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cosmolinguisttfw you see someone say "gay or bisexual men and lesbians"...
Bi activists are not kidding when we say what bi representation there is, is often in this find-and-replace style. Usually what I'm used to seeing in these cases is what I think of as the Stonewall style because I first/most often saw it from them: "gay and bisexual men, and lesbian and bisexual women." This was in the days when they (as it's Stonewall England I mean here) weren't doing the T yet at all, and they seemed to think that this was sufficient inclusion.
Never mind that I seem to have a lot more in common with bisexuals of any gender than I do with cis lesbians. Never mind how many bisexuals that excludes because they're not men or women...
But this is even more special: this has thought to include the bi men but apparently I don't exist. Of course this goes against stereotype, which says "all women are bi and no men are bisexual," but maybe the fact that it was written by a gay man explains the increased detail allotted to men? They are, after all, the important gender.
And of course this "gay or bisexual men and lesbians" is part of the description of a link whose title starts "My best LGBT+ [things]..." Gotta have that plus these days, so important you know.
Sometimes it seems like we can keep changing the label but the contents inside are still always G.
Bi activists are not kidding when we say what bi representation there is, is often in this find-and-replace style. Usually what I'm used to seeing in these cases is what I think of as the Stonewall style because I first/most often saw it from them: "gay and bisexual men, and lesbian and bisexual women." This was in the days when they (as it's Stonewall England I mean here) weren't doing the T yet at all, and they seemed to think that this was sufficient inclusion.
Never mind that I seem to have a lot more in common with bisexuals of any gender than I do with cis lesbians. Never mind how many bisexuals that excludes because they're not men or women...
But this is even more special: this has thought to include the bi men but apparently I don't exist. Of course this goes against stereotype, which says "all women are bi and no men are bisexual," but maybe the fact that it was written by a gay man explains the increased detail allotted to men? They are, after all, the important gender.
And of course this "gay or bisexual men and lesbians" is part of the description of a link whose title starts "My best LGBT+ [things]..." Gotta have that plus these days, so important you know.
Sometimes it seems like we can keep changing the label but the contents inside are still always G.
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Date: 2018-02-28 01:59 am (UTC)Bi erasure and anti-trans hostility are probably the two biggest reasons why I don't use The Acronym anymore and get kind of suspicious around people who do and who write that + sign. Ugh.
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