Mick Mick McMick McMick wrote: <<No one ever accused Rob Wratten of the Field Mice of being gay, and the Field Mice even wrote a song called Sensitive.>> No one has ever accused Rob Wratten of being gay because nearly all his songs are about loving/not loving women. He wrote "Sensitive" but that is about being, erm, sensitive, not about fancying men. In the notable exceptions in the Wratten song library are "Song Six", again about being a sensitive male in this brutal world; "This Love Is Not Wrong", about any non-straight romance generally, but includes the line "Says one woman to another"; and "So Said Kay" which is about two women again. I can not think of any others. Stuart M. wrote "Seeing Other People" using the first person, putting himself in the situation of "practicing" kissing other boys. The use of first person is going to lead people to assume that this really happened to Stuart. Of course, no one assumes that Stuart really met a major that he could not see eye to eye with. Although, I believe that Stuart conceded that some situation like the one in "SOP" really happened, how do we know it did? He is a song_writer_ afterall. If Rob Wratten were to write a song about kissing a man, then he probably would be asked if he were gay (and what would Annemari say!). Well, my original point was that Stuart's sexuality is his own personal business; he has the right not to tell since it is his own life. I often think that the entire notion of sexuality is bunk anyway; those things can change in a person's life. Too much importance is placed on whom one wants to love. I just want to hear songs about love; songs that make me tremble; songs that make me want to shed a tear. "If the sun going down makes me want to cry, why should I not like the way I am?" --the Field Mice, "Sensitive" Living and loving Matthew ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------