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From: lkk@teddy.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.motss
Subject: Re: Ann Landers' Latest
Message-ID: <1369@teddy.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 1-Oct-85 13:38:04 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct  1 13:38:04 1985
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References: <573@decwrl.UUCP> <192@Navajo.ARPA>
Reply-To: lkk@teddy.UUCP (Larry K. Kolodney)
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In article <192@Navajo.ARPA> bothner@Navajo.ARPA writes:
>> 	Ann Landers tells us that if bisexuals are forced to
>> choose between MOTOS and MOTSS, they will "invariably" choose
>> MOTSS.
>> 	Any thoughts on this?
>> 		<_Jym_>       [ Jym Dyer ]
>
>There is no need to posit any asymmetric distribution over
>the Kinsey scale. All you have to assume is that in a homophobic
>society, few people who rate 3 or less on the scale will even
>admit to being bisexual in the first place, since they can get
>along reasonably happily as straights.
>	--Per Bothner
>ARPA: Bothner@su-score   UUCP: ...!{decwrl,ucbvax}!shasta!bothner


Yes, but Landers' claim goes AGAINST this intuition, saying that
Bi-s will go for the Gay option.  I misread it the other way too.

She seems to be implying that all bisexuals are REALLY mostly gay, and when
push comes to shove (whatever that means), they drop the pretense.

This probably has some basis in fact (i.e. there are some people
who fit that description), but not any more so than
Per's countervailing phenomenon.

What the hell does Ann Landers know anyway?  Any such black and white 
statement seems founded in ignorance to begin with.



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