Andy Mientus Interview: Very Revealing — Page 8

You keep at it by contributing "days later." If you want to leave it at that, do not post anymore on the subject and it will predictably fade away. You continuing to pop up with new examples of your terrifying, closed-minded ignorance is just fanning the flames.

I would also add that explaining yourself is simply voicing an opinion; it's not backing up or substantiating that claim. It would be no different if someone came on here and ignorantly claimed that plays are a superior art form to musicals. They be lambasted for the opinion, and rightfully so, but they would also be expected to provide some kind of evidence supporting their viewpoint. That is how we can avoid these circular "...because I said so!" discussions.

Do you have any facts to back up your bigoted viewpoint?

I basically stopped caring about this subject a long time ago which is why i haven't really talked about the topic in sooo long and you guys continue! I have nothing else to say! I don't know what you guys want me to say!

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We've been keeping at it because you continue to post here without acknowledging most of the things posted here that challenge you.

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Philly, I get the feeling you know you are wrong but you probably feel like you are getting ganged up on by the posters so you are sticking with your preposterous mentality. It's okay to admit you are wrong. We won't be angry, in fact, it's the best thing you can do at this point. I know you are smarter than this.

I think you're being far too kind.

Reflecting on some of the things said here and be interesting to hear the female side of bi-sexuality.
As I mentioned earlier, the only male bi-sexuals that I have know became homosexuals when that need arose then went back to being heterosexuals but they always[almost] did it without their female partners' knowledge--chop and change/opportunity/prison-who knows the circumstances BUT, many heterosexual males turn to homosexuality [however briefly] in later years due to less complications in 'doing the deed'if the committed to female partner is no longer willing.

"became"....?

That's not the right description for a bi. If someone witnesses a bi having affairs either way, that just means they're manifesting the desire in binary--because that's the only way to do it. Are you saying a bisexual doesn't exist unless they have sex with a male and female at the exact same time? That's what your argument sounds like.

That's like saying a biracial person "becomes black" when hanging out with a group of black friends and "becomes white" when going to work in a white workplace. That's stupid. A biracial person is always biracial; but they'll manifest behavior in a given situation, while that internal identity never actually changes. Sure, many biracial people happen to identify more with one racial subculture than the other. Sexual attraction is the same way. Just because one chooses a permanent partner doesn't mean the sexuality changes--that just means (supposed) MONOGAMY. It's called fidelity. Choosing that one person of a particular sex doesn't negate attraction to all others.

The situations (sweetlips) experienced could be a classic Brokeback Mountain thing.

I get the feeling so many people have abused the term bisexual that its true meaning has been so diluted and people who do feel significant sexual attraction to both are just left in the dust.

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Damn Philly, I sure hope you're cute, at least.

Philly, you keep responding, but not actually responding to the questions and ideas posed for you, which is why people are still posting to you. You say you don’t know what everyone wants you to say, so I will make it easy for you and ask you these direct things to respond to:

1. Have you read any of the articles that people have posted on here? If so, what did you think of them? If not, how can you continue to argue your own side if you refuse to read any research on the subject and can’t back your own side up with more than just your limited experiences?

2. Have you read the testimonials from the bisexual members here who have posted? If so, what do you think of the things they said?

3. Have you considered that just because you can’t understand something about someone (or a group of people) and you haven’t seen it in your own life, it doesn’t make it any less of a reality?

4. Are you seeing any parallels between the arguments you are making (and how you are making them) and those who deny that homosexuality (not just bisexuality) is real? It’s equivalent to someone saying that they don’t know anyone who is “truly” gay, so homosexuality must not be a real thing.

5. You say this is just your “opinion.” But, can you understand that an opinion is view or belief on something and saying that bisexuality is not real and there is no one who is attracted to both genders is not an opinion – it’s denying that something exists, a denial of facts that have been laid out for you with research and personal testimonials to back it up? It’s like saying that, because you have never been to Paris and haven’t seen it for yourself, the Eiffel Tower isn’t real. Despite the fact that millions of others have seen it, experienced it, and there is documentation of its existence throughout history to the present, someone insists that the Eiffel Tower doesn’t exist because they haven’t seen it themselves – that’s not an opinion, it’s just ignorance and a denial of truth.

I fear this is futile, but I certainly hope that (and this is the only reason I – and I suspect many of the others – continue to respond), somehow, some of these thoughts might actually stick somewhere in your mind and, if not now, in the future you may be more open to giving these thoughts a little more consideration and understanding.

Brava!

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I don't know, that's asking Philly to respond with more than "hahaha (emoticon)"

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A lot of great efforts at providing useful information and education have been made here. But i think the last half-dozen or so replies have made it clear that phillypinto's medical condition of cranio-rectal insertion is a quite deliberate choice and not one that he suffers from or wants to cure. It appears that our initial presumptions of good will marred by ignorance due simply to young age and inexperience were overly optimistic. Ignorance can be cured with information, but philly's chosen medical condition cannot. Thanks all for trying.