so i get a telephone survey last night. about san francisco stuff. so usually there is a question about sexual orientation at the end for statistics, which is an important identifier when you want to know what the gay community thinks, especially in san francisco. so they always add on a question about how people identify themselves. but last night's survey had the following way of asking that question: "do you consider yourself heterosexual, bisexual, lesbian, queer, somewhat gay, or completely gay?" now, 'somewhat gay' and 'completely gay'. really? are those new terms? now i know what the surveyors were probably trying to get at but this isn't really the best language they should have used and it was just hilarious on its face. but, that's the newly arrived status of being asked questions about sexual orientation in surveys when most of the non-gay world has no idea how to address us. it's rather stupid that they didn't ask around to get better language than that.