“Up against criticism from conservatives and fundamentalists that the gay lifestyle, if not a sickness, was at least a sin and was wilfully “chosen,” gay strategists instead asserted that they were “born that way” and could not change even if they wanted to. It thus became popular, as well as politically expedient, to argue and assume that people are either one or the other. Related to this, an important question is whether one can demand rights for a “choice.” As long as sexuality is seen as fixed at birth or soon after, gay legal theorists who base their gay civil rights arguments on monosexual assumptions about sexual orientation can argue that gays should be a protected class and deserve civil rights on that basis. No one is currently arguing in the courts that same-sex love can also be a choice and, like religion, also deserves defence on that ground.”
- Loraine Hutchins, Bisexuality: The Psychology and Politics of an Invisibly Minority
If you give $100 to a homeless person, they'll be in shock by your generosity. They'll feel guilty taking such a ridiculously large amount of money from you.
But if you give $1,500 to your landlord every month, next year they'll demand more unless the law literally says they can't.
Meanwhile, people demonize the homeless person as a "freeloader" while respecting the landlord.
#mood
Conte d’Été (Éric Rohmer, 1996)
“Sadly, there is a certain necessity, a certain self-protection in silence. Statistically, bisexual women are nearly twice as likely to experience domestic violence… The trope of heterosexual men asking for three ones with their bisexual partners is an eye roll, an annoyance, but this kind of thinking, this equating bisexuality with complete sexual openness and desire to please men, possibly so they won’t leave you, can be much more serious.”
- Annie Dobson, The Bi-ble: New Testimonials, Further original narratives and essays about bisexuality
ALEXA DEMIE LEOPARD LIMO (Archive LL11)
hi do you have any bisexual graphics? i hope you have a nice day :)
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