NPR is on in my office. An announcer just said something like “Eleanor Roosevelt, now known to be bisexual . . . blah blah blah.” I didn’t hear the end of it. I hadn’t know that she was ‘know to be bisexual’ so it was too much of a shock to catch the end of the sentence. I’ve always felt sorry for her because of FDR’s ‘known’ mistress and his public rejection of his wife. Now I feel better for her. Maybe she did have some love after all. Yeah, Eleanor.
Please leave a comment with your first 50 words on the topic “bi.”
First 50 Words - Prompts for Writing Practice 
Bi all depends on how you look at it. Bi is a heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element usually recovered as a by-product from ores of other metals. Further, the prefix “bi” means 2. Biannually is twice a year. Bimonthly, twice a month. Bisexually should mean what then?
Should it mean 2 sexes? Man or woman. Either way. Reciprocal, universal, all seasons, no holds barred. Think we need to go beyond what’s on the surface. A man is a man only on the surface. Deep down nobody knows. He could be a woman in his past life and had an incomplete transmigration. His outside switched but his inside was too slow to catch up. So he got stuck between two sexes. He looks like a man but feels like a woman. He is attracted to men because inside he is actually a woman. Makes sense? You can change the gender. It works both ways.
So it’s confirmed that Eleanor was bisexual. So what? I’m sure many in her time or earlier were the same, too, they just didn’t have the courage to show it.
We live in a far more permissive age now. Far too permissive, sometimes, to the detriment of many.
See, bisexuality or homosexuality is an anomaly. And I say this without judgement. It’s not how it’s meant to be. It goes again the grain of Nature. It’s like Down Syndrome or Autism. It’s not something that should be actively promoted or defended. It is, of course, also wrong to be discriminated against.
I sometimes find it disturbing that there is so much clamoring for rights among the gays and homosexuals to the extent of demanding same sex marriage legislation. I am not against minority rights. And I am not prepared to enter into a debate with anyone on this. Just stating my point. Same sex marriage is unproductive save for the hedonistic indulgence of two individuals.
“Bi people are greedy” I told the lady I smoke with at work., who also happens to have an open relationship with her boy and girlfriend.
“And why’s that?”
“Cause you really just want a good romping anywhere, anytime, by anyone. That’s double the chance for sex, you selfish thing.”
Her mouth hung open, speechless. I always liked to shut people down like that.
Swinging both ways
It was out of respect to his wife that he slept with men. She was the only woman he loved. Playing around would cheapen her and tarts soon want sticky fingers. Better were men, strangers, unkissed, undressed, and handled with emotion left in the discarded clothes.
Love has many voices.