For a few years now, one of my drunken tirades.. y'know, those that all your close friends have heard more than once but you LOVE to talk again about with strangers? When you're drunk? Yeah, those.
Well, one of mine is the spiel that, if it were up to me, I'd become a bisexual INSTANTLY. I mean, it would pretty much double my chances to score, or find true love or whatever. yay, right?
But, alas, no matter how hard I've tried, I just don't find men physically attractive. At all. Hell, the male body is ugly as fuck to me, especially when compared against the aesthetics of the beautiful female form. My loss.
It's a drunken tirade, said between laughs, hyperbole, gross language, etc. Not really something I gave too much thought about whilst sober, at least not consciously.
Until recently.
About a year ago, I was at a party and someone heard me talking about this with a small group of people... and just... BLEW. UP. He called me out on being "a repressed gay", of promoting unnatural behavior and that I should be ashamed of myself.
Now, since then, every time the subject comes up for whatever reason, it seems it always sparks up the controversy it never did. I just mentioned it in passing to someone on twitter... and not 20 min later I had 6 or 7 replies, all gasping that I had said I wish I could will myself into bisexuality.
GodDAMN did people get their panties in a bunch over that one. And boxers. And tighty whities, for all I know.
But what surprised me the most were a few responses... from the other side. Bisexuals were getting offended cause "I didn't know what I was talking about" and that if I were to be bisexual, it would bring more difficulties than it solved.
So the point in my making this thread is... am I really being offensive without realizing it? Towards bisexuals, at least. If religious zealots or bigots get offended I don't give half a picometer of shit. But being a fucking insensitive moron without even realizing it DOES bother me.
Is my vocal expressing of "hey, yeah, you know what, if my hormones or whatever weren't preventing it, I'd love to be able to love equally, no matter the gender" an insensitive remark in any way I'm missing?
Well, one of mine is the spiel that, if it were up to me, I'd become a bisexual INSTANTLY. I mean, it would pretty much double my chances to score, or find true love or whatever. yay, right?
But, alas, no matter how hard I've tried, I just don't find men physically attractive. At all. Hell, the male body is ugly as fuck to me, especially when compared against the aesthetics of the beautiful female form. My loss.
It's a drunken tirade, said between laughs, hyperbole, gross language, etc. Not really something I gave too much thought about whilst sober, at least not consciously.
Until recently.
About a year ago, I was at a party and someone heard me talking about this with a small group of people... and just... BLEW. UP. He called me out on being "a repressed gay", of promoting unnatural behavior and that I should be ashamed of myself.
Now, since then, every time the subject comes up for whatever reason, it seems it always sparks up the controversy it never did. I just mentioned it in passing to someone on twitter... and not 20 min later I had 6 or 7 replies, all gasping that I had said I wish I could will myself into bisexuality.
GodDAMN did people get their panties in a bunch over that one. And boxers. And tighty whities, for all I know.
But what surprised me the most were a few responses... from the other side. Bisexuals were getting offended cause "I didn't know what I was talking about" and that if I were to be bisexual, it would bring more difficulties than it solved.
So the point in my making this thread is... am I really being offensive without realizing it? Towards bisexuals, at least. If religious zealots or bigots get offended I don't give half a picometer of shit. But being a fucking insensitive moron without even realizing it DOES bother me.
Is my vocal expressing of "hey, yeah, you know what, if my hormones or whatever weren't preventing it, I'd love to be able to love equally, no matter the gender" an insensitive remark in any way I'm missing?
