Shiri Eisner ๐๐๐
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Bisexual, genderqueer, intersectional feminist, Mizrahi, disabled, anarchist, vegan. Writer and activist. Author of BI: NOTES FOR A BISEXUAL REVOLUTION.
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@GCBiphobia
I wrote a book about radical/intersectional bi politics. It's about our oppression and our power, and it tries to form a political language to talk about our experiences in context. It was nominated for a Lambda, and has been quite successful. Check it out
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Here's a hefty pile of acephobia for you:
My friend recently submitted a scientific article about acephobic stereotypes to an academic journal. It was rejected because the reviewer said, and I shit you not, that these are not stereotypes but accurate assessments of ace people.
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We need to talk about how bisexuality in itself is considered "queerbaiting" because it isn't perceived as queer
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This quote has been living rent free in my head for about ten years now
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Bi women who date cishet men expose them to queer culture and feminism. These men learn abt queer lives, queer & feminist politics, and oppression. Many of them find out they're not actually cis or het. Bi women transmit queerness into cishet culture. We are a virus in the system
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Bimisogyny is going to play a major role in Marilyn Manson's suit against Evan Rachel Wood. Bi women are perceived as liars, cheaters, unreliable and unstable manipulators. Ppl rather believe that she had spent years meticulously forging evidence than that she's telling the truth
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Let ๐๐ฝ bi ๐๐ฝ women ๐๐ฝ have ๐๐ฝ boyfriends
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A lot of people are posting comments actually aimed at my friend. I'll let them know they should read the thread, and from there it's up to them :)
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Bisexual activist Brenda Howard (known as "Mother of Pride") organized the first Pride March one year after Stonewall, and later came up with the concept of "Pride Week". Despite her pivotal role, she is routinely erased to the extent that most LGBTQ people don't know about her.
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Nothing is more representative of essence of pride than the entire internet thanking Jillian Anderson, a bi woman, for "making me gay" while tearing down bisexual women in every single other context
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I need people to understand what it's like to be living in Israel right now. A lot of internationals assume that most Jewish Israelis are reasonable, don't actually want this violence, try their best to avoid it, and only do it when forced to. This is a lie.
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At some point we need to have a conversation about how having a bi+ or nonbinary identity is considered queerbaiting.
A lot of the time. A lot. Of. The time. "Queerbaiting" is just thinly veiled biphobia and enbyphobia, especially when used against real flesh and blood people.
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Never forget why everyone is so invested in bisexual erasure: because without bisexuality (the space of in-between/both-and/neither-nor), oppression based on hierarchical sex/gender/sexuality binaries is much easier to maintain.
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The first time I came out as bi was in 9th grade. It immediately became "known" that I was a "slut". I was constantly harassed. The boys in my class tried to get me to have sex with them every single day. I was a virgin.
This is an example of how coming out can put you in danger.
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Astounding example of the way people can talk about bisexuality without talking about bisexuality, making it an unthinkable non-existent impossibility. One of the most insidious forms of bi erasure
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Let's talk about how bi men are perceived as unworthy of love
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"Everyone is actually bi" relegates bisexuality to a latent status - something that only exists as potential rather than reality, always either in the past or the future but never here and now. It voids bisexuality of concrete meaning and erases it as a specific identity.
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Straight women are viewed as women while bi women are viewed as extensions of men
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Today is
#InternationalComingOutDay
. Here are some problems with the cultural narrative of coming out ๐งต (1/6)
1. The coming out narrative places disproportionate weight on individuals to fix societal LGBTphobia instead of emphasizing how society builds closets around us.
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Bimisogyny is bi women imagined as extensions of cishet men rather than people. Their entire personhood and humanity is denied in favor of subordinate existence.
If this sounds like classic misogyny, let me say once again that bi women bear the brunt of it. We carry it sevenfold
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In case I wasn't clear enough - this is shorthand for "Let bi women have boyfriends without being accused of being agents of the heteropatriarchy". Happy to help.
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Bi men are so often rejected by cishet women because they are perceived as "not man enough", as tainted by sex with other men, or as a threat to monogamous relationship structures. This tells us that bi masculinity poses a threat to dominant masculinity, and that is a good thing.
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Bis, ur not "valid". You are magnificent, wonderful & a blessing unto the world. You are beautiful for existing, persisting, surviving & thriving in a world that wants you gone. Your existence enriches the world, holds endless potential to remake reality and create a revolution.
