BISEXUALITY AT YALE: Eve

Odd that this Jennifer Vanasco column and this Yale Daily News piece were published the same day. When I read the YDN thing, there were so many places where I wanted to challenge or complicate or reframe or just say, "yes, but" that in the end I was too tired to give anything like a full response. Instead, I'm going to list off the areas that the YDN touched on not at all and that Vanasco either ignored or barely gestured at. (Some of these are more directly applicable to college students, obviously.) I wish the YDN reporter had asked about, or printed the responses to questions about, any of the following:
* religion.
* what your parents think, what they want for you, and what responsibilities you have to them.
* what you want from your future.
* what dating is for.
* what sex is for.
* what sexual identity (as a man or a woman) is for.
* what sexual-orientation identity (sorry, there's no great word for this) is for.
* do you want children? if so, how would your choice of a male or female partner affect them?
* what do your views imply about the ex-gay movement?
* (this is mostly for one student from the YDN piece) if gender is really as fluid as all that--and getting fluid-er by the minute--what's up with saying men are cool b/c they're challenging and women are cool b/c they cuddle? do you think that will still be true in fifty years, and would you miss it?
* does anybody ask you this stuff?
posted by Eve at 9:24 PM VOTE

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