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

They can relate to the fallacious idea that sexuality is fluid, because it is fluid for bisexuals. It can be hard for them to sympathize with mono sexuals.

Agreed. I have also heard of the concept of "monosexual privilege" which seems extremely reductive and backwards to me. There are fewer LG, than B. When "lesbian" and even "gay" are so be heavily stigmatized anyway, how much privilege do I really have over a bisexual?? Homophobic people hate all LGB.

The other thing is that many homosexuals come out initially as bisexual due to homophobia particularly internalized homophobia. So possibly people with greater degrees of internalized homophobia and trauma around sexuality are more likely both to self harm, and to identify as bisexual.

Why, hello. This was me :)

Now I really want to see if there are more studies on this. I'll take a look.