 2014-05-15
I hate that word and I'm glad she acknowledges my existence without using it. Practically its only use is to define what I am being discriminated against for.

My instinctive reaction: it's not well-defined: if we map gayness to the interval [0, 1] (which is absurd to begin with), which subset is "bisexual"? (0, 1)? [0.5, 0.5]? If I'm 0.5 by number of partners but 0.0 by time in LTRs, do I get to pick?

Response I expect if I voice that reaction: smug anti-nerd nerds (I'm looking at you, lj user=xkcd) talking about how not everything is mathematically precise, man, take off your fedora and be a human being.

...so the human question is: "is this person possibly interested in me/my partner/this other person?" and the answer is "try asking/try asking/none of your damn business", no matter what my identity is. And the other, uglier human question is "ew, you're icky!", to which my answer is "that's not a question, go fuck yourself".

Hope this helps.
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posted by [identity profile] en-ki.livejournal.com at 01:05am on 2014-05-15
(and, of course, part of "go fuck yourself" is to say "yes, I am this category you say is icky and/or doesn't exist. Look at me. Look at me!" But that doesn't mean I think the category is any good.)
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posted by [personal profile] gale_storm at 12:38pm on 2014-05-17
Good answer, really is! Smugness really needs to shrivel up and die already.
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