"Bisexual and gay" O RLY?

[taimatsu]

Dear Livejournal,

Please help me enumerate the multifarious ways that this article is made of wrong. My brain has shut down in horror.

Comments

[bethanthepurple.livejournal.com]

The lady? That was me til I turned 19. I cried he first time I realised I fancied a boy.

[syllopsium.livejournal.com]

At extreme risk of being stereotypical and ageist - not everyone knows what they want at age 19 - I certainly didn't. She was 37..

[bethanthepurple.livejournal.com]

I think that if I hadn't fancied a boy at that age, I would have remained a bigot until I did. A good sobering thought to keep around to smack some humility into me when needed.

[syllopsium.livejournal.com]

We're not allowed to know what would have been if we made different choices.

I find continuing bigotry slightly surprising and would normally expect that unless you live in a lesbian ghetto, it's difficult to avoid exposure to different lifestyles and viewpoints if you are even vaguely scene.

There's also (hopefully) the point where people start judging both their own and other viewpoints and discover quite how many are flawed and self serving.

Even the straight community gets exposed to sufficient diversity for people to note life might consist of shades of grey rather than primary colours.

[friend-of-tofu.livejournal.com]

Something similar (although with fewer tears and more cursing) happened to me at about 15 and a half. But I had never run around claiming that bisexuals were wicked traitors/confused/wrong, so no embarrassing retractions were necessary.

At any rate, the article seems, overall, to be reasonably decent press for the B. There are points of criticism, but from such a source, I expected far worse.