bill margolis wrote:
> > My experience has been that if I encounter any argument that asserts that
> > there is no such thing as bisexuality in human males, I will not have to
> > read very far before the author defines a "continuous distribution" in
> > terms roughly corresponding to "symmetric," and then asserts that all
> > distributions are either symmetric or dichotomous (though without using
> > either term).
I must have missed something, but I don't see what the connection
between bisexuality-denial and delusions of symmetry.
Indeed, I cannot recall *ever* coming across anybody making the first
claim; under what circumstances is it usually made? The usual "odd"
assertion about sexual orientation that one does hear sometimes from
social conservatives is that there is no such thing as homosexual
orientation, such behaviour being supposedly entirely a matter of
choice; but that seems to be asserting the opposite, namely the ubiquity
of bisexuality. (Somebody commented, some time back, of a politician
who had made such a statement: "He has just 'outed' himself as a
bisexual living a voluntary heterosexual lifestyle.")
So, anyhow: can you enlighten me? Where and why are these two odd
beliefs correlated?
-Robert Dawson
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