One for girls and one for boys?

[cosmolinguist]

Quite apart from anything else about it, one sentence from this article about a guy who says he has two penises answering questions on Reddit stands out to me:

One of the more impossible questions Reddit users asked the DDD [Double Dick Dude] to answer was whether having two dicks made him bisexual...

People really have no idea what bisexuality means, do they? That's the only conclusion I can derive from this.

Comments

[rmc28]

Or they think they're funny?

[cosmolinguist]

I suppose it's possible. But this sounds close enough to things I've heard people say to/about bisexuals that I'm cynically sure that even if the asker meant it as a joke, some people are bound to have read it and thought, "Hey, yeah, that's a good point!"

[davidgillon]

Yeah, my immediate thought was 'I see geek humour is stuck at its normal level'.

[sorrillia]

Well, you wouldn't want to cause cootie cross-contamination by using the same penis for both boys and girls, would you?

[cosmolinguist]

Heh, true. So much more hygienic to have two.

[sorrillia]

Hmm. What if you have sex with genderqueer people? Are we just immune to cooties? Or are we carriers of both types?

[cosmolinguist]

Heh, I wanted to use the proper definitions of bisexuality I'm used to, "genders similar to me" and "genders different from me," instead of "girls and boys" in the title of this, but it ended up too long a phrase. So I don't myself think it's as straightforward as girls and boys anyway. :)

[australian-joe.livejournal.com]

"You're so right! The left one only likes women, and the right only likes men. Don't even get me started on binary privilege."

[softfruit.livejournal.com]

Swings both ways at once, innit?

[cosmolinguist]

So binarist, though, only two. No doubt pansexualists have infinite genitalia!

[softfruit.livejournal.com]

That's just the amount of genitalia they have pressed against their grandma's face. They have way more than infinite genitalia. Infinity plus five.