#erasing biphobia

[excitedsquid]

i think these two idiots could use at least one cold-headed, rational fbi agent

[madohomurat]

ppl for real out here calling themselves "gay and straight" instead of just saying bisexual. or like. theyll be like "im both a lesbian and a gay man" as if its some wild and new thing for you to define your sexuality based on who you happen to be dating at that moment. biphobia isnt new sir. and no this is not me hating on an "identity i dont understand" either. i undrrstand that you are genderfluid, bisexual, or both, and harboring deeply rooted biphobic ideas.

you think youre "gayer" than other bisexuals. you think youre "more sapphic" than other bisexuals. you think you understand gender, gender nonconformity, and genderfluidness more than any other bisexual possibly could. and you also think that these thoughts are somehow good and enlightening rather than shallow, bigoted, closeminded. you need to sit down and think about why you are so disgusted with the idea being bisexual

[bi-dykes]

“What do you mean there’s still so much biphobia in fan spaces? Bisexuals are like some of the most popular characters!”

Yeah, and they either get treated like this:

Or like this:

“Biphobia isn’t real” neither are your braincells

[suavis]

gee, i can't wait for the backlash over michaela being a woman to die down so we can then get into the real fun stuff: intracommunity discourse over what francesca's sexuality is!

[meggie-moo]

one of my biggest fic pet peeves is when they make a canon bi character gay, like?? there’s no need, they are already attracted to the same gender? literally what is the point of erasing their bisexuality, when it literally does not change the possibility of your ship happening? 😭 idk, it just does not sit well with me, lol

[solitaireships]

I hate so much how it seems like people get that it’s bad to call canonly bi and pan characters straight, but then will turn around and say it’s ok to “headcanon” canonly bi and pan characters as gay men or lesbians. The problem of calling mspec characters straight isn’t just erasing queerness, it’s the erasure of multi gender attraction. Saying a gay or lesbian character should have been bi or pan is bad, and the reverse is also true bcs either way, it’s serving as the erasure of a specific form of queer identity

[dappy-dappernette]

Hetalia fandom stop being weird about Bi-Headcanons: Impossible.

[tr1ppykay]

i hate burnout + no internal monologue + thinking about everything all the time constantly adhd style, because i have so many fucking theory essays in my head and whenever i try to write them and get all of the nuances of my point across concisely my brain just goes: you can either ramble incoherently for 20 pages, or you can get cognitive overload and stare at a wall. no in between ❤️

[s-exy-sapphillean]

Inclus spaces need to start having conversations about how sometimes bi lesbian and bi veldian/turian labels are used as a vehicle for monosexism and bi erasure and implications that monosexual attraction is more truly queer than "just" bisexual attraction (additionally aided by the constant conflation of lesbian and veldian with sapphic and achillean, completely erasing sapphics and achilleans who are neither) & how some people use them to force bisexual attraction into a monosexist binary

[strawbbfluff]

if i see one more person say “she’s for the girls” about a bisexual woman i’m going to flip

[agirlking]

Fandom on its way to erase a character’s bisexuality and attack bi people that call it out

[mishtershpock]

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[hexelein]

Everytime someone hc the stardew valley bachelors and bachlerottes as monosexual or uses the word "playersexual" a fairy dies

[theprinceandthewitch]

The fact Gus and Willow don't get hit with the sibling bullshit nearly as much as Hunter does is actually really obvious that people are aware of Luz's thing for princes, [how can you not be when its literally in the second episode of the series and in SAI] but they're biphobic and enjoy gaslighting people into thinking Luz is a lesbian.

[bisexual-coala]

Something I have noticed is how when a confirmed bisexual character gets another label given to them by a biphobic writer, it's not considered as bi erasure. It will be "oh the character realised they aren't bi" but the same thing happens to any character of other sexuality, people will say it's erasure

[invinciblerodent]

>person writes a post about how being a fan of a female fictional character means also needing to be her defense attorney, and generally an expert at explaining all her nuances

>hmm yes, i agree, I too am frustrated by fandom misogyny, I shall reblog that

>I glance at their username

>it's calling a canonically bisexual female character a lesbian

(i don't know how many more times i can scroll past casual bi erasure, folks)

(i don't know how much more i have in me)