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[pantryslut]

YesPortal's authors delight me once again with their keen insight into human nature:

"... allow me to point out that bi women on average tend toward the lipstick end of the spectrum..."

This wouldn't piss me off so much if it wasn't a bi girl herself writing the words.

Comments

[fightingwords.livejournal.com]

um. what the fuck?

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

The quote's from an article on the L Word I edited this morning. It's here, (http://www.yesportal.com/news.cfm/2171) if you're interested in the full context. Not that I recommend it.

Ummm....

[bigsockgrrl.livejournal.com]

Hasn't she ever noticed that you just can't tell from the way someone looks? Arg. If this were true I might be inclined to go off on some rant about bi girls getting the best of both worlds or being more influenced by society or something equally bizarre. Feh. I do think that a lot of girls believe they need to get a little butch to show their colors, at least when they first come out. I did, and I know quite a few girls who cut their hair when they first decided to advertise "hey! I like chicks!" But this is pretty transitory for femme girls, in my experience. If I were to generalize, which I know I shouldn't, I would say that bi girls tend to have a better grasp of the ideas of androgyny and genderfuckery. BUT, I can't really do that honestly because I live in a Californian sex positive freak bubble where almost everyone has a better than average grasp of the concept of genderfuckery.

As a femme-looking bi girl, I personally think that any kind of publicity -- good or bad -- for bisexuals is great because there's still too many people who need to come out of the closet, and images of girly-girls tell all the closet cases that you don't need to look like a man if you're attracted to chicks. All of that adds up to more of my physical types who become available for dating.

This pisses me off even more. There were 2 hardest things about coming out as bi for me: knowing bisexuality exists and slogging through all the stereotypes to figure out what "bi" really means in my case. Bad publicity will not help this problem. Shut up Jackie Cohen. You only represent yourself.

I'm confused....

[abostick59.livejournal.com]

My first reaction is that this author is saying something wrongheaded about the butch-femme dichotomy. But the more I think about it, the more it seems like there's something even more fundamentally wrongheaded going on here.

What's at the other end of the spectrum from lipstick?

Re: I'm confused....

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

You might be picking up on the fact that she seems to have substituted "lipstick" for "femme" and "looking like a man" for butch. In other words, she shows no actual understanding of the butch-femme system at all; she's bought into straight stereotypes about dyke gender representation. But because of her "insider" status, she makes those stereotypical assumptions look valid.