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Some of yall are too comfortable erasing Asami's bisexuality. The amount of people who erase especially her bisexuality is insane. How hard is it to respect bi rep? Korrasami is literally like one of so few bi4bi couples we have and yall are erasing that too. They both are canonically BISEXUAL! Not lesbian but bisexual. Respect that instead of being an asshole

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“I Think…” by Leanne Franson, 1992

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♡

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i’m gonna say something controversial yet brave: sexuality labels are a convenient tool we use to define something that is undefinable

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🩷💜💙

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From the Spring 1997 issue of bisexual magazine "Anything That Moves" (plain text under the cut)

Not A Traitor, Not Weird, Just Happy

Greetings! Just when I was afraid that there was no intelligent life out there, I find Anything That Moves. What luck!

I adored "Bi Femme" by Leah Lilith Albrecht-Samarasinha; I think she and I are sisters under the skin! I am currently embroiled in a passionate relationship with a glorious drag queen, and I was really starting to feel as if I were the only bi-babe who got all sweaty over a guy in a frock.

I, too, have been called a traitor by my gay friends, and just plain weird by my straight friends, but how can you label "happy"? I steal his clothes, he steals mine... and we wear the same size skirt. What more is there?

Thanks again. I shall return regularly.

Ging (from the 'net)

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A violent reminder 💖💜💙

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Bisexuality & discrimination by Lani Kaahumanu / 1985

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just saying it's a little bit problematic if you automatically make a character pan just because they're not cis ☕️

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Pansexuals admitting that they don't see trans men and woman as men and woman or even nonbinary people like myself as human beings. Being attracted to a trans person purely because we're trans is quite literally trans chasing! This biphobic and transphobic train wreck also has the added bonus of ironically using the color purple in the last comment which is used on the bisexual flag to represent attraction regardless of sex or gender.

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I saw your post saying that bisexuality is the attraction to men, women and nonbinary people (all genders) and it's NOT the attraction to men and women only. I always thought pansexuality was the attraction to men, women and nonbinary people (all genders) and bisexuality was the attraction to men and women only so I'm confused by this post. Does this mean pansexuality is the attraction to men and women only? Did I get them the wrong way round?

The best answer I have to explain this is from my favorite bi page on Facebook and a link to a very good article about bisexual history.

So I wanna start off and say that I understand your confusion. A lot of people I'm sad to say have grown up with a very limited understanding of bisexuality because with the exception of a lucky few, most of us didn't have access to bisexual history or activism and got the bare minimum and narrow description of bisexuality which is the common "attracted to men and woman."

While bisexuals being attracted to men and woman is a technically correct definition since bisexuality does include them, it's not the whole truth and leaves out about 99% of the entire story. What people think that pansexuality is, is in truth what bisexuality has always been.

When it comes to there being a "difference" between bi and pan, honestly there really is no difference between Bi or Pan that many bisexuals cis, trans, and nonbinary alike have pointed out, doesn't end up relying on biphobia, transphobia, bi-erasure of bisexual history or just a lot of misinformation.

The whole reason pansexuality even became popular is because a 2002 Live Journal post by a teenager who also had no knowledge of bisexuality or it's history, said bisexuality was transphobic and only included cis men & woman which ended up spreading biphobia, and transphobia from there because the overwhelming majority of people just didn't have anyone to say "hey that's wrong, this is what bisexuality is" and set the record straight.

In reality bisexuality has always included and welcomed trans, nonbinary, and gender non conforming people even before we had modern terminology to describe them.

The definition "Regardless of gender" itself was invented by bisexual activists to define bisexuality and the modern bisexual movement that started in the 70's. So regardless of gender is bisexualities real definition.

Many people inappropriately try to use the "bi" prefix to argue what bisexuality should mean, and that is called an etymology fallacy. The "bi" in bisexuality doesn't represent a quantity of genders and never has. It refers to bridging the attraction patterns of homo (same as) and hetero (different from) which covers all regardless of gender because it's not based on gender in the first place. People using etymological fallacies to define bi as binary to justify biphobia is wrong and in the end hurts bisexuals. Though I'm just explaining and in no way accusing anybody of doing so.

Unfortunately since a lie and misinformation spread faster than the truth it's taken 20 years to put the pieces of knowledge of what bisexuality truly means back together that were lost or buried due to bi-erasure.

To quote Bisexual activists Janet Bode who invented the definition of regardless of gender in her book (The Pressure Cooker) : "Being bisexual does not mean having sexual relations with both sexes, but that they are capable of meaningful and intimate involvement with a person regardless of gender" - 1976

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even spicier take: “non-binary” means a thousand different things to a thousand different people and therefore anyone of any sexuality could theoretically be attracted to a non-binary person in some capacity, so if you’re gay and someone you’re attracted to says, “i’m non-binary,” you don’t actually have to redefine your entire identity, you can just drink a cup of sleepytime tea and go right on being gay and into non-binary people. 

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A violent reminder 💖💜💙

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Poison ivy has something to say :)

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Crazy to me how an account can claim to be a source of "educating" people on bisexuality and then continue to use defintions made by biphobes with the sole purpose of spreading misinformation instead of the actual definition given by bisexual activists.

Anyway this is another reminder that the defintion of bisexual is attraction REGARDLESS of gender. Always has been and always will be.

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When bisexual girls are in relationships with men, we’re assumed to be heterosexual. That being interested in women never mattered, that if we’re in a straight-passing relationship, we’re straight now.

The thing that a lot of ppl don’t realize, is that when we’re with a girl, it doesn’t magically undo the bi-erasure. Now, bisexual girls are assumed to be lesbians. Now, being interested in men never mattered, a bisexual girl in a lesbian-passing relationship is lesbian now.

We get erased from all sides. Poison Ivy gets the same treatment irl bisexuals do, and it’s aggravating to see even a beloved fictional character get her identity erased.