#rnortal

You're a homophobe

so r u implying that women who once dated men can't be lesbians?

I have no idea on what planet you got that implication but this was VERY OBVIOUSLY about the prevalent and hurtful bisexual erasure that has gone on, currently goes on, and will likely continue going on in the LBGTQ+ community

this is not and never was intended to be a post trying to say women who once dated men can’t be lesbians? there is a very obvious section in this post that says “DID YOU KNOW THE ONLY WOMEN WHO LOVE WOMEN ARE ALL LESBIANS?” like, wtf, where did you get anything other than frustration at bi and pan erasure out of this? this was about the fACT THAT EVERYONE IMMEDIATELY LABELS SAPPHIC WOMEN ‘LESBIANS’ AND I AM SICK AND TIRED OF HAVING MY ENTIRE IDENTITY ERASED BY MONOSEXUAL IDENTITIES WHO THINK YOU CAN ONLY BE LESBIAN OR GAY AND IGNORE THE FACT THAT THERE IS, IN FACT, A ‘B’ IN LBGT+. THE TERM ‘WLW’ ALREADY EXISTS, YOU DON’T HAVE TO SLAP THE ‘LESBIAN’ LABEL ON EVERY SAPPHIC WOMAN, ESPECIALLY BECAUSE WHEN PEOPLE DO SO, THEY DO SO FOR WOMEN WHO EITHER DO NOT IDENTIFY AS LESBIAN OR HAVE NOT SPOKEN OF WHAT THEY IDENTIFY AS OTHER THAN WLW

You didn't prove people only think gays exist in ur entire paragraph..... I don't know why y'all are so convinced that the world actually believes only gay people exist but lemme tell u as a person residing in the Middle East that the world certainly isn't how you're claiming it is.

??? Are you really being serious? Are you REALLY being serious? You’re sealioning me?

Okay. Fine. Whatever. Not to mention that you haven’t STOPPED replying to my posts. You’ve left like 8 replies on my posts. Are you that obstinate? A SINGLE google search will tell you what you want proof for. (Also, good lord, why does you as ‘a person residing in the Middle East’ have to do with ANYTHING? Bisexual erasure happens EVERYWHERE.)

But, you know what? Fine. 

Bisexual Erasure has it’s own WIKIPEDIA Page. Because it’s literally that prevalent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisexual_erasure

Don’t like wiki? Just visit some of the sources it used for that page. Here you go. There’s near 20 of them. 

 Hutchins, Loraine. "Sexual Prejudice – The erasure of bisexuals in academia and the media". American Sexuality Magazine. San Francisco, CA 94103, United States: National Sexuality Resource Center, San Francisco State University. Archived from the originalon 2007-12-16. Retrieved 2007-07-19.

"Queers United".

 "Task Force Report On Bisexuality".

Firestein, Beth A. (2007). Becoming Visible: Counselling Bisexuals Across the Lifespan. Columbia University Press. pp. xvii. ISBN 0-231-13724-9.

Roffee, James A.; Waling, Andrea (October 2016). "Rethinking microaggressions and anti-social behaviour against LGBTIQ+ youth". Safer Communities. 15 (4): 190–201. doi:10.1108/SC-02-2016-0004.

 Yoshino, Kenji (January 2000). "The Epistemic Contract of Bisexual Erasure" (PDF). Stanford Law Review. Stanford Law School. 52 (2): 353–461. doi:10.2307/1229482. JSTOR 1229482.

Greenesmith, Heron (2010). "Drawing Bisexuality Back into the Picture: How Bisexuality Fits Into the LGBT Strategy Ten Years After Bisexual Erasure" (PDF). Cardozo Journal of Law and Gender. 17: 65–80. Retrieved February 1, 2013.

Michael Musto, April 7, 2009. Ever Meet a Real Bisexual?, The Village Voice

"Why Do Lesbians Hate Bisexuals?".

"Bisexual workers 'excluded by lesbian and gay colleagues'".

GLAAD (22 July 2015). "Erasure of Bisexuality". GLAAD.org.

Weiss, Jillian Todd (2004). "GL vs. BT: The Archaeology of Biphobia and Transphobia Within the U.S. Gay and Lesbian Community". Journal of Bisexuality. Haworth Press. 3 (3–4): 25–55. doi:10.1300/J159v03n03_02.

http://www.bisexualindex.org.uk/index.php/Main/Bisexuality#hyphen

 "Dan Savage-Stop with the Biphobia Already!".

Guittar, Nicholas A. (2013). "The Queer Apologetic: Explaining the Use of Bisexuality as a Transitional Identity". Journal of Bisexuality. 13 (2): 166. doi:10.1080/15299716.2013.781975.

