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		<title>By: anonymous coward</title>
		<link>http://www.alisoncummins.com/2007/09/23/im-it/comment-page-1/#comment-42</link>
		<dc:creator>anonymous coward</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2007 16:45:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>With respect to #4, I have intimate understanding of which you speak. When I first read this entry, I said nothing altho the rational explanation for my attraction to you pleased me.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>With respect to #4, I have intimate understanding of which you speak. When I first read this entry, I said nothing altho the rational explanation for my attraction to you pleased me.</p>
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		<title>By: Sharon</title>
		<link>http://www.alisoncummins.com/2007/09/23/im-it/comment-page-1/#comment-40</link>
		<dc:creator>Sharon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Sep 2007 16:15:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi Alison,
I got your url from Anne, glad I did, you&#039;re such a great writer!
I can totally relate to your dilemma regarding the bi/lesbian thing, seeing that I&#039;m in the exact same situation as you. Minus the marriage part. (What do you like about it, by the way?)
It would be great to hear from you, now you have my email address.
Sharon</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Alison,<br />
I got your url from Anne, glad I did, you&#8217;re such a great writer!<br />
I can totally relate to your dilemma regarding the bi/lesbian thing, seeing that I&#8217;m in the exact same situation as you. Minus the marriage part. (What do you like about it, by the way?)<br />
It would be great to hear from you, now you have my email address.<br />
Sharon</p>
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		<title>By: alison</title>
		<link>http://www.alisoncummins.com/2007/09/23/im-it/comment-page-1/#comment-37</link>
		<dc:creator>alison</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2007 10:13:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Karen,

Thank you! You play very nice, so this was a nice one to do.

Very good question as to why I called myself a lesbian instead of bisexual. Of course it&#039;s partly the shock value but also partly &lt;del&gt;political&lt;/del&gt; wishful thinking. For the fifteen or so years I was living with women, I acknowledged myself as a lesbian of the bisexual variety - that is, I had a history with men and was a lesbian by choice. &#039;Lesbian&#039; meaning that my life was woman-centred; it wasn&#039;t just about my sex life, but about my priorities in my life as a whole. Some lesbians have no choice in the matter, but I did and I chose women. 

Now that I am living with a man and am living as het a life as anyone could imagine, I don&#039;t like to call myself bisexual any more. Women in public, primary relationships with men who call themselves bisexual make me think of swingers who treat other women as mere adjuncts to their sex lives. While on the one hand I know I&#039;m not being fair, that this is prejudice, that the reality is more complex, I still want to distance myself from the stereotype. 

It would be just as accurate and ego-syntonic to call myself straight. I do sometimes, but not completely happily. Just as I&#039;m not completely happy about calling myself lesbian or bisexual. So, I pick the label that&#039;s most interesting in the circumstances, or I sidestep the issue by talking about my current and my exes rather than labels for myself. Unfortunately I am still of the old-school politics that attaches importance to the label. Whatever. I&#039;m not complaining: having this breadth of experience and identity is definitely in the category of high-class problems.  

Luc,

La vie est un bien à ne pas gaspiller, dont on ne peut nier la futilité. Donc la misanthropie. Mais comme c&#039;est tout ce qu&#039;on a, on n&#039;a le choix que de l&#039;embrasser. Donc l&#039;attirance envers les animaux qui tiennent à la vie et les appétits qu&#039;elle entraîne sans juger. 

Grrr. Le français doit être élégant. (Je pense souvent au contraste entre « À chaque jour suffit sa peine » et &quot;Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.&quot;) Je souffres quand je le massacres.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Karen,</p>
<p>Thank you! You play very nice, so this was a nice one to do.</p>
<p>Very good question as to why I called myself a lesbian instead of bisexual. Of course it&#8217;s partly the shock value but also partly <del>political</del> wishful thinking. For the fifteen or so years I was living with women, I acknowledged myself as a lesbian of the bisexual variety &#8211; that is, I had a history with men and was a lesbian by choice. &#8216;Lesbian&#8217; meaning that my life was woman-centred; it wasn&#8217;t just about my sex life, but about my priorities in my life as a whole. Some lesbians have no choice in the matter, but I did and I chose women. </p>
<p>Now that I am living with a man and am living as het a life as anyone could imagine, I don&#8217;t like to call myself bisexual any more. Women in public, primary relationships with men who call themselves bisexual make me think of swingers who treat other women as mere adjuncts to their sex lives. While on the one hand I know I&#8217;m not being fair, that this is prejudice, that the reality is more complex, I still want to distance myself from the stereotype. </p>
<p>It would be just as accurate and ego-syntonic to call myself straight. I do sometimes, but not completely happily. Just as I&#8217;m not completely happy about calling myself lesbian or bisexual. So, I pick the label that&#8217;s most interesting in the circumstances, or I sidestep the issue by talking about my current and my exes rather than labels for myself. Unfortunately I am still of the old-school politics that attaches importance to the label. Whatever. I&#8217;m not complaining: having this breadth of experience and identity is definitely in the category of high-class problems.  </p>
<p>Luc,</p>
<p>La vie est un bien à ne pas gaspiller, dont on ne peut nier la futilité. Donc la misanthropie. Mais comme c&#8217;est tout ce qu&#8217;on a, on n&#8217;a le choix que de l&#8217;embrasser. Donc l&#8217;attirance envers les animaux qui tiennent à la vie et les appétits qu&#8217;elle entraîne sans juger. </p>
<p>Grrr. Le français doit être élégant. (Je pense souvent au contraste entre « À chaque jour suffit sa peine » et &#8220;Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.&#8221;) Je souffres quand je le massacres.</p>
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		<title>By: Luc</title>
		<link>http://www.alisoncummins.com/2007/09/23/im-it/comment-page-1/#comment-36</link>
		<dc:creator>Luc</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2007 22:27:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Intéressant ton billet Alison.

