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[–]motss-pb 41 insightful - 3 fun41 insightful - 2 fun42 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 children)

It's a fad. The reason the most dramatic increase happened in bisexual numbers is because bisexuality is the easiest sexuality for straight people to colonize. I personally witnessed this within my group of friends where 4/5 of the girls (all in heterosexual relationships) started identifying as bisexual, pansexual, asexual somewhere around 2012-2015 when the majority public opinion on gay rights in the US had shifted. One of the girls started identifying as a lesbian after her man dumped her. Now she's back to asexual. They like to get dressed up in the colors of their respective identity flags and treat pride like it's a cosplay convention. Of course, they love the word queer, they're "gay as f--k", and they hate conventional gays like Buttigieg because he's not queer enough. And if you like JK Rowling, "get f---ed because you're not part of the LGBTQ community". It's funny to watch them make the gay rights movement all about them and whine about their nonexistent oppression when just 10 years ago they were all jokingly calling each other "gay" and "f*g" as an insult.

[–]reluctant_commenter 33 insightful - 1 fun33 insightful - 0 fun34 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

bisexuality is the easiest sexuality for straight people to colonize.

Agreed. I think it's important to keep this in mind; many of the pro-TRA instances of homophobia that are supposedly done by bisexuals, are really just done by straight people LARPing as bisexuals because they think bisexuality (and same-sex attraction in general) is a choice and one that they fetishize....

[–]MezozoicGayoldschool gay 25 insightful - 9 fun25 insightful - 8 fun26 insightful - 9 fun -  (0 children)

all about them

Today there much more straight people in LGBT movement than homosexual and bisexual combined.

While Stonewall is keeping on adding new "most oppressed groups": https://twitter.com/stonewalluk/status/1363843446616719363

Today "aromantics" are the most oppressed, aromantics are people who can have lots of sexual activity, but are not creating any romantic bonds. As someone noted in comments: "people who dump others after 1 night, serial rapists and maniacs - are all more oppressed than lesbians and gays in Stonewall eyes".

[–]BEB[S] 24 insightful - 4 fun24 insightful - 3 fun25 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

It is a fad. I saw it in a young lesbian friend's peer group when they all turned gender fluid and then transgender together.

[–]PenseePansyBio-Sex or Bust 17 insightful - 1 fun17 insightful - 0 fun18 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Do you see guys doing this as much as girls? My impression is that it's more the latter, probably due to the way biphobia works: "bi man" = gay; "bi woman" = straight (just "uninhibited" enough to provide dudes with an MFF threesome!). Cuz nobody is actually bisexual, of course!-- we don't exist, after all.

Therefore straight women playing this game... don't really change anything; they're still understood as straight. Whereas straight guys lose their coveted het-status, and for what? Nobody believes 'em, and now straight chicks won't fuck 'em anymore, either! (Since, for guys, it's the "one drop rule" where dick is concerned-- if you've ever liked dick even just a LITTLE TEENSY BIT... dick is all you like, forever and ever, world without end. Doesn't work the same way with pussy, somehow, for EITHER sex.) Truly a lose/lose situation.