And they're impressively complete and diverse. This is someone who makes a living as a psychologist, there's no way in heck she doesn't cite her sources. Consulting the Notes will disabuse anyone of the notion that she's just makin' it up. That she is a psychologist, with a special interest in criminality, makes me believe her research chops are top-notch even if I don't know what sources she's used. That book existed for me it gave me information I'd never have found otherwise (though it was written in 1970 and was very much of its time) and the newcomers to adolescence and adulthood need the same help I found. It didn't, but at least I found something to help me try on an identity that just does not exist in pop culture. "Maybe that fits," I thought after reading it. When I was a teen and wondering what to call myself ("faggot" wasn't gonna cut it for internal monologues, but it's accurate) I found a book called Loving Them Both: A Study of Bisexuality by Colin MacInnes, son of Angela Thirkell and her first husband. Learning about bisexuality is not the challenge it was in the past. That does mean, however, learning what those identities are as well as what they want to be called. It's a giant gift to our descendants to recognize, affirm, and support their outside-our-experience identities. Thinking outside binaries is the great revolution in consciousness of this century. It's an equal to "gay" or "lesbian" or "straight" (which term I dislike because its connotation is "as opposed to 'bent'" and that doesn't thrill me) not a way-station on a road heading one way or the other. What Author Shaw does is build a good case, based on research and science, for the existence and validity of the identity "bisexual" as a separate thing. When that erasure comes at you from all sources and angles, including the one with a letter for your identity in its public face, that can feel disheartening and rejecting.
And bisexuality, being by its nature focused on sexual activity, is simply not an acceptable identity in the heteronormative prescriptivist world.Īuthor Shaw, who also includes a lot of other identities in her discussion, corrects this misperception with an assertion that bisexuality is in fact an identity and to diminish that is to indulge in bi erasure. No one ever explains to you, "oh, I'm straight" because we assume they are unless they make a point of not being. And that's what Author Shaw has set out to correct.that sense of non-inclusion that heteronormative society, whether straight or gay, attaches to labeled people. When one says "bisexual" without the modifier "man/male" the presumption is one's referring to a woman/female. My Review: I've contended publicly that bisexuality is the disrespected stepchild of the QUILTBAG community. I RECEIVED A DRC FROM THE PUBLISHER VIA NETGALLEY. Real Rating: 4.5* of five, rounded up for the "Bidentity List"
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