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Bridging the Divide: Bisexual and Pansexual Identity Conflicts (www.transvitae.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

While I agree it we shouldn't really argue over this, I disagree with their Misconception #1 that "bi" can mean more than 1.

I acknowledge that bisexual may have a different meaning to some people, and also that language evolves over time but the prefix bi literally means "two". For example bicycle, biceps, biped, bifocals.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Sure, if you zone in on the prefix, it definitely means two, but the word bisexual itself has been used to denote "attraction to more than one gender" for ages.

Do not assume that bisexuality is binary or duogamous in nature: that we have "two" sides or that we must be involved simultaneously with both genders to be fulfilled human beings. In fact, don't assume that there are only two genders.

–Excerpt from the first edition of Anything That Moves, a bisexual magazine, initially published in 1991