 "Bisexuals Overlooked in the Debate on Equal Marriage Rights".

Erickson-Schroth, Laura; Mitchell, Jennifer (2009). "Queering Queer Theory, or Why Bisexuality matters". Journal of Bisexuality. 9 (3): 297–315. doi:10.1080/15299710903316596.

Angelides, Steven (2001). A History of Bisexuality. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-02089-4 – via WorldCat.

Jennifer Baumgardner, Look Both Ways: Bisexual Politics. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2008. ISBN 0-374-53108-0.

You look up Bisexual Erasure and you get 177 THOUSAND articles. Not to mention 7,950 scholarly sources. That’s nearly EIGHT THOUSAND scholars/scholarly sources that tell you that you are wrong. Want them as proof in case 20 sources weren’t enough for you? Here’s the fucking link. Enjoy 7,950 accounts telling you you’re wrong. 

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=bisexual+erasure&btnG=&as_sdt=1%2C9&as_sdtp=

Not enough for you? Maybe a different kind of google search will finally open your eyes. You look up ‘bisexual’ in google and you get 173,000,000 results. That’s a lot. You want to know how much you get when you look up lesbian?  797,000,000. That’s 4.6 TIMES the number. That’s nearly 5x or 500% more exposure Lesbian identities have than bisexual identities. 

Take a stroll through this website. Look at the comments people make. ‘MY LESBIAN QUEENS’ on pictures of The Statue of Liberty and Lady Justice hugging/kissing (which I 10000% support but wow, way to shove a sexuality on them when you can just say ‘Sapphic’). ‘Can you believe Kristen Stewart had to pretend to be straight all this time?’ ‘Bisexuals are tainted meat’ ‘I won’t date a woman who was touched by a man’ ‘Bisexuals are 2x more likely to cheat’ Calling us gay because it’s easier. Telling us to pick a side. I AM a bisexual. I live this fucking life. Don’t you dare sit there and not even do a damn GOOGLE SEARCH to educate yourself, just wanting to stir up shit and cover up your own bigotry. Why do you THINK so many people make posts like mine? Why do you THINK we have ‘L is for Lesbian, G for Gay, B is for. . .b-bees. . .T is. . .uh. . .tricycle.’? Why do you think we bristle at the idea of being called ‘gay’ since it’s been used as an umbrella term to misidentify us all the time? Why do you think we branch off and call ourselves ‘queer’, instead? Why do you hate us SO much you just want us gone, want us never to talk about how invisible you’ve made us? That we are worth so little of your time that you’ll send us message after message but won’t even do any of your own damn research?

I love when people make reaches like this. Why won't people admit that bi-erasure is real??

Also "bisexual erasure happens everywhere!!!" Ok cool and yet lesbians only make up 17% of LGBT representation whereas bisexuals make up 30% so looks like it isn't bisexuals being erased

Like gay people make up about 1.3% of the population and u genuinely think people believe only gays exist??? Lmfao

Me being in the Middle East is relevant when u act like society believes you can only be gay or lesbian rather than believing u can only be straight

you literally can’t be this dense. Like, there is no chance you aren’t trying to divert this post on purpose. 1: You have absolutely no source for LBGT+ representation. 2: clearly, you realize that I am talking within the context of LBGT+ community when I talk about bisexual erasure because you mentioned LBGT+ representation. 3. OBVIOUSLY STRAIGHT IS STILL THE DEFAULT, YOU RUSTY DOORNAIL. We live in this world and anyone who is LBGT+ is immediatly oppressed because we’re ALL denied basic human rights and representation. NO SHIT THE DEFAULT IS STILL STRAIGHT. But in the LBGT+ community, Bisexuality is even more oppressed than LB identities. T identities are oppressed the MOST. There are FACETS to every single community, you limp, wet noodle. Just like there’s colorism in POC communities, there’s erasure and bi and transphobia within the LBGT+ community. 

I’m really just convinced that you’re just making grabs for whatever the hell you want. Is this one of those alternative facts people talk about so much? Bisexual identities get 30% of LBGT+ representation. Yeah fucking right. You want to know what kind of representation we get? The cheater. The one who only kisses women when she’s drunk. And how many of them are named? Alex from Supergirl who identifies as lesbian, not bisexual. Maureen, who identifies as bisexual simply so she can have twice the pool of people to flirt with. Fuck you. Fuck you and your obstinate. 

don't do this to my post its for women lol

HAPPY super late BIRTHDAY, SEBA!!

You’re so kind and passionate tbh and you’ve helped me through a really rough patch in my life, I’m not sure what state I’d be in if you werent there to help me