idk how to say it but 25 semi structured interviews of folks who got internet brainrot is not research. you’re just picking data you want to correlate your conclusion.
BAB’s (battle axe bisexuals) always claim that pansexuals have hurt bisexuals. Or that pansexuals have held back bisexual rights.
The problem is they can’t actually explain to me how pansexuals have ever hurt the bisexual community in any meaningful way. They assume that pansexuals are trying to somehow invalidate the identity of bisexuals.
This is just straight up wrong. As someone who identifies as bisexual I refuse to remain silent on pansexual erasure within the lgbt community. The amount of panphobia I see on tumblr needs to stop. This discourse gets us no where and we are literally just punching ourselves. Pansexuals are friends to bisexuals not enemies.
I’ll tell you the biggest way pansexuality has hurt the bisexual community: perpetuating the idea that bisexuality is limited, regressive, and exclusionary.
You’ll see TONS of pieces of media that actively shame bisexuality and praise pansexuality for being better or more progressive.
I personally know bisexuals (as well has myself) who have experienced biphobia at the hands of pansexuals.
We’re told we’re not actually bi, we have our identity redefined, we’re told we’re transphobic, we have our identity questioned and invalidated constantly.
Also, pansexuality has done a NUMBER on bisexual history. Pansexuality has been the lead (and let’s be honest, one of if not the ONLY) contributor to the redefining of bisexuality, the rewriting of bi history, and the defamation of the bisexual identity.
“We bisexuals tend to define bisexuality in ways that are unique to our own individuality. There are as many definitions of bisexuality as there are bisexuals. Many of us choose not to label ourselves anything at all, and find the word ‘bisexual’ to be inadequate and too limiting.” -The Bisexual Manifesto
The idea that pansexuality erases bisexuality is not only biphobic but wrong. Fuck off panphobe
BAB’s (battle axe bisexuals) always claim that pansexuals have hurt bisexuals. Or that pansexuals have held back bisexual rights.
The problem is they can’t actually explain to me how pansexuals have ever hurt the bisexual community in any meaningful way. They assume that pansexuals are trying to somehow invalidate the identity of bisexuals.
This is just straight up wrong. As someone who identifies as bisexual I refuse to remain silent on pansexual erasure within the lgbt community. The amount of panphobia I see on tumblr needs to stop. This discourse gets us no where and we are literally just punching ourselves. Pansexuals are friends to bisexuals not enemies.
As someone who identifies as bisexual. I really hate seeing other bisexuals on tumblr deciding to collectively shit on pansexuals for no good reason.
And the thing I want to ask them is why? Pansexuals don not hurt the lgbt community whatsoever. To all my pansexual peeps out there I want you to know that I love you and will not judge you for choosing to identify as pansexual. Ultimately I do not care why chose your label. You have the right to identify as bisexual, pansexual, both, or neither.
I just don’t see a good argument for why the pansexual label is harmful. It’s just another to view attraction that involves being attracted to more than one gender. People who are quick to point out how the definition of pansexual is bad fail to realize that the definition of bisexual isn’t that great either. We shouldn’t look down upon and act like people who choose different labels are bad people who deserve to be mocked and talked down upon within the community.
Anyway BAB’s (battle-axe bisexuals) can go fuck themselves.
