Kevin comments on Undiscriminating Skepticism - Less Wrong

97 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 14 March 2010 11:23PM

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Comment author: Jack 16 March 2010 02:08:55AM 2 points [-]

straight men willing to identify as bisexual in solidarity with the gay rights movement

Interesting. I'm pretty sure my gay friends would find this offensive and patronizing.

Comment author: Kevin 16 March 2010 07:58:37AM *  2 points [-]

This isn't exactly very common (I can't think of a David Bowie bisexual other than David Bowie), and David Bowie was also all kinds of crazy and drugged up at the time. Saying he was gay was kind of stupid, but it certainly was not the dumbest thing he did under the influence of drugs. This is the guy who read some Nietzsche and then misunderstood it so dramatically that he wrote The Supermen. Good song, though.

Comment author: Jack 16 March 2010 08:11:02AM 2 points [-]

I'm willing to forgive David Bowie for nearly anything.

Comment author: Kevin 16 March 2010 10:17:52AM *  -1 points [-]

We could almost call Oh! You Pretty Things transhumanist pop.

I'd embed a copy of the song but Markdown doesn't allow, so anyone that wants to listen will have to google for it.