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From: sdyer@bbncc5.UUCP (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: net.motss
Subject: Re: See The Rainbow!
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Date: Tue, 10-Sep-85 22:29:44 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 10 22:29:44 1985
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>      I'm very sorry to see the intolerance I've seen in this group regarding
>the issue of bisexuality.  It seems to me that all of the problems I've seen
>cited regarding bisexuals would go away if we were all tolerant of each other's
>sexual orientation.

Huh?  Did I lose a bunch of news articles?  I've seen very little here
of what passes for 'intolerance' when cranks appear.  And where were
the discussions of which was "better" or "more authentic"?  Frankly, I
find this appeal to a murky, inauthentic idealism misrepresents
a large part of the discussion, and offers to replace it with the
stony silence which had saddled this newsgroup for a long time.  Hell,
what are we doing posting to this group at all?  Call me a cockeyed
idealist, if you must, but I think it would be wonderful if gay people
and straits lived together in perfect harmony.  Who needs a newsgroup?
Let's all go home and think good thoughts.  Phfffft!

I think this bisexual exchange was one of the most fascinating I've seen
on the net in a long time.  It "brought out", as it were, many ROMs
and ROBs, and presented an almost kaleidoscopic diversity of sexual
options and opinion, some perhaps rather opinionated, but none mean-
spirited or closed-minded.  It was a wonderful opportunity for people
to shatter some preconceived notions of what it means to be a sexual
being, and I think it was an education for all of us, straight, gay
bisexual, or otherwise.  
-- 
/Steve Dyer
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