{"id":274,"date":"2010-06-30T09:45:03","date_gmt":"2010-06-30T09:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adjectivemarcus.livejournal.com\/479161.html"},"modified":"2010-06-30T09:45:03","modified_gmt":"2010-06-30T09:45:03","slug":"sudden-thought-apropos-of-nothing-specific-elsewhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/2010\/06\/sudden-thought-apropos-of-nothing-specific-elsewhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudden thought (apropos of nothing specific elsewhere)"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you ask 50 gay men what being gay means to them, you’ll get 50 different answers. This then shows the diversity of the community, the way that ‘being gay’ is a personal pride, et cetera.<\/p>\n

If you ask 50 bisexuals what being bisexual means to them, you’ll get 50 answers too. But apparently that’s because bisexuality is confusing and no-one agrees what it means. What’s going on here?<\/p>\n

We’re being sold a narrative. “Bisexuals are confused”, “Bisexuals can’t make up their minds.”<\/p>\n

If you asked 50 people what biochemistry is then the consensus will be ‘some sort of cross between biology and chemistry’.
Ask them what a cat is and the majority won’t say “a small carnivorous mammal domesticated and kept as a pet”, because that’d sound glib. Instead they’ll each talk about what a cat is to them<\/i>. Companion, menace, cuteness, kitten, ratcatcher, captioned on the internet.<\/p>\n

That doesn’t mean no-one agrees what the word “cat” means. They think it’s obvious what it means, and skip straight to the interpretation.<\/p>\n

The same thing goes for identities. We don’t repeat the dictionary definition back because we assume the person asking is familiar with that.<\/p>\n

Bisexuals aren’t confused, except as to why you’re asking…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you ask 50 gay men what being gay means to them, you’ll get 50 different answers. This then shows the diversity of the community, the way that ‘being gay’ is a personal pride, et cetera.If you ask 50 bisexuals what being bisexual means to them, you’…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":1211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[246,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bibloggers","category-bisexual"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}