#most bisexuals I know just say biphobia because calling it 'steotypes about bisexuality' 'misogyny specific to bi women' is a mouthful
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my problem when I say that I find most discussions on biphobia don't factor sex well isn't even "I don't think this is (as much of) a problem for bisexual men" because when you talk to them it's more often than not easy to trace a parallel experience. I just find odd how often bisexual men and women can be aggresors in discrimination against one another based on/related to sexuality.
I know a lot of bisexual women who have had bisexual men still treat them with assumptions of promiscuity and being "kinky". even more I can think of three guys with a pattern of preying on women who tend to be discarded for stable prestigious relationships because of those hyperseuxual bisexual stereotypes and then behave like domestic parasites on these relationships (and this is impossible to untagle from misogyny) but some of these same bisexual women and many others were disappointing contributors to "you will be left with HIV and dumped for a man" / "no but girl... how does it work being with a man who's been through more dick than you???" when I was dating a bisexual guy. (this in turn is tangled in a homophobia specific to sex between men) and so on and so on. of course any oppressed group can reproduce and enact prejudice that affects them but I'm not certain that's an accurate description of what happens in either direction.
#this of course doesn't make the concept of biphobia entirely useless but it's the main reason why I don't use it#obviously my biggest problem is with the idea of 'monosexual privilege' but it would be dishonest to act like everyone who uses biphobia#believes in it. it might just be my country and bubble but I do feel like that got deserved pushback that was digested#most bisexuals I know just say biphobia because calling it 'steotypes about bisexuality' 'misogyny specific to bi women' is a mouthful#but if it gets young bisexual girls/women out of being pressured into sex they don't want fine by me#but anyone gets me or do we need to share a blunt together before this conversation for it to make sense???#anyway this was partially one I feel like some of you just aren't close with SSA men and hang with them often from the 'this doesn't happen#to bisexual men / gay and bi men don't fight about this' claims I see#which isn't hateful I get this is easy to say when you're born in a city with 20 million people
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