1326It’s a spectrum, and it should be treated like one.
Personal Experience Time! From, Manasvi.
So today, one of my classmates called me bisexual because I was really flirty and loose around both guys and girls and I’d pretend to grope them and just be really comfortable around anyone no matter what. He said that since I didn’t have a problem with girls touching me and that I didn’t have a problem touching girls that I was bisexual.
First of all, I don’t agree. I’m not sexually attracted to girls. I just hate boundaries. I hate thinking that okay, I fantasize about guys, so I have to be restricted towards girls or they’ll think I’m into them. I also hate thinking that since I’m straight, guys will think I’m into them so I have to be careful. I like being comfortable around everyone. I don’t like identifying myself as strictly straight, because to be honest, maybe, if the right girl came around and asked me out and was persistent and I was comfortable with her, maybe I’d give it a shot.
Just because I’ve never thought about a girl in a sexual way doesn’t mean that I’m strictly straight and just because I’m comfortable around both genders doesn’t mean that I’m bisexual.
I don’t like labels.
Honestly, I’m just Manasvi. I like to think that I date people, not their genders.
- Manasvi (from offoolsandkings)
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“ I am a Christian, and I for one do not support gay marriage. However I also do not think it is right for the other “Christians” who are in government to say who marries who. It is called freedom of religion, I have the right to be Christian just as someone has the right to be Muslim, Hindu, Jewish, agnostic, atheist or worship the flying spaghetti monster. We do not however have the right to push our beliefs on anyone who does not believe the same things we do. ”
A Very Smart Youtube Commenter
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Our real first gay president
The new issue of Newsweek features a cover photo of President Obama topped by a rainbow-colored halo and captioned “The First Gay President.” The halo and caption strike me as cheap sensationalism. I realize airport travelers look at a magazine for 2.2 seconds before moving on to the next one. I grant that this cover will probably get Newsweek a 4.4 second glance. I also understand that Newsweek is desperate for sales. Nevertheless, I doubt that the Newsweek of old, before it was sold for a dollar, would have pandered as shallowly.
The caption is a superficial way to characterize an important development of thought that the president — along with the country — has been making over recent years. It is also entirely wrong. Like the mini-furor a couple of months back about the claim that Richard Nixon was our first gay president, the story simply ignores that the U.S. already had a gay president more than a century ago.
There can be no doubt that James Buchanan was gay, before, during and after his four years in the White House. Moreover, the nation knew it, too — he was not far into the closet.
Today, I know no historian who has studied the matter and thinks Buchanan was heterosexual. Fifteen years ago, historian John Howard, author of “Men Like That,” a pioneering study of queer culture in Mississippi, shared with me the key documents, including Buchanan’s May 13, 1844, letter to a Mrs. Roosevelt. Describing his deteriorating social life after his great love, William Rufus King, senator from Alabama, had moved to Paris to become our ambassador to France, Buchanan wrote:
I am now “solitary and alone,” having no companion in the house with me. I have gone a wooing to several gentlemen, but have not succeeded with any one of them. I feel that it is not good for man to be alone; and should not be astonished to find myself married to some old maid who can nurse me when I am sick, provide good dinners for me when I am well, and not expect from me any very ardent or romantic affection.
Tl;dr Newsweek go fuck yourself. We’ve had a gay president before. Stop being a sensationalist piece of shit.
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i was babysitting a little boy and girl once and the boy asked me if i had a boyfriend and i said “no!! but i have a girlfriend!” and he said “like a friend thats a girl?” and i said “no like a boyfriend but they’re a girl instead of a boy! we still do couple things but we’re just both girls” and he said, without missing a beat, “oh ok! are you gonna marry her?”
like it’s literally that easy for kids to understand
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