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Re: Homosexuality: male & female
Stephen Barnard (steve@megafauna.com)
Sun, 15 Sep 1996 09:53:26 -0800
Yousuf Khan wrote:
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> On Sat, 14 Sep 1996 18:25:30 -0800, Stephen Barnard <steve@megafauna.com>
> wrote:
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> >The very lovely and talented Lars Eigner said:
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> >>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
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> [snip]
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> >>These are all ways to avoid being labled homosexual or bisexual. They are
> >>excuses in other words.
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> No-no, Stephen, it wasn't Lars who said that, it was I. Lars was quoting
> me.
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> >And then, in respose to Yousuf Khan, who wrote:
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> >> >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?
> >>
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> Yes, now you identified the quoter right.
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> >the ever more lovely and talented Lars wrote:
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> >> This impression comes from looking at these cultures through our
> >> own biases. To them, that the partners have genitals of the same
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> [snip]
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> >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.
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> > Steve Barnard
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> 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
Ooops! My mistake. Sorry, Lars. Never mind!
Steve Barnard
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