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  • Flagstaff@programming.dev ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Two bisexual friends have independently told me from their own experiences that “bisexual” mostly = “gay with a dash of hetero,” effectively, and that it’s not at all 50/50. I wonder how true that is.

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    • First_Thunder@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      A bisexual friend of mine said mostly straight with a dash of gay

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      • porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        It’s almost like there’s a spectrum

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      • oppy1984@lemdro.id ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        This was my ex girlfriend, she had her a girlfriend when we met but they both understood that she was more attracted to men. We had a sit down early on and agreed that from time to time they would need some alone time, and that worked until they broke up over money.

        The funny part was they were both bi, my girlfriend was more attracted to men, and her girlfriend was more attracted to women. So I saw both sides of it.

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    • ObviouslyNotBanana@piefed.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      My wife tells me it's a spectrum.

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    • AnarchistArtificer@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      For me, I would say that the magnitude of my attraction is roughly 50/50, but qualitatively, the attraction I feel towards a man is distinct from what I feel towards women.

      A significant aspect that plays a role is also how I present to the world. From my appearance, most people would conclude that I am LGBTQ, and that usually means assuming I’m gay. This is useful because any bisexual’s dating pool is biased towards opposite sex partners; if I want to find gay or bisexual (or pansexual or asexual) women to date, it’s strategically useful to wear my sexuality on my sleeve, so to speak. This has the helpful side effects of filtering out the kind of straight asshole who says “why would you shave your hair like that? You might get more male attention if you made yourself look pretty”

      Sexuality is messy. The attraction I feel is pretty equal. How the world perceives me is more gay than straight (because the world likes to pretend that bisexuality doesn’t exist, and then act like I’m changing my mind when I “switch from being gay to straight” or vice versa (/facepalm). In terms of who I actually date or hook up with, the balance is probably skewed towards men. These three components (attraction, outward identification/presentation and behaviour) make sexuality complex, especially for bisexual people; I would wager that there are many people who identify as straight and have had no same sex relationships, but who experience some level of same-sex attraction. It also gets more complex when one considers that many people experience sexual attraction and romantic attraction differently. For example, I have a friend who is asexual, but homoromantic.

      You might find it interesting to read about the Kinsey scale, which looks at sexuality as a spectrum, with exclusively [homosexual/heterosexual] on the extreme ends of the scale, and degrees of bisexuality between them.

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    • rhombus@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Depends on the person. Some people are more in the middle, some lean one way or the other, and others are more fluid and their attractions shift. There’s a whole spectrum of bisexuality. It’s also why there’s a distinction for pansexual, for people whom gender plays no role in attraction at all.

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      • theangryseal@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        It is definitely a spectrum. My best friend of the last 20 odd years once said to me, “I’m theoretically bisexual, but honest to god bisexual in some ways. Theoretically in the sense that I cannot imagine myself being emotionally intimate with a man, but I wouldn’t shut it down if I ever found myself in a position where it was working for me. Honest to god in the sense that in the exact moment of peak horny, I am attracted to both men and women.”

        Every serious relationship he’s ever had, he’s had with a woman.

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    • jol@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s not as simple as that at all. Sexuality is a spectrum, it’s fluid, you’re not always born with it, and there are social factors at play. In some societies bi people live straight lives due to social pressure. On top of that, many bi guys often have more sex with guys because it’s easier and carries no risk of pregnancy. So yeah, your friend is just discriminating against bisexual people.

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    • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Bet your bi friends are jealous that a bi person is being happy in a straight relationship.

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    • UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Girly boys are way hotter than girls, change my mind

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    • CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Not remotely true at all. Shit dumb people say.

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  • ryedaft@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Playing fast and loose with capitalization I see. Just choose a case already!

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    • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      nO.

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    • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Cropping, too. Pick one size, Jesus. Indecision abounds.

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  • First_Thunder@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    A bisexual friend of mine said mostly straight with a dash of gay

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