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What we have is collective, overwhelming, overpowering bloodlust.
It is taboo to feel sorry for the people dead in Gaza. It is taboo to say that killing Palestinian children is wrong. It is taboo to dispute the wish to murder every living person in Gaza.
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We compare them bc:
1. Statistically, bi's results are closest to trans ppl's
2. Biphobic and transphobic discourses are eerily similar, esp transmisogyny & bimisogyny
3. Transphobia and biphobia often come from the same ppl
4. A disproportionate no. of us are both bi & trans
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Btw most bi stereotypes are forms of gaslighting. Confused? Nah, that would be you. Indecisive? You can't find where to place us. Promiscuous? You hypersexualize us. Give me any biphobic stereotype and I'll tell you how it describes something society does to bi people.
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TV shows and movies don't know how to humanize bi people. When they need a bi villain, bisexuality is front and centre. When they need a morally gray character, bisexuality is utilized to its fullest. When the character needs to be humanized? They're bi, but it "doesn't matter".
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I don't know who needs to hear this but the first ever pride march was organized by Brenda Howard, a bisexual kinkster and sex worker, so you'd better believe that bi+ people, kinksters and sex workers all fucking belong at pride
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Reminder that more fetishized =/= more socially accepted
75% of bi women survived sexual violence
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The idea that bisexuality and pansexuality are mutually exclusive is really something we should move away from
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For your delectation on this
#BiVisibilityDay
, here are some important messages about biphobia, presented by kittens ๐งต
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Lots and lots of us are both, and the cis bi community has historically been infinitely more accepting of trans people than cis gay and lesbian ones
you know who you never see trying to โdrop the Tโ? bisexuals. why?
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Bisexuality is always perceived as adjacent to privilege. That's why people assumes most bis are also white, cis, financially stable, abled, and conventionally pretty.
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This is a militarist death cult, upheld by racism, colonialism, entitlement, and ethnic supremacy. Please understand, this is completely mainstream and acceptable. Challenging any of it is taboo.
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One day I'm going to teach a course called "LGBTQ studies 101" and it will all just be about bi, trans and ace people
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It is taboo to talk about the occupation, apartheid, and ethnic cleansing of Palestine. Talking about any of the above can and will get you into trouble. For Palestinians existing in majority-Jewish places, just existing can and will put them at risk, sometimes for their lives
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Are you a bisexual woman?
Do you have a boyfriend?
๐๐ฝ Great, keep going!
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I'm blocking all Amber Heard backlashers because fuck that and I wish threads could be moderated on Twitter
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Slightly unfriendly reminder that people identifying as pansexual are not, in fact, responsible for bi oppression
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This is not normal. None of this is normal. Do not assume this is in any way similar to what you know or what you want to believe is reasonable. It is not.
#FreeGaza
#FreePalestine
#GazaUnderAttack
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Reminder for
#PansexualVisibilityDay
: bisexuality & pansexuality don't contradict each other and don't rule each other out. They are close, each is unique, and neither should subsume the other. Our overlap is grounds for solidarity, shared struggle and subversion of monosexism๐
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People have no capacity to imagine bisexuality outside of monosexism. They replicate and retell it as either "basically" cishet or "basically" gay.
Our partners don't define who we are, our experiences, or our oppression. Our identity and experience does.
I came out OUT, like publicly out as a lesbian 17yrs ago. Been in LGBTQ+ circles a long time. All bisexual women Iโve met along the way have ended up marrying men. ALL of them. I only know one bi man whoโs married to a man. And I know plenty of bi men. Make of it what you will.
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This is cute, but bi butches also exist
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It is completely normal to say "we need to flatten Gaza", "it would be easy to erase Gaza", "all Arabs are terrorists", and "all terrorists deserve to die". These statements are not only repeated by the public, but also by the media. So often that they are impossible to avoid.
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Btw the fact that biphobia levels rise during pride month and bi visibility month is a perfect illustration of the fact that visibility without liberation only makes you a target. Visibility is not enough. It never has been and never will be.
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I am begging you to stop grouping LGB vs T. It assumes that the B is enjoying the same level of support, resources and relatives public acceptance/legal rights as the L&G, when in reality our statistics are comparable to those of the T. LGB doesn't exist, it's LG and BT.
