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[–]reluctant_commenter 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

So let me leave you with this. It does not matter to me. Man/women. They're not the same. It's an apples/oranges comparison. People ask me who I prefer? I have my types, absolutely, yes. But it isn't the sex of a person that matters to me.

When everything else is equal, other things take hold. If we're not differentiating on sex, then, what? This is the most subversive form of bisexuality, because it does not concern itself with the sex binary.

That is really interesting... Thanks for sharing your perspective. Unfortunately all of the mainstream articles about bisexuality are stuffed with gender identity bullshit, so it is hard to get a clear sense of anything from those, lol. Nice to hear from people on this sub.

Treating bisexuality as a continuum of homosexuality and heterosexuality might not be the right answer.

Completely agree. The more I hear about it the less that seems like an accurate conceptualization. But I mostly avoid trying to find a better way of framing it and just instead, because I don't have the perspective/experience to suggest a better one.

Kinda feeling like a footnote today, and frankly?

Yeah? You doing okay dude? Feel free to vent if you need to :)

This isn't directed at you, RC, you've been wonderful, but... don't shit on us. There are more important issues at stake today.

That's kind of you :) yeah I have seen a decent amount of bisexual-bashing on LGB saidit subs... especially on s/lesbians towards bisexual women, I don't hang out there so much anymore lol. It seems almost ironic-- the TQ+ movement fosters a lot of stereotypes about bisexuals but there's a different set of stereotypes I sometimes see here.

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Feel free to vent if you need to :)

I should really preface my venting posts with "VENT FOLLOWS:"

Unfortunately all of the mainstream articles about bisexuality are stuffed with gender identity bullshit

Oh god yes. Some definition is I see banging around is: attraction to more than one gender. So if you're attracted to women and women with mullets, you're bisexual. I've actually seen some women pull the mullet off, and not in a chic way, more like a redneck way... anyhow.

Anyhow, to make a long story short, I'm sure if you ask 100 bi people, you'll get 100 answers on how they experience it.