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Title: Against Being 'Born This Way'
Post by: Julie Marie on September 16, 2011, 11:56:51 AM
Queer by Choice, Not by Chance: Against Being 'Born This Way' (http://www.theatlantic.com/life/archive/2011/09/queer-by-choice-not-by-chance-against-being-born-this-way/244898/)
By Lindsay Miller

Sep 12 2011, 2:02 PM ET 241

Whether or not I deserve the same rights as straight people has nothing to do with whether I chose to be the way I am today
Title: Re: Against Being 'Born This Way'
Post by: NatashaD on September 16, 2011, 12:03:29 PM
Interesting. The author is all over the map, but I wonder if people who have not had to deal with those issues would "get" what she is saying.
Title: Re: Against Being 'Born This Way'
Post by: cynthialee on September 16, 2011, 12:53:29 PM
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I think she's bisexual and doesn't get that not everybody is.  Because if you're bi, then obviously you can choose to be in a gay couple or a straight couple, and potentially be happy, which seems to be her point.  She seems close-minded, actually.
I am bisexual and do not understand the straight or gay mindset.
But I don't make an issue of it.
Title: Re: Against Being 'Born This Way'
Post by: Julie Marie on September 17, 2011, 10:05:21 AM
Quote from: Logan Bann on September 16, 2011, 12:10:10 PM
I think she's bisexual and doesn't get that not everybody is.  Because if you're bi, then obviously you can choose to be in a gay couple or a straight couple, and potentially be happy, which seems to be her point.  She seems close-minded, actually.

Exactly what I thought when I read it.  Except instead of seeing her as close-minded I felt she was trying to be controversial so as to get people riled.