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If you're a bi person who thinks bisexuality is the most acceptable form of queerness in society, it shows that you've only ever been exposed to biphobic discourse, and I'm sorry. You didn't deserve it, and the fact that it happened reveals how deep and wide biphobia runs
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Just a reminder: biphobic discourse hinges on symbolic argumentation rather than actual numbers because the numbers tell our story
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It is literally impossible to get factual reports about the situation without bloodlust. Without hearing praise of the slaughter in Gaza and violence against Palestinians everywhere in Israel. Without it being encouraged and hungered for.
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Today is International Non-binary People's Day. Enby bi people face massive erasure and invalidation of both our identities, both separately and when they come together. We're told our existence is impossible and made to believe we shouldn't exist. That we still do is amazing ๐
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Instead of: "Everyone is a little bisexual, really"
Try: "Heterosexuality is a compulsory social construct"
This has been a PSA
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In most places and contexts, talking about the missiles fired at Israel is inextricably attached to bloodlust. You can't talk about fear and damage on the Israeli side without the conclusion being assumed as "I hope they kill them all and raze Gaza to the ground".
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Day of protest here in Israel/Occupied Palestine. This wonderful image was taken today from a roadblock in Tel Aviv.
We continue to resist the attempt to establish a full-on dictatorship. Wish us luck.
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So many people offended at the idea of a bisexual restaurant. Here's a short ๐งต for those who genuinely want to know why it's needed:
1. The notion that bis don't need their own spaces reflects a biphobic belief that bisexuality exists in isolation from social context, and that
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The mass excitement about the pink heart really shows how accustomed we are to getting literal crumbs and scraps
Reminder that the official organization responsible for creating new emojis refuses to add a bi flag because "it wouldn't have much use"
BISEXUALS! With the iPhone update there is a regular pink heart. We no longer have to choose between pink hearts to fit the flag ๐ฉท๐๐! We won!
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Still pissed that no one wanted to publish my Interview With the Vampire article because online media is so committed to bisexual erasure, but today I'm particularly pissed about the fact that if I'd replaced "bisexuality" with "queerness" it may very well have been accepted.
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I hate that this needs to be said, but systematic oppression isn't a bi woman breaking up with a lesbian. That's called human behavior.
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Biphobia: accusing all bi people of being transphobic
Not biphobia: Identifying as pansexual
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There are many reasons bi people tend to be in different-gender relationships, but here's the thing: WE SHOULDN'T HAVE TO EXPLAIN IT AT ALL. We shouldn't be subjected to tests. We shouldn't have to validate our queerness. We shouldn't be having to comply with imagined standards.
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Bi Twitter, where will we go if Twitter implodes? Asking because Twitter is literally 100% of my connection with international bi community, activists and writers
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I don't know who needs to hear this but bi people with cishet partners are spreading queerness to the world
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PSA: When therapists try to convince bi clients that theyโre actually gay or straight, thatโs conversion therapy.
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"Monosexual" was coined in the late 19th century to describe species that had what was conceived as binary biological sex.
I coined "monosexual privilege". I'm a Jewish person born in Occupied Palestine, and have always been anti-Zionist.
People spreading lies about how monosexual was coined by a zionist and that we shouldn't be using that word but comphet was a word coined by a terf but that's totally fine I guess
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The grounding logic of lesbian bimisogyny, told us directly and explicitly
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I don't know who needs to hear this, but there's no such thing as not being "queer enough" because "queer enough" is a lie
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Bi people are important and biphobia should be taken seriously
leftists whatโs your leftist opinion that will have leftists leftisting at you like this lefistly on the leftist compound?
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This is also entirely representative of many bi women's social role as a gateway to queerness, while LG bimisogyny keeps imagining us as a cishet corruption of queer purity.
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Bimisogynists talking about sexual and intimate violence against bi women like it's divine punishment for their bisexuality
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Bi women are and have been quintessential to queer and feminist history and culture. Without bi women, we wouldn't have pride, sex positive feminism, sex negative feminism, queer woc feminism, and much more. We make up and enrich queer/feminist communities, culture and life.
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Pro tip: biphobia and monosexism can be present even without explicit negative statements about bisexuality. People don't have to say "bisexuality is bad" for it to be insinuated in a variety of ways. This is true for both people and the media.
