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…
The definition of pansexual doesn’t get to reduce the definition of bisexual.
Heterosexuals and Homosexuals get to be attracted to non-binary people, so why would bisexuals (whose “bi” refers to same & different, as covered by homosexual and heterosexual) be so restricted?
Terms are allowed to overlap. I 100% support people preferring the term pansexual for themselves, but they don’t get to reduce the definition of bisexual as it applies to me in so doing.
Look, I am 44, a dinosaur by tumblr standards. When I was first figuring out my identity in the 1980s, “bisexual” WAS used reductively, and nobody would have said “heterosexuals and homosexuals get to be attracted to nonbinary people” because hardly anyone realized that “nonbinary” was even a thing.
I know better now. I’ve met people all over the gender spectrum, and I have a nonbinary kid who I will defend to the ends of the earth.
But I don’t always manage to keep up with every shift in terminology.
I was trying to call out the biphobia and erasure I saw in that interview, and point up the broadly inclusive queerness I see (and admire) in Penny Dreadful’s portrayal of Dorian Gray.
I used the terminology as best I knew how. I screwed up. I appreciate the education.
(via glamourweaver)
