goes to read the article Brenda linked to.

Okay, yes, that's DUMB. Although perhaps it's just that the article is too brief and biased, but it certainly sounds dumb.

The researchers asked the men about their sexual desires and rated them on a scale from 0 to 6 on sexual orientation, with 0 to 1 indicating heterosexuality, and 5 to 6 indicating homosexuality. Bisexuality was measured by scores in the middle range.

Seated alone in a laboratory room, the men then watched a series of erotic movies, some involving only women, others involving only men.

Using a sensor to monitor sexual arousal, the researchers found what they expected: gay men showed arousal to images of men and little arousal to images of women, and heterosexual men showed arousal to women but not to men.

If this is how they're judging? I'd register as a gay man. Well, unless they were showing Bound. Then we'd be talking 50/50. Talk about your super simplistic and reductive attempts at representing sexuality, though - sheesh!

("Please accept these burnt offerings").

This would charm the heck out of me.

Much relief ~ma to Nora from a veteran of the UTI. Glarg. Awful feeling. Heavy on the aw HELL, not again.

gmail is working for me.

my dog got out the front door this morning and led DH on a merry chase, so now he is banned from the bedroom during the day. Um, the dog is. DH could theoretically go into the bedroom if he wasn't, you know, at work. Anyway, this means Walter (aforementioned dog) will not be able to crawl under the bed when it starts thundering, as it is supposed to do all day. Poor dog. I hope he figures out he can still hide under the coffee table.

If this is how they're judging? I'd register as a gay man. Well, unless they were showing Bound. Then we'd be talking 50/50. Talk about your super simplistic and reductive attempts at representing sexuality, though - sheesh!

Plus they recruited their teeny tiny sample from ads in gay newspapers - skew much? And a third - a third - of their sample gave them no data at all, which of course "did not affect the outcome of the study."

And while I personally find the Kinsey scale to be pretty resonant, am I wrong in thinking that in scientific circles it's not considered usable?

What really gets me is not that people are doing crappy research, but that the Times is putting this stuff front and center. As beth said

so the conclusion to the story brenda linked to is : we don't understand bisexuality. actually, as you read further - we don't understand sexuality - esp the part where physical brain and other organ interact.

but you have to get pretty far into it, and bring a fair bit of your own understanding of useful methodolgy, to get that. Slate linked it (uncritically) too.

-t, I will try not to startle Walter, seeing as how he is your dog, and therefore a Buffista by proxy.

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ION, all you new mothers who are diapering your babies, are bad, improperly attached, and completely inept. Good, caring parents of any quality at all, are now toilet training themeselves newborns. I read it on the internet(s), so it must be true.

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Erin, what about Julep, to go along with Gimlet? Take your ADs. And your anti-allergy stuff. Invest in swiffer cloths, or one of those wash-and-reuse magnetic dusting cloths.

I am a horrid environmentalist because I cling to my swiffers. There's something so relieving about seeing all that dust and crap go into the trash, rather than into the wash. There are nice things to be said about old houses, like oak flooring and wide millwork window and door casings and real plaster walls. But they produce more dust than you'd think possible, just by existing, and retrofitting can only go so far to help. I know I should vacuum more often, but my eyes are red and I'm sneezy for about 36 hours afterward each time, and I put it off because of that. I shouldn't.

Yay! for Tom and Nora settling in.

Toto just got his very own e-mail address. He has a silly mom.

we are settling in... with Swiffers!

Beej, thanks for the solidarity. It was an annoying discovery on the Sunday morning of a holiday weekend. Fortunately, I had enough OTC and prescription AZO Standard and took it faithfully to get to today, so the discomfort was minimized. Have a dr's appt at noon for my anti-b's.

Oh, way to go Tom and Nora with breaking the back of unpacking! That's another thing I didn't do at all this weekend. Everytime I thought I might unpack a little, I took a nap instead. It's not a sustainable lifesttyle, but it's so pleasant while I can get away with it.

Beverly, you may be filling landfills, but you're saving water. And surely those swiffer things biodegrade pretty fast. They, um, look like they probably would. The Sierra Club's gonna stop sending me stickers when they ask for money, aren't they?

The Sierra Club's gonna stop sending me stickers when they ask for money, aren't they?

Heh, you wish!