#bisexual discourse

little girls are hounded with the images of a husband and kids and a wedding with a perfect white dress and a handsome groom in a tux since their first day and we expect children to just not internalize that?? thats a lot to ask of them. and i think it does more good to ask people who are struggling to see themselves with a same sex partner why rather than accuse them of being bisexual "for the trend"

because frankly these days being bisexual isn't trendy. it gets you shunned by the community because you have "straight passing privilege" and shunned by homophobic people because you're just another queer to them. it is a lose-lose because you can't ever be pure enough for either side (which is a whole other issue)

and yeah some bisexual people, maybe especially women, do choose to marry an opposite sex partner. because it's safer in a lot of cases. that does not make them less bisexual or less queer. it just makes them a little less vulnerable to violence and sometimes shoves them deeper into the closet.

And I KNOW it’s just the internet, because when I’m in queer spaces irl people are normal. When I talk to people in my queer literature/history courses, they’re normal. When I talk to queer professors, they’re normal. I’m literally going to NYC Pride on Sunday and I’m half dreading it because of how stupid this sapphic discourse has been this year. Do you people know how to do anything other than argue about people’s sexualities??

These flags intrinsically label all queer people as part of the rainbow itself, and then they, even if inadvertently, "other" trans people by slapping the trans canton on the hoist side. It's literally saying "this flag represents all queer people... and also transgender people I guess". It isolates the T in LGBT (and also intersex people) as something that isn't actually part of the rainbow, and also makes it easier for TERFs and general "gay republican" types to simply remove the trans canton on the side and just use a rainbow flag. This is why I think that as an all encompassing, all inclusive "LGBTQIA+ Flag", we should be using one of these 3 classic options:

Do we also have an asexual few stripes in the canton? No! Why? Because they're included IN the rainbow, even though only one of the ace flag are in it. Do we also have a genderfluid few stripes in the canton? No! Why? Because they're included IN the rainbow, even though only a couple of the colors of the genderfluid flag are in it.

The rainbow flag doesn't directly represent the colors of every single gender and sexuality flag that there is, and it shouldn't; the rainbow flag represents the CONCEPT of a rainbow, something of multiple different colors, all different, but united and equal as one.

A lot of bi people that I've met have the opinion that bisexual is the only real mspec orientation, and that other mspec people who use different labels are secretly just bi.

Bisexuality isn't realer or more valid than pansexuality, omnisexuality, or any other mspec orientation.

Making This Post Is Already Bad Enough, But What Might Be Worse Is Just How Many People Are Supporting And Agreeing With It.

I Saw Some People Calling Bisexuals Sensitive Or Snowflakes For “Getting Mad At A Joke”, But Joke Implies That This Xweet Is Funny.

It’s Just Bigoted And Worrying…

Someone Wouldn’t Be Able To Say This About Gay Men Or Women And Get Away With It.

I'm so fucking tired of people pretending biphobia doesn't exist. Go sit on a cactus if you think biphobia is not real, if you think it's not that bad, as if oppression olympics ever helped anyone. Also if you argue same-sex and different-sex attraction are not interlinked in bisexuality imma bite you. BISEXUALITY ISN'T HALF GAY HALF STRAIGHT IT'S A UNIQUE ATTRACTION TO MULTIPLE GENDERS (every person experiences it slightly different too, also depending on their gender identity and if they're aro or ace.)

I'm so tired of the bisexual discourse every fucking year before pride. It's like clockwork. Every year.

You all wanna talk bi privilege? Fine. Let's talk about the mental health issues, financial problems, disproportionate lack of support, DV and SA; erasure, prejudice, and scapegoating bisexual people face then.

You wanna police who belongs in the community? Who uses what labels?? You really wanna be the police?? 🐖 You all wanna harass a 19 yo online who is discovering themselves and has terrible takes on sexuality? Most of us said dumb shit at that age. (This paragraph is unrelated to that previously mentioned Youtuber, I just saw all this going on on TikTok this week.)