-- C&#039;est triste la vie de ton ex. Alors pourquoi, veux-tu ben me dire pourquoi, de l&#039;imaginer ainsi, seule, pauvre, déprimée, avec ce chien malade qu&#039;elle a elle-même choisi et qui maintenant pisse partout, l&#039;imaginer ainsi m&#039;a fait sourire malgré moi.

-- « If you think you want to help people it’s just because you haven’t met enough of them. » Voilà qui est bien dit. Moi-même, plus je vieillis, plus je deviens misanthrope. Je vois autour de moi des gens gavés de confort, de biens matériels, et pourtant toujours insatisfaits, des gens infantilisés, intellectuellement paresseux, incapables de penser par eux-mêmes, pétris de sentiments convenus qui n&#039;exprime qu&#039;une hideuse autosatifaction, des gens, enfin, d&#039;une lâcheté que je ne peux plus voir autrement que criminelle. Bref, des ordinaires. Des gens comme moi.

Mais, d&#039;un autre côté, il y a tant de souffrance. Comment ne pas en être soi-même heurté ? J&#039;ai encore à l&#039;esprit cette phrase : « Au détour des rues, les patrouilles de la MINUSTAH tombent sur d&#039;immenses terrains vagues remplis d&#039;ordures où fouillent ensemble les grands-mères et les porcs. »

-- Je comprends le bien que peuvent faire les animaux de compagnie à leurs maîtres. Mais, au coeur même de ce bien, qui peut être considérable, il y a tout de même un mal qui n&#039;est pas considérable mais qui, multipliés par le nombre d&#039;animaux, finit par donner le symptôme d&#039;un malaise social. « Perhaps without them I would be more driven to seek human companionship. I can’t know. » Les gens n&#039;ont pas tous cette lucidité.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Intéressant ton billet Alison.</p>
<p>&#8211; C&#8217;est triste la vie de ton ex. Alors pourquoi, veux-tu ben me dire pourquoi, de l&#8217;imaginer ainsi, seule, pauvre, déprimée, avec ce chien malade qu&#8217;elle a elle-même choisi et qui maintenant pisse partout, l&#8217;imaginer ainsi m&#8217;a fait sourire malgré moi.</p>
<p>&#8211; « If you think you want to help people it’s just because you haven’t met enough of them. » Voilà qui est bien dit. Moi-même, plus je vieillis, plus je deviens misanthrope. Je vois autour de moi des gens gavés de confort, de biens matériels, et pourtant toujours insatisfaits, des gens infantilisés, intellectuellement paresseux, incapables de penser par eux-mêmes, pétris de sentiments convenus qui n&#8217;exprime qu&#8217;une hideuse autosatifaction, des gens, enfin, d&#8217;une lâcheté que je ne peux plus voir autrement que criminelle. Bref, des ordinaires. Des gens comme moi.</p>
<p>Mais, d&#8217;un autre côté, il y a tant de souffrance. Comment ne pas en être soi-même heurté ? J&#8217;ai encore à l&#8217;esprit cette phrase : « Au détour des rues, les patrouilles de la MINUSTAH tombent sur d&#8217;immenses terrains vagues remplis d&#8217;ordures où fouillent ensemble les grands-mères et les porcs. »</p>
<p>&#8211; Je comprends le bien que peuvent faire les animaux de compagnie à leurs maîtres. Mais, au coeur même de ce bien, qui peut être considérable, il y a tout de même un mal qui n&#8217;est pas considérable mais qui, multipliés par le nombre d&#8217;animaux, finit par donner le symptôme d&#8217;un malaise social. « Perhaps without them I would be more driven to seek human companionship. I can’t know. » Les gens n&#8217;ont pas tous cette lucidité.</p>
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		<title>By: Karen Little</title>
		<link>http://www.alisoncummins.com/2007/09/23/im-it/comment-page-1/#comment-35</link>
		<dc:creator>Karen Little</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2007 17:25:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thank you for playing with!

I really enjoyed this post - it was actually quite interesting: these things usually aren&#039;t.

Wouldn&#039;t being married to a man but actually preferring women make you bisexual?

One of the things I miss most about home is my dogs. My boyfriend and I are moving in together next year and I was really hoping we could get a place with a garden so I could get a dog, but it would probably be irresponsible to do so because I have absolutely no idea of what I&#039;m going to do with the next ten years of my life. So now I just love other peoples&#039; dogs.

Thanks again for playing...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you for playing with!</p>
<p>I really enjoyed this post &#8211; it was actually quite interesting: these things usually aren&#8217;t.</p>
<p>Wouldn&#8217;t being married to a man but actually preferring women make you bisexual?</p>
<p>One of the things I miss most about home is my dogs. My boyfriend and I are moving in together next year and I was really hoping we could get a place with a garden so I could get a dog, but it would probably be irresponsible to do so because I have absolutely no idea of what I&#8217;m going to do with the next ten years of my life. So now I just love other peoples&#8217; dogs.</p>
<p>Thanks again for playing&#8230;</p>
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