| Bailey Trashes Bisexuals Again...?! |
 Bailey Trashes Bisexuals Again...?!
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Mar. 15th, 2006 @ 12:01 pm 
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This is why books like BI MEN and BI GUYS exist.
http://tinyurl.com/nwclw
From: "my_boston_buddy" <my_boston_buddy@...>
Date: Tue Mar 14, 2006 11:31 am
Subject: Re: 60 Minutes my_boston_buddy
Sorry to say, two of the "experts" that Lesley Stahl interviewed, Michael Bailey and his protegé Gerulf Rieger, are known wackos.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Michael_Bailey
As part of their "research", they've advanced the idea of homosexual eugenics, i.e. the ability to identify and abort a fetus that's likely to become homosexual post-puberty. "Parental Selection of Childrens Sexual Orientation"
http://tinyurl.com/jd3ps (55kb Adobe Acrobat .pdf file)
They also claim scientific proof that bisexuality does not exist.
"Straight, Gay or Lying?" http://tinyurl.com/dkozy
(NY Times, free registration required)
It's disturbing -- make that unethical -- that 60 Minutes would legitimize these guys without mentioning the many, many controversies that surround them.
--- In boston-bears@yahoogroups.com, "bearman03887" <bearman03887@...wrote:>
FYI: My name is Robin Sanders, and I work at CBS News. I wanted to let you know about a story that "60 Minutes" will be airing this Sunday focusing on the question of what determines whether a person is gay or straight. It's a fascinating piece, and we're trying to get the word out beforehand to as many people as possible who might have a particular interest in this subject. To that end, we were wondering if you might consider sending out an email to your listserve and/or posting something on your website. The story will be broadcast on CBS stations on at 7:00 ET/PT on Sunday, March 12. Further details will be posted on our website,
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/1998/07/08/60minutes/main13502.shtml
which you're welcome to link to from your own site. Below, you'll find a short write-up about the piece.
"GAY OR STRAIGHT?" There are few issues as hotly contested -- and as poorly understood - - as the question of what makes a person gay or straight. It's a political question, a social question, a religious question. But it's also a science question, and one that might someday have an actual, provable answer. The handful of scientists who work in this under-funded and politically charged field will tell you that the answer is a long way off. But their efforts are already yielding tantalizing clues. Lesley Stahl looks at the research being conducted in the field of sexual orientation on this week's "60 MINUTES," Sunday, March 12 at 7PM ET/PT on CBS.Current Mood: sperky Current Music: AAR - Franken |
Thanx for posting that.I saw that 60 minutes and taped it.Although some of the findings sound interesting and tantalizing it's just another story that's polarizing America.I'm so sick of the media and the politiciansmarginalizing the majority and pushing people into two categories.absolutely horrible and abysmal.
The problem with measuring bisexuality is this-If you really believe in the Kinsey scale,as I do,true 50/50 bisexuals are VERY rare.They would fall on the peak of the bell curve and make up only a small portion of the population.But if you look at sexuality from a birds eye view you can see that MOST people are bisexual TO ONE DEGREE OR ANOTHER.That is not to say that they ACT in a bisexual manor ,or that thier behavior is bisexual in nature ,but that they have bisexual urges or impulses....Chasity Bono said it like this-if you live your life using your right hand because you had to that wouldn't make you right handed.You may have been born right handed or left handed or ambidextorous.Societal pressures and morays fall heavy on the choices people make and don't neccesarily , if ever ,reflect the true NATURE of individuals in society.
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