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[–]yousaythosethingsFind and Replace "gatekeeping" with "having boundaries" 21 insightful - 1 fun21 insightful - 0 fun22 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The concept of just completely redefining an existing sexual orientation makes no sense whatsoever and is what reveals this farce to be disingenuous because one cannot simply prescribe sexual orientation. If you want to describe a different orientation, then get a new word. Why colonize and misappropriate an existing one? Then you just end up with people with different sexual orientations using the same word and that helps no one.

[–]xanditAGAB (Assigned Gay at Birth)[S] 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

"it’s also a great chance to clear up misunderstandings around the actual meaning of bisexuality — which is not, despite its name, tethered to the notion of a gender binary. In other words, rather than simply referring to being attracted to both men and women or to both sexes or genders, it’s all-encompassing, and about being drawn to various sexes and genders, including those who identify as non-binary or transgender.

“Pretty much every bi organization, since at least the ’80s,” Yockney says, “has seen bi as trans- and non-binary inclusive, perhaps because we break those binaries in other ways ourselves, too.”

Mackenzie Harte of GLAAD tells Yahoo Life, “The most important thing about defining any identity is respecting how individual people describe themselves. At GLAAD, our go-to definition for 'bisexual' is "anyone who has the capacity to form enduring physical, romantic, or emotional attractions to those of genders like their own and genders unlike their own.”

One widely accepted and complete definition of bisexuality, first published by activist Robyn Ochs in her 2005 anthology Getting Bi: Voices of Bisexuals Around the World, is this: “I call myself bisexual because I acknowledge that I have in myself the potential to be attracted — romantically and/or sexually — to people of more than one sex and/or gender, not necessarily at the same time, not necessarily in the same way and not necessarily to the same degree.”

In summation, she wrote, “For me, the bi in bisexual refers to the potential for attraction to people with genders similar to and different from my own.”

Ochs, in fact, flagged to Merriam-Webster.com its outdated, binary-specific definition of the word through a tweet in 2018, and eventually teamed up with GLAAD to lobby for an updated definition. A change was made, Ochs noticed by accident, as part of a “regularly scheduled update,” Peter Sokolowski, an editor-at-large for Merriam-Webster.com, told NBC News."

[–]FrostyNugsI'm allergic to nuts 17 insightful - 2 fun17 insightful - 1 fun18 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Oh my fucking god how do they manage to be this insufferable

[–]fuckupaddamsBisexual Terve 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Naw. I like men and I like women.

[–]Lesbianese 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

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