thoughts...

[jhenii-family.livejournal.com]

So I've been thinking of this post by kasiya_system (based on this post from this community) for several days...

My mind keeps coming back to it, like your tongue to a popcorn kernel stuck in your teeth...

Basically, I think it parallels my theory on lesbians. HUH?!? Bear with me...

I believe that all women are lesbians, it's just a matter of how much. Think of a ruler and one end of it is being attracted to women, and the other end is being attracted to men. Women stand on this ruler and slide back and forth depending on a variety of things... some sliding more than others.

I believe that women are this way because it promotes connections between women, so that we'll help each other raise our children and general take care of everything that needs doing while menfolk are off getting themselves killed with hunting or battles or whatever other manly things they do...

So, tell that to some Lesbians, and they get angry. Very, very angry. Why? Because they like the idea of being part of some very exclusive, very different group of people, i.e., gay women.

Well, what if being multiple wasn't as rare or as different as some people believe it is? What if everyone is multiple, and it's just a matter of degrees? A matter of where on the ruler you stand? What if it's just a normal function of the human mind, and not special or exclusive at all?

That would make some people very very angry, I imagine. They might try to insist that only people exactly like them were multiple, and everyone else was lying, or schizophrenic, or something else entirely.

To these people, like some lesbians, being multiple is their total idenity. Make that less rare, less special, less important, and it's as if you are attacking the very fabric of what makes them them.

Anyhoo... that's my take.

~x-posted to princesstoots~

Comments

[etana.livejournal.com]

Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm that's pretty controversial as far as lesbianism goes. Technically you are talking not so much about lesbianism - the sexual/physical/spiritual/emotional attraction to women-identified-women by women-identified-women, but rather the spectrum of sexual identity.
There are few who are completely straight or completely "gay" as it were - but the fluidity of sexuality allows for folks to be "queer" - not gay or straight, so to speak.
Just as there is a spectrum of multiplicity. Does this make sense?

[jhenii-family.livejournal.com]

And *that* is exactly what I'm talking about.

I'm not *really* gay because I fell in love with a man. I'm out of the club, despite the fact that before him, I dated women and only women.

There aren't enough words in the world to catagorize human sexuality. They are all just *words*