Tha Wrecka ([info]thawrecka) wrote,
@ 2009-07-10 22:26:00
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the short hairy dude that never shaves is my favourite character? and yet I don't like wolverine
* For all that it's trashy throw-away entertainment, X-Force had some damn good artists in the mid to late 90s - Terry Dodson, Jim Cheung, Tommy Lee Edwards.

* Cannot wait for the next issue of X-Factor as the preview indicates the plot will actually be moving forward. Yay.

* Am I the only person whose coming out as queer was not traumatic or dramatic or any kind of event at all? Because nobody, as I recall, was surprised or bothered and I've encountered very little actual biphobia in my time.

* Right now I am reading one book which talks about the fun of Ren and Stimpy and another that stated that people collect comics because they are, and I quote, 'awesome'. Media analysis is the funnest kind of non fiction.


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[info]jain
2009-07-10 04:02 pm UTC (link)
My parents were a little annoying when I came out (my mom told me I shouldn't tell my dad or younger siblings--which of course I did anyway--and my dad told me that he still loved me, but he couldn't be proud of this), but it was nothing traumatic. And both of them later got over it: they were happy for me when I was dating my ex-girlfriend, etc. My siblings and friends were nothing but awesome about my coming out. :-)

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[info]thawrecka
2009-07-11 03:29 am UTC (link)
That's pretty awesome. It always seems so drama drama drama in fiction, which I just can't relate to at all, and I guess I wanted to see if I am completely alone in that.

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[info]karinberry
2009-07-10 05:14 pm UTC (link)
Coming out to my immediate friends and family was no big deal. For everyone else, like coworkers, classmates, and aquaintances, I didn't know them well enough for the topic to come up in conversation, and I wasn't about to go around introducing myself as bi.

The hardest part was in the LGBT club at uni. I had swung quite far in the direction of "lesbian" at the time, and I hadn't ever told any of them I was bi, and thus they assumed, based on my tomboyish clothing and short hair, that I was a lesbian. I fell into the role easily enough -- until I got a crush on a boy.

Then, and only then, did I find the prospect of telling someone I am bisexual a daunting thing. There was so much bi hate in that club. It was bad enough that the guys I was friends with outside the club would react like, "woah, you're bi? so you, like, do chicks AND guys? that's HOT."

The worst thing in the world for me was to see someone else in the club identify as bi and be told by one of the gays or lesbians, "oh, that's okay honey, we'll fix you." or even worse, "why don't you just come out all the way? we're all family."

Like it was impossible for me to be anything more than a SLUT to the straight community, and anything less than CONFUSED or a COWARD.

At the time, I was on the board, and I approached the president of the club about setting aside a portion of a meeting to talk about bisexuality. I thought it was abhorrent the way a bi person was made to feel uncomfortable with their sexuality in the presence of the very people they ought to feel most welcomed.

In all, the meeting was a success. Several people spoke up, once I opened the floor, to say that they also sometimes had feelings for people of the opposite sex, and hadn't felt comfortable saying so. The president, too, which didn't suprise me since he'd once confessed he really liked my breasts (he was drunk), but seemed to shock a few people in the room.

That's by big coming out story. :]

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[info]thawrecka
2009-07-11 06:34 am UTC (link)
It's pretty epic! I've never even tried to join an LGBT club.

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[info]violetsquirrel
2009-07-11 04:27 am UTC (link)
\o my mother asked me before I told her and wasn't surprised in the least, my brother was a little surprised but got over it in about ten seconds. Never had anything more traumatic than that |D

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[info]thawrecka
2009-07-11 06:32 am UTC (link)
High five! Solidarity. Maybe Moo is write and it's a Western Australia thing.

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