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If Kit Connor wasn't bi, he would not have been accused of "queerbaiting"
the way that yโall continuously accuse REAL PEOPLE of โqueerbaitingโ and it often s ends up with forcing bisexual ppl out of the closet is very ugly and so biphobic. Ppl donโt owe yโall SHIT!
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6. It makes closeted people feel guilty for protecting themselves by staying closeted. It paints them as cowardly and privilege-seeking, when it fact it is society that makes it unsafe for them to come out. This is esp relevant to bi+ & trans people, who tend to be more stealth.
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@fvsch
No, but he didn't need to because he phrased it as a question, i.e. """I don't know what you mean by stereotypes because you didn't prove that's what they truly are""" (but in, like, self-important sophisticated academic language)
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3. It advances a "born this way" stance - requires us to prove that we were born bi/trans/queer to attain legitimacy. It insinuates that given a choice, no one would choose to be "like that". This centers cishet identities and lives, and imagines them as inherently superior.
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2. It also dictates a rigid tautological narrative (i.e. whose beginning is defined by its end). It requires absolute stability and doesn't allow for flexibility or change, meaning it is structurally hostile to nonbinary and fluid identities (including bi+ identities). This is bc
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Before going, I will say to whoever's genuine about concern for trans people (which I am, hi, nice to meet you). Consider: "I was misgendered today at a queer event. Transphobia should never be welcome in our spaces".
I.e. we can, in fact, resist transphobia without bimisogyny.
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@CJENewton
@Garrett_Leigh
If you think the existence of bifeminism is somehow erasive of cishet women's feminism... I don't think we have much to talk about
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Wherein bi women describing positive experiences with male partners get called "the bi woman with a boyfriend industrial complex" ๐คฆ๐ฝโโ๏ธ
That image is actually how bi women should be talking: about ourselves and our experiences rather than always trying to prove what we already know
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In case ur wondering what's up in Israel: I just had to unfriend 10+ Facebook friends who responded "Attending" an event celebrating genocide in Gaza + another one justifying the killing of ~3000 Gazan children
When Zionists tell you Israelis don't want genocide, they are lying
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Fun fact: every 20 years or so, the media will suddenly "discover" bisexuality and start gushing about the "new bisexual trend". This has been happening since at least the 50s.
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Bisexuality is overwhelmingly imagined as a form of privilege. No matter what we say, this is the framework in which it is interpreted. It's a presumption that controls all discourse about bisexuality and it is near impossible to escape.
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Can we talk about the myth that bisexuality has never been defined as "attraction to both genders" by bisexual communities? It's ahistorical, disingenuous, and only serves to invalidate our case when arguing that bisexuality isn't binary.
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Last day of bi visibility month, reminder that visibility is not enough. Acceptance is not enough. We don't just have a right to live in the world, we should be able to blossom. We have a right for the best possible world we can imagine, and we can compromise for nothing less.
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Why do people think it makes sense for all vampires to be bisexual because "once you live that long you have to try everything", but no one expects all old people to be bisexual?
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Hard pill to swallow: sometimes women leave other women for men without it being a result of comphet, centering men, or buying into heteropatriarchy and you can heal from that pain without being biphobic.
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When people say things like "Everyone is actually bisexual", they're dissolving bisexuality as a specific, concrete identity, a type of experience, and tangible oppression in the real world. This erases every aspect of bisexuality while seemingly applauding it.
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I will never get over how the very existence of bi women is perceived by some lesbians as violence done against them
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Reminder that for biphobes, the only right way to be bi is to stop existing as bisexual
That's not an "unreachable need", that's how a hate group works
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Really good example of TV series using bisexuality to gain representation cookies without providing actual representation
clara oswald was confirmed bisexual in doctor who magazine
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I cannot tell you how relieved I was seeing that comment. I'd choose biphobia over getting grouped with the transphobes any day
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The idea that bi people of any gender are tainted if they've had a penis in them revolves around phallocentism and the idea that whoever had a penis in them could never truly want anything else
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5. It demands we display suffering as a requirement to gain legitimacy. It forces us to conceive of LGBT identities as inherently painful and our lives as inherently miserable, erasing QT joy. It also dehumanizes us by requiring we perform our trauma to be perceived as legitimate
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This has the same logic as denying the existence of misogyny or racism because women and poc have equal rights by law
This is a deliberate bad faith misunderstanding of what biphobia means, but here's the thing: they have to invent imaginary arguments because biphobia is real
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