Gay or Straight?

Ok...due to a recent influx of posts on this matter, I figured this would be a good time to post a poll of degree info members, where they can honestly and anomyously post their answers!!

 

So far, the results are quite interesting.....

 

You forgot Metrosexual.

 

One can follow trends with each year's name for what was originally the Gay Pride Parade in San Francisco.

Now it is the Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender Pride parade. So you left a few out.

A couple of years ago, the provost of a school in the rural midwest came to visit me. She had never been to the San Francisco area, and was here for only one day and one night. She hoped to do something special in the way of a show or something. But it was Monday night, when there is precious little going on. We checked all sources, and found only an A's game, a few obscure poetry readings, and . . . a concert by a transgender country and western band. We stayed home and talked.

 

In such matters, shouldn't there be a category such as "Not Otherwise Specified? In this Postmodern world, one does not want to be so restricted.

Jack
(committed hetero, monogamous)--who cares?

 

I agree, who cares, but I always love seeing polls from Dr. Gina!!!!!!!!

(And, I don't get the inside joke of the last category)

 

An anecdotal side note . . .

After the death of longtime president Robert Conley, The Union Institute (now Union Institute & University) selected Judith Sturnick as the university's new president. She certainly had impressive qualifications, and choosing a woman as president certainly fit with Union's progressive nature.

She turned out to be even more progressive, at least in image, several months later when Union's magazine featured an extensive piece on Judith and her lover. Dr. Sturnick, it turned out, was a lesbian, and quite open about her sexual preference.

Many of us were delighted - especially those in the gay community (sorry, kids, I refuse to call it the GLBT community). In fact, the article was the first indication I had that Judith was "one of us."

The problem, of course, is that Dr. Sturnick is now credited, to some degree, with taking Union down the tubes and contributing to its current problems. Granted, those problems started before her time, but the fact that she ended up running such a personality-driven administration certainly didn't help the situation.

In short, it was nice to see a lesbian at the helm, but Judith was, quite blatantly, the wrong lesbian. She ended up being to Union was Clarence Thomas is to the Supreme Court (i.e., African-Americans are delighted to see one of their own on the Court, except that, as a Rhenquist/Scalia clone, he turned out to be the wrong African-American for the gig).

So what does the whole straight/gay issue infer in terms of higher education? The same thing it infers to any field - nothing.

Nonetheless, it is fun to watch - especially bo79's posts - and I look forward to degreeinfo.com adding a cruising forum to its growing menu.

 

Bob,

If you are a metrosexual then you are a heterosexual male that only has sex with other females, but you have very good taste, a great sense of style and take very good care of your body, hair and skin.

 

Very good idea. I really hope everyone on here votes.

 

As I write this post, the current poll results indicate that 18.6% of respondents are gay, 5.12% straight, and 6.98% bi (plus the other miscellaneous categories).

Since this far exceeds the common concept that 10% of the population is gay (which, conservatives believe, is a skewed figure on the part of Kinsey, et al.), might one conclude that the distance education world is more gay than other areas? Should, for example, distance learners be grouped along with florists, dancers, and hair stylists?

(This, of course, is a rhetorical question designed to spoof the usual stereotypes. Everyone knows that if a straight guy wants to pick up more women, he should become a hairdresser.)

Perhaps it is no coincidence that the common abbreviation "D/L" would mean distance learning or down low (a common phrase used to indicate supposedly straight married guys who have sex with other guys on the side - while the expression originated in the African-American community, the practice is quite diverse).

Obviously, then, a married guy who is a distance learner and has sex with other guys would be a "D/L on the D/L."

 

Unless, of course, his wife was very understanding, which would make her a very Desirable Lover (D/L) to him.

 

You're exposing your clinical background, Jack, ha!

 

Perhaps but maybe it just means that gays like taking poles more?

 

Ouch!

 

I'm not touching that one with a 10 foot pole!

 

Braggart!

 

I'm not even touching it with a 10-inch pole.

Reminds me of the old joke, "How do you make four gay guys happy in a straight bar? -- Turn a bar stool upside down."

 

OK, let's please try to keep things *reasonably* tasteful here

Thanks!

Chip

 

Tasteful? That's the worst comment yet, Chip.

 

Jimmy:
I've fathered 5 children in 7 1/2 years. I've gotta brag about something! And they say we evangelicals are sexually repressed.