galactic-hermit-crab: themeaningofbisexuality:callmebliss:galactic-hermit-crab:themeaningofbis
galactic-hermit-crab: themeaningofbisexuality: callmebliss: galactic-hermit-crab: themeaningofbisexuality: Bisexuality is the attraction to two or more genders Defining bisexuality as attraction to “both” sexes is intersex erasure and unscientific. Also this a definition often used by those who wish to misgender trans binary people and non-binary people by coercively defining people by the sex they were assigned at birth, and therefore equating sex to genitals. Both sex and gender are social constructs, and neither genitals nor chromosomes define someone’s gender identity. If a bisexual person defines their personal attraction as being to both sexes, they are intersex erasing and misgendering trans people and so should examine their definitions and learn not to erase and misgender people. If someone who isn’t bisexual uses this definition then, on top of the things I mention above, they are also being biphobic and it isn’t their place to tell the bisexual community how to define their sexuality. Can it be more though if you’re using ‘bi’? I understand the incorrect use of the word both, because that does erase the possibility of other genders, but bi is 2. Wouldn’t any more than 2 be the according number? Or would you just say pan? IMO bi indicates two states; for me, those states are “same gender as me” and “not same gender is me.” The latter encompasses to potential for a multitude of gender options without exclusion or erasure. Pan is relatively recently arisen as a function of the misunderstanding of bi as meaning exclusively two genders is attraction. It actually just means the same thing as the real definition of bi. Same gender attraction is not required to ID as bisexual which is why the community definition of “attraction to two or more genders” is preferred as it is the most inclusive definition that doesn’t put any limits/caveats on being bi. Pansexuality doesn’t just mean the same as the real definition of bi, it means attraction to all genders and so is a more specific label. So do we use bi as meaning 2 or more because it’s impractical to use tri, quad etc? Not impractical as such, if someone wish to refer to themselves that way then more power to them, but it’s kinda weird to specify 3, 4 or whatever when bi means two or more. -- source link