Time to come up with another slur for homosexuals:
Originally a synonym for "odd" or "unusual," the word evolved into an anti-gay insult in the last century, only to be reclaimed by defiant gay and lesbian activists who chanted: "We're here, we're queer, get used to it."
Now "queer" is sneaking into the mainstream -- and taking on a hipster edge as a way to describe any sexual orientation beyond straight.
I'm a sucker for anything with a "hipster edge." Tell me more.
"I love it because, in one word, you can refer to the alphabet soup of gay, lesbian, bisexual, questioning, 'heteroflexible,' 'omnisexual,' 'pansexual' and all of the other shades of difference in that fluid, changing arena of human sexuality," says 27-year-old Stacy Harbaugh. She's the program coordinator for the Indiana Youth Group, a drop-in center in Indianapolis for youth who may place themselves into any of those categories.
I'm not sure I grok the difference between "pansexual' and 'omnisexual." The mental images produced by both terms leave me a little queasy, however, probably because I take "omni" to mean, well, "everything." Goats, vegetables, appliances, what have you.
James Cross, a 26-year-old Chicagoan, personally likes the term "metrosexual," meant to describe straight men like him who are into designer clothes, love art and fashion and even enjoy shopping (much like "queer-eyed straight guys").
So "metrosexuality" = "self-absorption?" Whatever exfoliates your boat.
Uh oh. Cheese it, the Fundamentalists are here:
"['Queer' is] not a particular word we're concerned with," says Ed Vitagliano, of the American Family Association in Tupelo, Mississippi. "It's that the media and the entertainment industries are such powerful transmitters of values for only one side of this controversial issue."
You guys are still playing the "liberal media" card? How totally gay.
As far as I can tell, there's no justification for them having different meanings, unless one of them has sex with Zamfir, satyrs, cookware or bread.
Assuming that's not the case, I'd speculate that the most reasonable distinction is that one has sex with anything, while the other has sex with EVERYTHING.
Please don't have sex with my new briefcase. It scuffs easily.
Whatever. As long as people aren't hurting or bothering anyone else, they can do as they please. Though, I'm convinced many of these freaks like to invent kinks and corresponding labels just so they can feel different and unique compared to their nonconformist associates. (Don't even get me started on those people who want to be different, just like everyone else).
Again, whatever. As long as folks are happy, more power to them. But I, for one, will never tire of conventional male/female sexual relations. Then again, I've always been a sucker for the classics.
>Grok
You little sci-fi nerd you!
Pansexuals are people who have sex with Zamphir or want to have sex with Zamphir or who can only be aroused while listening to Zamphir CDs.