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[sebastienne]

Hi Emma,

We did not 'tell any proportion of our readership that it did not exist.'
We reported the opinions of one person. That is what newspapers do. We
also reported the views of someone else who disagreed with him and quoted
George melly as a well-known example of a bisexual - again, hardly a
denial that bisexuals exist. We suspect that our readers have enough
intelligence to make up their own minds on such issues.

regards

Kieran Meeke
Features Editor

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[billyphatu.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, and don't take anything printed in the Metro to heart. It is the most hashed-together daily publication anywhere in the country, with a team that is lethargic in an equal proportion. The Metro is just a control device to take some people's minds off of the state of the Underground service. They often do these little features about health and sexuality, and it usually just a patched together excuse of an informative and educational article by an inexperienced and ignorant young "journalist" who would rather be at home watching Friends all day. I can guarantee that 80% of those who read the article won't even remember it this time tomorrow.

[(Anonymous)]

Is not the Metro a good indicator, though - despite the fact that it is utterly unscientific - of what a not-inconsiderable number of people do think of bisexuals?
The two statements made in the Metro (either that bisexuality does not exist, or that it only exists in phases, and is entwined with unfaithfulness/a lack of self-knowledge) are two opinions shared by not only a large proportion of people who identify as heterosexuals, but also (as a full afternoon's discussion at the Oxford QR kicked home to me) amongst people who identify as homosexuals - and not only amongst the unwashed masses who read the Metro on their blue-collared commute, but amongst people who perhaps should be a little more enlightened?
Reading articles like this makes me wonder if organisations like Stonewall are perhaps going to have to concentrate their fire in the future to overcome what seems, at the moment, to be a much greater level of prejudice (at least in the UK) towards those people who self-identify as bisexual.
love C.H.
PS on a happier note, let's do lunch at some point this week or next?