Everything They Say We Are
I want to have adventures and take enormous risks and be everything they say we are. --Dorothy Allison That quote comes from a post at Shiri Eisner's Bi Radical blog called "The myth of myth-busting: normalcy discourse and bisexual politics" , a post I discovered via a friend's link on Facebook. The post questions and challenges the assumptions of another blogger's post called "Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know, or: 'how I came to stop worrying and like the word bisexual’, Part 2" , which sought to counter some "myths" about bisexuality, namely: Existence . Yes – we do. Monogamy . Yes – we can. Fidelity . Yes – we can. And – we do. HIV & AIDS . No – it’s not all our fault. Confusion . No – we’re really not. Indecision . No – that’s not what fluidity means. Greed . Yes, we can have just one piece of cake. Pants . Yes – we’re as capable as anyone else of keeping our various bits in them. Choice . No – we cannot choose to b...