Where do you stand?
The political world has been churning with so much news on the gay-related front lately that I haven’t even known where to start, especially not before my first gallon of coffee. There’s Senator Larry Craig, still sawing at his proverbial wrists as he continues to commit political suicide, while the governor of Iowa is making an arse of himself. Anti-gay religious leader James Kennedy has died (they’re dropping like flies lately; I don’t know if it’s the generation and their age, or if I should reconsider my atheism and wonder if the Rapture is coming…not), and so has any chance of passing an adoption bill in Arkansas that could affect gays wishing to adopt. Last but not least, employees who faced workplace discrimination due to their sexual orientation spoke before a House panel on Wednesday.
It’s a mess, a tangle that’s almost impossible to unravel, and all I’m doing is sitting back and watching like a good little media voyeur to see what’s going to happen. At this point, what else can you do other than shake your head? (Though I swear, if any of you callous monkeys start yattering on about being happy that Kennedy is dead in the same way you did about Falwell…bloody inhuman wankers.)
I will say this regarding the last article: I wish we could leave sexuality out of the workplace wholly. While we should never have to bite our tongues when referring to our husbands, wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, regardless of our own gender…we go to work to work. Our sexuality and whom we’re involved with are a part of our private lives; that goes for gay, straight, bisexual, transgender, whatever. There’s nothing wrong with knowing “Oh, Bob over there is married to Sue, while Trish is dating this nice girl Mary”, but it really shouldn’t go any farther than that. It shouldn’t matter, either way. It shouldn’t be something that we need to proclaim at the top of our lungs, but it also shouldn’t be something that our employers need to consider when dealing with issues of employment.
Work. Leave your personal life at home, and let your employees leave their personal lives at home. The gender of one’s partner has no impact on how well one performs a job.
Anyway…I’m done with that little rant. Instead I want to wander away a bit and take a poll of my readers. I often mention the Kinsey Scale as a way to measure degrees of hetero-and-homosexuality, and I’m curious, so comment and tell me: where do you think you stand on the Kinsey Scale?
| The Kinsey Scale | |
| Rating | Description |
| 0 | Exclusively heterosexual |
| 1 | Predominantly heterosexual, only incidentally homosexual |
| 2 | Predominantly heterosexual, but more than incidentally homosexual |
| 3 | Equally heterosexual and homosexual |
| 4 | Predominantly homosexual, but more than incidentally heterosexual |
| 5 | Predominantly homosexual, only incidentally heterosexual |
| 6 | Exclusively homosexual |
| X | Asexual |
Okay, so technically X isn’t a number, but you get the idea. I’d say I’m a definite 5. How about you?
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September 6th, 2007 at 11:19 am
I’d say a 1, maybe a 2… Not sure.
So sad about the adoption law thing…
September 6th, 2007 at 11:23 am
Actually, the adoption law is a good thing. The law would prevent unmarried couples from adopting - including gay couples who can’t marry in Arkansas. As long as the law isn’t passed, then unmarried (and gay) couples can still adopt.
September 6th, 2007 at 12:05 pm
I’m definitely a five.
September 6th, 2007 at 3:08 pm
Adrien, that’s what I meant =) I should have been more clear. I meant it makes me said that someone would try to pass a law like that.
September 6th, 2007 at 3:23 pm
4.5? I think when I was in high school, just the presence of hormones made me a 3, but as I’ve gotten older things calm down and I realize that the attraction to other men is more predominant. There are still days when I see quite a few women I find attractive, too many to say 5 but still too few to say 4.
September 6th, 2007 at 6:27 pm
2; X because of meds (it takes a lot to get me going, in other words). I’m kinda tired of guys; I want to date a woman.
September 6th, 2007 at 7:53 pm
I’m going to say easily a five with a possibility for a six. Girly bits just aren’t appealing for me.
September 7th, 2007 at 8:33 am
I would say a five, but like someone else said, perhaps between a four and a five.
September 8th, 2007 at 10:08 am
Somewhere between a 2 and an X.
February 26th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
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