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[–]reluctant_commenter[S] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

There is one obvious one: people thinking bisexuality is fake. My family growing up straight up believed bisexuals are all making it up, and are either gay or straight. "Those people are just saying they're attracted to women for the attention", etc.

That is a different issue though. My point was just that people often figure out what sexual orientation they are after mistakenly thinking they are a different one, and that this is a benign reason to misuse the terms. That and not understanding that "gay" means homosexual only-- the term is often used as a blanket, and I'm not sure it ever should be.

[–]VioletRemi 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

In my experience it is other way around. Everyone is thinking that lesbians does not exist and we are always bisexuals.

[–]Astrid2448 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Lots of people don't even think straight women exist. They pressure them to try sleeping with women, too.

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

I think it's less they legit think women are all bisexual and more they don't give a shit what women say about their own sexuality. I've seen legit discussions on the internet where men honestly believed that no women were attracted to men. So then straight/bi women came into the thread and said yes we are attracted to them and these dudes said they didn't believe them. See also: refusing to believe lesbians are real, refusing to believe a woman could want sex in general