I'm not really someone
who is a victim of prejudice to be honest. I'm white, middle class woman at university etc. The only way I can say that I might be a victim is sexuality. I'm bisexual but more on the lines of preferring men but being open to the right woman. I went to an LGBT meeting- once and only once. It turned out not to be my sort of meeting at all, and was well and truly cemented by the President of said society wandering up to me and saying in his most Etonesque manner 'are you a lesbian my dear, or merely here with a friend?'

I said (shyly- I was a first year fresher) that I identified as bi.

He gave a massive laugh and said 'do bisexual women exist? How unusual. There is no such thing as a bisexual man.' He turned his back then and ignored me from that moment on.
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Thu 1 Apr 2010, 22:02, 14 replies)

There's a massive debate in my student paper at the moment
About our LGBT society becoming LGBTQ... the main argument being the obvious "But the word was created to abhor classification!" I swear more people get involved in the debate than there are people in the society.

Also, that guy who said that was obviously an idiot. Presidency= much needed extra credit, right? ;)
(Sivvus trolley collision in the fruit aisle led to a jam, Thu 1 Apr 2010, 22:20, closed)

If I had my way
(and was at all bothered about the entire idea) I'd like the society renamed to Q. As in my opinion Queer (in the proper sense not the derogatory) covers most of the options including i
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Thu 1 Apr 2010, 22:25, closed)

Yeah, exactly
But like you, I'm not really fussed. :)
(Sivvus trolley collision in the fruit aisle led to a jam, Thu 1 Apr 2010, 23:09, closed)

Despite being half-gay myself, I never had any truck with such organisations.
It seemed unconstructive to deliberately set yourself apart from society on the grounds of something as personal and as variable as your sexuality.

Also, I got the impression many of the members were well-off kids having a bit of rebellious experimentation during the grace period between home and work; something told me that once they were in work they'd eventually settle down with that nice Steve or Alison from accounts, lose their sexual open-mindedness (assuming they ever had it in the first place) and ease themselves into a life of comfortable mediocrity.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Fri 2 Apr 2010, 0:04, closed)

which is why
I never went again. Well only once and for the cheap drinks
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Fri 2 Apr 2010, 0:08, closed)

Bloody amateurs.

( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Fri 2 Apr 2010, 0:12, closed)

Still not as bloody ludicrous
as straight women in gay clubs getting offended if they're hit on
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Fri 2 Apr 2010, 0:13, closed)

i'm straight
my 2 best friends are a gay couple, i've been to loads of clubs with them. the only time i got offended by someone hitting on me was when it was a woman who'd already been knocked back by every other woman in the bar!
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Fri 2 Apr 2010, 0:57, closed)

well it's not a personal experience
since I go to clubs to dance not to pull, so I've never chatted someone up in my life. But I've witnessed it on several occasions, and I rather think you must be the exception
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Fri 2 Apr 2010, 1:21, closed)

Which is why
I say ..'I'm not Bi..I'm just greedy' Or is it 'I'm not dirty, I'm just open minded'. Either way it seems to work...breaks the ice. Then we can have a boogie!!
( Herb Alpert's Taxi Driver I have very beautiful lips, Fri 2 Apr 2010, 1:58, closed)

i just don't see the point in it
if you're in a bar that is predominantly gay, you have to accept that many of the people there will expect you to be gay, too. if i got wound up by it, i just wouldn't go.
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Fri 2 Apr 2010, 22:41, closed)

So
Gay. I say this as a man who used to, but doesn't now. Sucking cock used to be so much fun...
( DeadEyeDick, Fri 2 Apr 2010, 3:59, closed)

This
has always struck me as a particularly thick prejudice: one minority discriminating against another minority who are already discriminated against by the majority, whereas the only ostensible thing the two minorities have in common is the exact thing that means they're discriminated against by the majority in the first place. I'm sure some students would love to have a separate GaySoc, LesSoc, BiSoc and TransSoc, just to ram the anti-solidarity message home even further.

Actually, I think there was a GaySoc when I was at university, as well as an LGBT society. The only purpose I could see for it was to accommodate men who liked copping off with other men but who were rubbish at pulling in clubs (like me - I've never managed to pull when I couldn't hear what the other person was saying and make myself heard in return).
( .Yeti. El amor en los tiempos del cólera, Fri 2 Apr 2010, 7:11, closed)

And this is why I never bothered
If you managed to suppress the urge to insult or ridicule the small-minded fool, you're a better woman than I am!
(louveciennes , Volvospotter, Mon 5 Apr 2010, 21:41, closed)