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[–]oofreesouloo 21 insightful - 1 fun21 insightful - 0 fun22 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Hey! I really hope you're feeling more calm right now. Hugs <3 Not too long ago, I was discussing this topic and also how it affects the meaning of sexuality with like 5 people and they were ALL against me. I felt like a put up a good fight AND eventually I had two supporters of me as well, in particular one of them sticked up with me until the end. I know how overwhelming it can be. But do you know one thing that I noticed? At least 3 of them who were against me were bisexual. So, these 3 bisexual people were "enlighting" me, a lesbian and thus, a monossexual, HOW "reductive" I was being in "reducing people to genitals". That my "penis repulsion" was NOT normal. That I needed to UNLEARN IT. As you can imagine, me, a homosexual person who've tried to like several times guys before because I used to feel shameful of my sexuality, took it as something highly offensive and infuriating. I tried to maintain calm and focus on a healthy debate, but EXCUSE ME??????? And also, my supporters, guess what? Both monosexuals! Coincidence? I don't think so. One of them was a straight man and another, I'm pretty sure was a gay man but I think he didn't want to come out to protect himself (maybe he's not out). SO, why am I telling you this? I've noticed that MANY TRAs supporters tend to be either bisexuals or asexuals OR straight people who clearly aren't being so affected and just don't want to "look bad" and spit out the TWAW mantra without thinking. As you obviously know as a bisexual person, a bisexual person enjoy both sexes, and I realised in my opinion they tend to become more blind and not really realise how harmful this all thing is being to women AND homosexuals. Because for bisexual people it's obviously "easier" to not care if "a woman has a penis" or "a man has a vagina". I'm not saying ALL bi people are like this, and I DO know there are also bi people being called transphobic for this and YOU are the prime example (lmao) that not all bi people are like this. But let me just say it was quite laughable to TRY to explain to BI people what it's like to ONLY like ONE sex. You have no idea how confused they were, they SIMPLY couldn't comprehend AND I was the bigoted, hateful one. They were confusing everything, for example, sexual attraction with simply finding someone aesthetically pleasing (I can find men attractive but I won't ever find myself sexually attracted to them because I'm a lesbian). To THEM, this was highly confusing lmao!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The same applies to asexual people, they tend to be more "blind" as they don't feel sexual attraction towards no one at all. So this is to say - do not be too hard on yourself and well, just to let you know that perhaps you haven't thought about this as a bi person and it might help you not to take it so personal. And I really hope none of this has come as offensive to you, and I truly admire bi people who are sensitive on these issues, and everyone else of course.

[–]Criticalofgender[S] 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Hi! Thank you so much for your comment! I noticed it as well! Monosexuals tend to agree more with the gender critical part! Man, it really affected me because I'm really hard on myself because of liking girls, and now that just because a man calls himself a woman as it is the same and ugh, I can't. I talked to my bisexual friend and apologized for hurting my feelings, but dude, I'm just remembering some parts of the discussion when they told me that I didn't believe in trans people (lol), when I said that trans women are still men. Anyways, I put up a good fight till the end, but I wished I wouldn't have reacted so emotionally, although it was the only time when they took me seriously!

[–]SanityIsGC 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

First of all your emotionality may have been a much needed wake up call to your friends who seemed to have drifted off to ideological LaLaLand. Transgenderism is literally a fake world so to have someone act with real emotion must have been a shock. What I would be interested knowing is how many of those people criticising you have sex with transgendered partners? How many actually walk the walk and not just talk the talk?

[–]oofreesouloo 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's totally fine, don't be too hard on yourself. You were very brave :)