Re: Homosexuality: male & female

Yousuf Khan (ykhan@achilles.net)
Sun, 15 Sep 1996 15:58:28 GMT

On Sat, 14 Sep 1996 18:25:30 -0800, Stephen Barnard <steve@megafauna.com>
wrote:

>The very lovely and talented Lars Eigner said:

>>One of the wierdest stories I've heard about justifying bisexuality is
>>based on this positional argument. If a man enters another man, then the

[snip]

>>These are all ways to avoid being labled homosexual or bisexual. They are
>>excuses in other words.

No-no, Stephen, it wasn't Lars who said that, it was I. Lars was quoting
me.

>And then, in respose to Yousuf Khan, who wrote:
>>
>> >Yes, but doesn't it just go to show how far off people are in their
>> >definitions of what is homosexual and what is heterosexual behaviour?
>>

Yes, now you identified the quoter right.

>the ever more lovely and talented Lars wrote:

>> This impression comes from looking at these cultures through our
>> own biases. To them, that the partners have genitals of the same

[snip]

>I would say that calling something "weird" and making "excuses" shows a
>fair degree of bias. Perhaps the very lovely and talented Lars believes
>that everyone else's opinions are due to "bias" but that his own
>opinions are cold, hard fact.

> Steve Barnard

Again, it was I who said "wierd" and "excuses". Lars was the one saying,
that's just our biases. This misunderstanding wouldn't have happened if you
identified the initial quote right.

Yousuf Khan

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