Bisexual[Rant] I wish the original meanings of bisexual and pansexual was brought back

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[–]fuck_reddit 30 insightful - 10 fun30 insightful - 9 fun31 insightful - 10 fun -  (2 children)

We should just start a campaign that TQ+ people are horribly xenophobic for their butchering of Greek words (ie -phobia, homo, hetero, pan, bi, etc.) and that they should be more culturally sensitive to the original meanings of these words.

[–]Ko-hi 12 insightful - 5 fun12 insightful - 4 fun13 insightful - 5 fun -  (1 child)

Not if you don't want to sacrifice the word lesbian (people from Lesbos apparently don't like it).

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I'd like to see the statistics about that. I routinely hear the claim that people from Lesbos don't like the term 'lesbian' because of its association with gay women, but I've never seen this evidenced outside of a news article about a court case involving a whole three people who found the term insulting.

On the contrary, it seems that it's quite well-received by the locals. The bits that I can find about opinions is that it's seen very tongue-in-cheek and is even something that they're proud of (read: Sappho).

I think sane people have this wonderful capacity to contextually differentiate between words that have more than one meaning. Dumb-dumbs will, however, always find something irrational to be offended about.