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[–]throwaway999 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I see this hypothetical het-but-pretending-to-be-bi boogeyman brought up everywhere and I've never met one. You're probably just thinking of het-leaning bis, who will often use homosexuals for sex and then fuck off because they desire the het marriage lifestyle. Of course, this does not describe all het-leaning bis, which are a huge group of people, but this is a recurring pattern due to internalized homophobia (see: heteroromantic bisexuals).

[–]venusflytrap 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

People just don't like bisexuals. I've noticed.

[–]throwaway999 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The hypothetical het-but-pretending-to-be-bi boogeyman actually stands in defense of bisexuals. It basically exists to say: a bi person didn't do something bad! A bi person didn't cause harm to LGB! A bi person didn't defend TRA ideology using rhetoric created by bisexuals which only remotely makes sense to bisexuals (specifically talking about the "sexuality is fluid" myth, but there are many others, such as: "genitals != gender", "who cares what genitals your partner has, bigot")! That person isn't bi! They're really straight but pretending to be bi for attention! Instead of accepting the possibility that a bi person really did do a bad thing.