May 23rd, 2008

Our words.

  • May. 23rd, 2008 at 2:47 PM
dumbledore is gay
homosexual - homeosexual - bisexual - heteroflexible - heterosexual

There was no word, that I knew of, which described those of you interested most often in your own gender, but not exclusively -- the extremely gay end of the bi spectrum. So I've coined one -- homeosexual.

As you can see, all other general regions of the continuum were named. I understand there to be something jesting in the term 'heteroflexible', and this is a shame, but I'm sure it can be overcome.

Perhaps we don't all need labels, but it is easier to explain oneself when there is a word for it.
Not that I like the word 'homosexual' particularly. Or 'gay', or 'queer'. 'Lesbian' isn't so bad these days, but I've heard it upsets the actual Lesbians of Lesvos. 'Vagitarian' is funny, but too funny. No one uses 'homophilic', but I like it's association with proteins ('homophile' pleases me less).
"so it's the combination, the precise combination of regulatory factors that are found, transcription factors, that will help you define that segment of the embryo; and then later that embryo is going to get defined even further, to even thinner segments, and eventually those segments are going to have wings or not have wings."
-- Dr Michelle French
(Genetics, lecture 22)

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