Bisexuality - an irrelevance?

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Miley Cyrus came out as bisexual today, apparently. I wouldn't have known, but Facebook felt the need to post it on my newsfeed (serves me right for being on Facebook, I suppose).

What I'm wondering is, does bisexuality actually mean anything?

It means you are sexually attracted both to people of the same sex as you, and the opposite sex.

Yeah? And? So? What?

Are bisexuals suffering some civil rights crisis at the moment? Are they being discriminated against?

No, not at all. If you are in a heterosexual relationship, then you have the same rights as any other couple.

If you are in a homosexual relationship, then you also have the same rights as everyone else (at least when the marriage equality bill is signed into law).

There is no such thing as a 'bisexual relationship'. Your relationship is either same-sex or opposite-sex. Bisexuality is only relevant if you are in an open, or polyamorous, relationship.

Frankly, polyamorous relationships are tolerated far less than gay relationships.

Think of a gay celebrity in a relationship. Already you can probably think of dozens.

Think of a celebrity in a known open or polyamorous relationship. I'd bet you'd struggle to name five.

Bisexuality is the ultimate form of attention seeking. A bisexual person has all the privileges of a straight person, but chooses to sleep with members of the same sex. Good for him, or her. Do what you want. But don't expect a fucking round of applause or for us to swallow the notion of 'biphobia' from the likes of Amy Andre.

diomed

I love paragraphs too. You can't have too many paragraphs.

dub_skav

diomed wrote: »

I love paragraphs too. You can't have too many paragraphs.

I like both paragraphs and walls of text

whupdedo

I'm try sexual , ill try anything , lol

recylingbin

The real quetion is, why should I care?

mikeym

I know plenty of Bisexual people and they are sound.

OneOfThem

Edgar Faithful Carrousel wrote: »

Bisexuality is the ultimate form of attention seeking.

Kind of shat all over your whole point with that sentence.

Cold War Kid

I agree it's no big deal and they're not necessarily facing masses of prejudice, but a bisexual person is someone who is attracted to members of both sexes - there's no "attention-seeking" or "choose" about it. Some guys and gals do choose to experiment with members of the same sex while in college or whatever, but that's all it is: experimentation.

If the person whom a bisexual person wishes to be with, is of the same sex, then they could experience the same obstacles, e.g. from family, from people who have a problem with gay people, as a gay person would. In some ways it might have an extra dimension of difficulty, if there's an expectation for them to have ended up with a member of the opposite sex (due to being attracted to those too).

Sir Osis of Liver.

This thread could go either way.

unfortunately

Edgar Faithful Carrousel wrote: »

Miley Cyrus came out as bisexual today, apparently. I wouldn't have known, but Facebook felt the need to post it on my newsfeed (serves me right for being on Facebook, I suppose).

What I'm wondering is, does bisexuality actually mean anything?

It means you are sexually attracted both to people of the same sex as you, and the opposite sex.

Yeah? And? So? What?

Are bisexuals suffering some civil rights crisis at the moment? Are they being discriminated against?

No, not at all. If you are in a heterosexual relationship, then you have the same rights as any other couple.

If you are in a homosexual relationship, then you also have the same rights as everyone else (at least when the marriage equality bill is signed into law).

There is no such thing as a 'bisexual relationship'. Your relationship is either same-sex or opposite-sex. Bisexuality is only relevant if you are in an open, or polyamorous, relationship.

Frankly, polyamorous relationships are tolerated far less than gay relationships.

Think of a gay celebrity in a relationship. Already you can probably think of dozens.

Think of a celebrity in a known open or polyamorous relationship. I'd bet you'd struggle to name five.

Bisexuality is the ultimate form of attention seeking. A bisexual person has all the privileges of a straight person, but chooses to sleep with members of the same sex. Good for him, or her. Do what you want. But don't expect a fucking round of applause or for us to swallow the notion of 'biphobia' from the likes of Amy Andre.

You defeated your own argument in the same paragraph, well done.

jobbridge4life

Edgar Faithful Carrousel wrote: »

Bisexuality is the ultimate form of attention seeking. A bisexual person has all the privileges of a straight person, but chooses to sleep with members of the same sex. Good for him, or her. Do what you want. But don't expect a fucking round of applause or for us to swallow the notion of 'biphobia' from the likes of Amy Andre.

How about we live in a world where a persons sexuality is nothing of more consequence than a bit of magazine gossip. A persons sexuality is there sexuality as so for hetero as for homo so as for bi.

Miley Cryus is a celebrity. We talk about everything celebrities do/are way more than we should. The issue isn't sexuality its celebrity.

Standman

It's a short series of letters that act as kind of a short-hand for describing someone who is sexually attracted to both men and women. It's as relevant as any other descriptive word. :eek:

RDM_83 again

Meh, Bisexuality is so last year, its about Pansexuality now, its actually impossible to tell the difference between it and bisexuality if you try and actually pin it down but it sounds different in a vague undefinable way and it means you can be oppressed not only by the Hetro's and the Homo's but also by the Bi's too

Friend of mine said that bisexuality was being greedy. Ha.

blinding

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SpaceTime

OP:
What you just posted is exactly the kind of narrow minded bile that made my and other people's lives miserable for years.

It's a rather awkward position to be in because you're being told you're "attention seeking" and various other things and you fall between two stools. On the one hand you've gay people thinking you're not quite gay enough or somehow disloyal to the cause and on the straight side of things you've people saying you're kidding yourself, you're attention seeking and so on.

This is the kind of crap that drives people over the edge entirely!

Seriously think about walking a few miles in someone else's shoes before you post stuff like that. It's basically homophobia of sorts! You wouldn't say it about gay people because you'd get a huge backlash but somehow bi people are fair game!

Tombi!

Mod: Come on now. Don't be posting rubbish like this. Mocking sexual orientation is against the rules.
You should know better than that.