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LGBTQIA+ 22h
everyone is not a little bit bi i agree. shit pissed me off when i would try and tell my parents im lesbian and they tell me i haven’t “found the right man yet”
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LGBTQIA+ 1d
The statement that everyone is a little bi did so much damage to my mental health and my journey of figuring out my sexuality. I look back at all the times I tried to force myself to like men and how absolutely miserable I was. Everyone is not a little bi
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Anonymous 16h

the "a little bit bi" thing stems from a fundamental misunderstanding of the sexuality spectrum, in which being "fully" straight and "fully" gay/lesbian are extremes on the spectrum... not sure why people get surprised when others fall on the ends of that spectrum

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Anonymous 6h

Exactly! That statement is sooo invalidating to monosexual people

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Anonymous 22h

That’s not “everyone is a little bit bi” that’s homophobic cope. I don’t like the “everyone is a little bit bi” thing either, you are talking about a different thing altogether though

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 22h

Honestly they are kinda the same. Telling a lesbian that everyone is a little bi is implying they haven’t found the right man yet

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 22h

Your example isn’t wrong, but it’s a square-rectangle thing. Telling a lesbian that everyone is a little bit bi IS saying that they haven’t found the right man yet. But telling a lesbian that they haven’t found the right man yet IS NOT NECESSARILY saying that everyone is a little bit bi. Especially coming from (presumably) straight parents, it’s just a denial of lesbians’ existences.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 21h

As a lesbian to me both groups of people are denying that I exist and are saying my sexuality isn’t valid, they are all lesbophobic. You can argue semantics but that doesn’t change both are denying the existence of lesbians

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 21h

I am not denying that. The difference is, one group doesn’t believe in any form of queerness. They just think you’re “confused.” When someone says they’re bi to the “you’ll find the right woman eventually” crowd, they don’t say “cool” and move on with their day. They say, “you’ll end up with (opposite gender.” That is the difference, and yes, it’s an important one.

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 16h

and even people who DONT fall on the endpoints of the spectrum might still function as “fully” gay/lesbian or “fully” straight… it’s why you might hear a gay man saying a female celebrity is attractive when he “shouldn’t” find her attractive. finding an unobtainable person attractive doesn’t mean you’re not functionally gay anymore, and using that as ammunition to claim someone “hasnt found the right woman yet” is just homophobic 💀

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 6h

You can see that someone is objectively attractive without being attracted to them…. A gay man saying a woman is attractive does not mean he isn’t on the extreme end of the spectrum.

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 5h

true! your statement and mine do not contradict each other.

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