In Defense Of Cynthia Nixon
Kinsey Scale, via Exceptional Primate There has been a huge outcry regarding Cynthia Nixon's recent statements about her sexuality and the "choices" she has made. She said being gay, at this point in her life, was a choice that she made. Many people have condemned her for giving "ammunition" to the enemies of gay rights. In the famous words of taxidermist Chuck Testa.... "NOPE". Regardless of what we do or say, the people who hate us and work to deny us our basic rights will always find "ammunition" to use against us, whether it exists or not. They don't care about facts and, in this case, Cynthia is correct with her facts...which only apply to her experience. We are not all born either exclusively gay or exclusively straight...remember the Kinsey scale? Yes, some of us are 1's or 6's during most of our lives, but the vast majority of humans lie somewhere in the area we are afraid to acknowledge. It's called bise...