that's why i said "dumbass labelling scheme". that's a rather modern and very stupid invention, imo. actually, i don't think of them as gay or bi or whatever. or a happy pink gay army in fluffy uniforms. lol
i wonder how a society where there'd be no repression or denigration of same-sex contact (thus without all the reactivism phenomena these incite) would look like. first, i think there'd be very few individuals not having a same-gender experience.
>>>but I'm still not so sure about whether Alexander really was all that bisexual what can we know for sure from 300 B.C. (or when was it)? but i still wonder what criteria are there to fulfill to qualify as "bisexual". for example, not so long ago i was watching this documentary about Alexander on Discovery. it quite clearly mentioned some man being a very close friend of Alexander to a point that they shared their bed. now, in a society where same-sex contact is pretty ordinary, far less a taboo than nowadays.. you wouldn't notice anything being "out of order". thus the term "bisexual" with all its contemporary conotations is not applicable. but "bisexual" as a simple descriptive term (not of the person, but simply behaviour) could be.
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Date: 2004-10-01 04:08 pm (UTC)actually, i don't think of them as gay or bi or whatever. or a happy pink gay army in fluffy uniforms. lol
i wonder how a society where there'd be no repression or denigration of same-sex contact (thus without all the reactivism phenomena these incite) would look like.
first, i think there'd be very few individuals not having a same-gender experience.
>>>but I'm still not so sure about whether Alexander really was all that bisexual
what can we know for sure from 300 B.C. (or when was it)?
but i still wonder what criteria are there to fulfill to qualify as "bisexual".
for example, not so long ago i was watching this documentary about Alexander on Discovery. it quite clearly mentioned some man being a very close friend of Alexander to a point that they shared their bed.
now, in a society where same-sex contact is pretty ordinary, far less a taboo than nowadays.. you wouldn't notice anything being "out of order". thus the term "bisexual" with all its contemporary conotations is not applicable. but "bisexual" as a simple descriptive term (not of the person, but simply behaviour) could be.