Charles Blow Sexual Fluidity And Attraction

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Sexual fluidity and attraction is a hard subject to touch on. This idea is very new in the grand scheme of things. So since it is such a new idea, people don’t really know where to fall with this new idea. There are so many little niches for all different types of people. The people who this article is about also come from all walks of life. So to say it simply people are confused on what to say to people of this ideology, and on how to react to this conversation of sexual fluidity.
Charles M. Blow in his article Sexual Fluidity and Attraction does a good job of showing the inside look at this discussion. Mr. Blow himself is bisexual. Stating in the article,
“... identifying as bisexual because in addition to being attracted to women, I could also be attracted to men.” So Mr. Blow is closely related to the topic, so I didn’t expect to hear many counter arguments to his position on sexual fluidity and attraction. So I looked to the comments. Thinking if I was going to find any good argument against sexual fluidity and attraction it would be in the comments.
When I got to the comments I was delightfully surprised with what I found there. I found of two major
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That when it comes to the argument/ conversation about sexual fluidity and attraction will not see any true opposing argument to the topic. This is because there aren’t really any opposing argument to be had. All I saw in the comment sections were little jabs at Blow’s use of Miley as a ethos tactic. So when you have a group of people who can’t find anything better than jabbing at small bits of your writing, people know they are on the wrong side of the opinion. This showed me human 's nature to, in a sense, be immature when people know they are wrong about a certain opinion. Reading this article and the comments really opened my eyes to this topic. It also showed me how the general public expresses themselves when they are uncomfortable with a certain

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