coming out
well...i just came out as bisexual on both facebook and myspace...let's see how many of my friends decide to stop speaking to me. i think whoever is bothered by that already has stopped their facebook relationship with me given the blatant support of No on Prop 8 on my profile, and the complaints i sent to them if they invited me to Yes on 8 facebook groups...but i'm curious to see what happens now. i've come out to my mom...this will be the first that the extended family hears about it...any high school friends...klinton's family...i'm not really sure why i feel the need to do it, but when i ask myself, "why not?" all i can come up with is, "i don't want x person to find out." and that isn't a good reason. i don't have any shame in what i have discovered about my sexuality, i'm proud of the person that i have become. anyone that is in my life that does not share these sentiments needs to know that they are directly hurting someone they care about.
here goes...
p.s. facebook, can you please come up with better terminology for sexual orientation? i don't like to identify as 'bisexual' because i don't feel equally attracted to each gender, and i think the term perpetuates a gender binary system that needs to end. i don't know which term i like better, and it's awkward to give a paragraph description of your identity, but box-checking doesn't really cover the gamut of human sexuality either.
\end rant.
posted by siobhan @ 12:59 AM
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