just in case you didn’t fucking know
bisexual DOES NOT automatically infer attraction to only binary genders AND EVEN SAYING THAT IN THE FIRST PLACE IS BIPHOBIC AS HELL AND IGNORANT AS FUCK
HERE’S WHY FROM AN ACTUALLY BI PERSON
- bisexuality was not a word made by bisexuals, just as how homosexuality/gay, and lesbian/dyke, were not made by people who identify as that. it was reclaimed from institutions that sought to prove it was unnatural or an illness.
- further this focus on etymology is a consistent insult for bisexual, while everybody knows lesbians are not from lesbos and gays aren’t always happy. the origin of the terms are never used against monosexualities as a way to invalidate their personal relationship with their sexuality.
- the TWO referred to by bisexual is better described as being towards “sameness” and “otherness” — that a bisexual person is attracted in both directions along a continuum of gender presentations.
- this description of attraction as having something of a directional expression is important because the type of attraction or expression of attraction to different gender presentations feels different from each other, and is an expression of the experience of a bisexual person’s sense of attraction as different from that of a monosexual.
- claiming bisexuality does not include attraction to trans* and genderqueer identities FUCKING IGNORES EVERYONE WHO IS BISEXUAL WHO IS ALSO TRANS* OR GENDERQUEER
- here’s someone who says all of this and more, and better.
- fuck you if you still think bi is binary after reading this post
