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[sebastienne]

Thanks, everyone who's written to the Metro - but I'm beginning to worry that the health@ukmetro.co.uk is a dustbin email address. Would you all mind terribly forwarding your responses to features@ukmetro.co.uk ? That is the address from which I got the snotty response, and I think that Kieran Meeke is the one who needs to hear all your witty and wonderful arguments.

Much love to all of you! I've actually been moved by the response you've all shown to this. Which makes me soppy, I suppose... oh well.

ETA: My reply to him:

cc: His Editor (thanks for that suggestion, folks!)

Hi Kieran,

I'm sorry, I admit it was too extreme of me to assert that you told any proportion of your readership that they did not exist. I agree that any discerning reader would be able to dismiss Dr Rahman's opinions. However, I have encountered too much bigotry and ignorance to have as much faith in the general public as you seem to. Biphobia is a very real phenomenon(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biphobia), and bisexuality suffers many stereotypes (greediness, indecision, denial) from which homosexuality is free. After this article, someone who already holds even mildly biphobic attitudes will be able to add "but you don't really exist" (Dr Rahmann) and "you just go through straight and gay phases" (Prof Weeks)to their arsenal of ignorance.

I would also like to express how inappropriate I found your response. Rather than addressing the points raised in my e-mail, you were flippant and rude. Even if you disagreed with the thrust of my coresspondance, I feel that dismissing my criticism without consideration and in such a disrespectful manner was uncalled for.

I always through that reporting "the opinions of one person" is not, as you claim, "what newspapers do". I was under the impression that newspapers attempted to present news, that is to say, measured and balanced reports of what is going on in the world. While you did, indeed, present a balanced view of whether or not there is a gay gene, I feel that your treatment of bisexuality was far from balanced, and that this issue requires further consideration.

regards,

Emma Lewis

Comments

[vampire-kitten.livejournal.com]

Fabulous :) Just like you.

[the-tavaro.livejournal.com]

I feel that by the end of this we'll all have this polite-but-enraged style down to a fine art.

[chains-of-irony.livejournal.com]

Ooh, have been on holiday and missed all this intrigue. Idiots. Pity though, I always liked the Metro because it has Nemi in it. Nice style; you sure told her! Oh, and on that note. I TOLD MY MUM!! We were on the beach and I just told her that I like boys AND girls, and she was a bit 'surely it's all just a phase' at first, (and there was me thinking she might already know...) but she's happy now. Here's hoping she doesn't read that article and have her previous opinions backed up by 'professionals.'

Oh, and they like your old green hair and corset at work! I was showing the old women I work with my university photos, and they pointed you out in the photos of the Wyrdies at Intrusion.

xxx