a-little-bi-furious replied to your quote “Would you say, then, that what we’re seeing with him is outside of…”
this was going so well until you said bisexuals restrict themselves to the binary :/ non-binary bisexual here, your definition is wrong, biphobic and transphobic…if a person’s sexual orientation (as opposed to their gender identity) includes more types of people than fit into the male/female binary, how is that not pansexual rather than bisexual?
I identified as bisexual until I looked back at my history and saw how many gender-nonconforming folks I’d been attracted to/involved with, and decided “pansexual” was a better descriptor.
…I think we may be using different words to describe the same thing.
Bisexual = attraction to same and different genders. Not just two genders. Some bisexual people, myself included, are more comfortable with the term for a number of reasons. It could be because we feel attracted to different genders in different ways and feel that the term “pansexual” does not accurately reflect our preferences. Granted, there is a lot of overlap, and it really comes down to which term the individual is most comfortable with. It’s the same reason some people just go with “queer.”
Thank you. I didn’t know that the duality of the “bi” prefix is now “same and different genders” rather than “male and female”. I’ve been LIVING this since the 1980s and sometimes it’s hard to keep up with language shifts.
I am 100% in favor of using “queer” for myself and as an umbrella term, but I know some people hate it, so I’m cautious about how I use it other than in reference to myself.
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