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[–]Femaleisnthateful 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Literally can't tell if that person is trolling, or not.

[–]DropTheT 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Theyre not. And notice how their "connection" the gay community isnt uplifting and empowering and celebrating homosexuals or same sex relationships? It's all about personal identification to them, not political like civil rights, gay marriage, our culture, bullying and confronting dehumanization. The closest thing she probably experienced as a same sex attraction was fetishizing some woman or touching a boob at 16 years old. It's about making it about her. And there are a lot of these people floating around waiting to paint gays and lesbians as evil for not "recognizing" them.

[–]PatsyStoneMaverique 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I think there's a disconnect between the gay community and the much larger outside world.

Straight people, especially political liberals, see same-sex attraction as something that needs to be sussed out and confessed. Any girl who exhibits lesbian tendencies as a teenager gets relentlessly harassed to "accept herself." The straight definition of gay is anything not purely gold star STRAIGHT.

Women's sexual decisions are often reflective of pressures from our environment rather than sincere self-actualization. It's always helpful to think "who's pushing her into this?" when women are behaving oddly about sex.

My two cents, obviously, basing this on personal experience though.

[–]DropTheT 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Although people like that exist, that type of pressure seems more of a problem with bisexual men . The "one drop rule" applies to them and the purity of their masculinity being tainted by homosexuality.

Even most bisexuals seem to acknowledge this but deeply misunderstand why it happens: "it seems everyone thinks bi people worship dick..bisexual women are slandered as dick worshippers who just say theyre bi for attention and bisexual men are slandered as just on their way to being gay men but theyre in denial".

In the most barbaric countries around the world, even 1 drop of "homosexuality" permanently taints a man even if he's 99% straight but lesbianism is just laughed out of the room as a joke and dismissed as a theory or hobby with no death penalty or punishment.

I've just noticed that the flood of these types of women that gays and lesbians were eager to align themselves with have a massive empathy gap that leads to conflict because one is about personal identification and socialization (fun) and the other is more concerned with civil rights and building a resilient community that can weather the tides of homophobia from heterosexuals since theyre not going away anytime soon.

One other thing i'll add is this: There is a power dynamic these types of people tend to leverage through homophobia and their privilege and it's so toxic and self destructive that it's now looping back on to them. A lot of bisexuals are in a "recruiting mode" where they have deep misunderstandings of what internalized homophobia is. They think it's self hatred but it also includes deep brainwashing by heterosexuals that you cant possibly be gay.

Bisexuals can be ruthless in their competition with the gays/lesbians they want to accept them in their community and try to use their vulnerabilities against them and it ends up ruining them in the end. One example is the "grooming" they do for recruitment by spreading rhetoric about fluid sexualities and even when older gays and lesbians pleaded with them to change their rhetoric, they just saw a weakness they could take advantage of. The gay community was there to help gay/lesbian kids overcome their homophobia and recognize that theyre gay...but the bisexuals are now holding on to a gigantic tsunami of confused, vulnerable gay kids they insist are bisexuals who, after stealing 10, maybe 15 years from them, will all be ticking time bombs and wil come out as gay and validate that bisexuality is just a stepping stone to full blown homosexuality. Instead of entering the community to nurture these vulnerable homosexuals, sometimes kids, they manipulated them to inflate their numbers and it'll just end up causing a massive "branding" problem for them since in the end no amount of grooming or propaganda can do stop them from realizing theyre gay.

I think most gays and lesbians know bisexuals arent the ones pulling the strings and creating all these pressures. Heterosexuals are. No matter how nice they are, heterosexuals are homophobic their core and maybe that's just natural for them. But even when you tell bisexuals that there are strings attached to their arms while theyre holding the knife, they usually just shrug and see it as another reason to not help or deflect responsibility.

It's a long comment, i know. But there was so much subtext within your reply that i wanted to address.