My father is still so perplexed by Angel. He just... he won't even discuss her as anything but "the guy in the Santa outfit."
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It's time for me to say nighties...fare thee well, all you pretty people! Extra kisses for Nia's avatar. 'Night!
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Emcee, lots of people do that when confronted with ideas.
Ellie, I agree. There is something theoretically nice about the multiple-partner relationship, but I wouldn't be comfortable with someone I loved sleeping with someone else... and how does it work? Are you in love with all, none or some of them?
If it works for him, I say let him go for it. But I think I'd be too confused.
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night ellie
Theatrebabe, I think what Anthony meant is that he's attracted to both men and women, though more to men. He doesn't like to call himself gay because he defines that as liking men exclusively, and maybe he doesn't like bisexual because it implies an equal attraction. Queer is loose enough to encompass who he feels he is.
His mind is the most tightly-closed door I've ever seen, nia.
(gah, edit! That totally made it look like I was talking about Anthony!)
And I think it's perfectly possible to be in love with more than one person, though I don't think I could ever live in an arrangement like that.
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wait,who's mind is a tightly closed door?
that makes sense Chloe
I edited, but my father, theatrebabe.
Good night Ellie
I think in order for it to work all parties have to be equally committed, ie all in love with each other. admittedly not a subject I understand.
Well I mean, like you say, a gay guy saying it...why would they think of themselves as bad? That's total self loathing. : P Lol I doubt someone is that bad like that...Being a different sexuality than others and insulting yourself so much...
Goodnight, Ellie!
I don't think it's self-loathing, so much as double standard, jeanclaude.
ETA - is it generally accepted that bisexuality implies equal attraction?
I can't imagen what my father would think about Angel...
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In love with multiple people? Emcee, elaborate. I can't really imagine this, personally.
Jean, not so long as you mean it in a passing way that's unconnected to identity.
I can't seem to live with even one person (I lived with a guy for a long time, but he moved out a while ago) - maybe that's why the idea of a "commune" seems appealing from a distance. But of course it's so fraught with possible emotional complications that I can't imagine too many being able to cope with it.
I can't imagine being in the situation myself, at all. But I think it's possible. Men who are bisexual and married, for example. If they are legitimately bisexual (more than one that I have in mind - one who just got married and is rumoured to be gay gay GAY) - then I think they can be in love with whoever they're married to, as well as someone of the same gender. Maybe that's just me being idealistic, though. Or, even if the second of the two to which I refer is actually gay - I think he can still be in love with his new wife... just perhaps in a non-sexual way.
I don't care if you want to be gay, bi, green, or blue. If you're an asshole, you're an asshole and I will not like you.
But sometimes when a person is an ass and gay, I don't say anything...cause they always bring in the homophobe card.
So, this really has nothing to add...
Yeah, an asshole is an asshole no what they are..it's just how they argue about it that differs.
Nope bisexual is generally more of a "sliding scale" where you are attracted to one sex but still can be peaked by the other, in different levels for different people.
I also think that on some levels love and sexual attraction do not always completely mesh, possibly the case with your examples Em.
Being in a multi=partner relationship though would seem to imply equal attraction.
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do u have to be in love w/ all of them?cause it's definetly possible to have a "crush" on more than 1 person at a time
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I know what you are saying, Emcee, and I think it's a very complicated issue but that said person could love one sexually and another in a not necessarily nonsexual, but non-sex based way... sorry, I'm tired and not making sense.
But what I really meant to ask was if anyone thinks you could have three or four people all living and sleeping together and have them all be in love with each other as relationship partners and sexually and have them all be ok with that.
That's what I figured, Penguin. And I guess you can't really measure attraction at all. There was that wacky study recently that tried to, though. :-/
And exactly; love doesn't always equal sexual attraction.
ETA - no, that made sense.
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also,i think that everyone is bisexual to same degree,no one is truly completly straight,anyone agree?
Oh I don't know, Thenardier. If it's clear you think the person is an ass because he's an ass, and not because he's gay, then it should be okay. (That sounded weird.)
Emcee, you're sounding like one of those blind item gossip things and you've got me all curious now.
ETA: god, I'm so behind!
Updated On: 8/25/05 at 11:31 PM
I can PM and tell you; I just don't like to post it. It's a pretty out-and-about rumour, anyway. Sorry for sounding so cryptic... I just, even in a thread that I doubt many read, don't want to blurt it out.
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