It's pretty amazing how shitty the community can be. I'm not exaggerating when I say I've gotten more support from straight people in recent years, as female bisexuality has become more accepted. I just feel badly for male bisexuals because it's certainly NOT as accepted.

Agreed, completely. Existing in the gray area reminds people that there is a gray area - and a lot of people really don't like that.

It's called experimentation, and I encourage it and think it is healthy. "Don't knock it 'til you try it!". And hell, I'm far more supportive of young people experimenting with other young people rather than those who find out earlier that they are gay/bi/etc having to seek out understanding with an older crowd (as…

I don't think this necessarily comes off as biphobic. What immediately rings in my head is: this is pretty sex negative. So often the LGBTQ community is assumed to be sex positive and very open but this standard has always sounded very...closed. Assessing a future partner by their past partners (health…

Well, the headline is based on what the report says. Of course, it's been said in the comments that the report itself could be skewed because the study is likely skewed: why? Because bisexual teen boys are far less likely to report being bisexual. That's the assertion, anyhow.

Amongst bisexual girls i know, the solution to this seems to (tragically) be that they find it easier just to say "i'm a lesbian".

I've asked, and apparently included in the reasoning for this (aside from getting away from everyone thinking you want to do LITERALLY EVERYONE) - around here anyway - is that lesbian…

I think the thing I found the most hurtful/ strange was that as a bi woman I experienced more bullying at an LGBTQ society I joined than when I had mostly or only straight friends/ peers. Most people in that society were nasty to anyone bisexual, but particularly women, and the bullying came from lesbians. When I'd…

Is their position that because you're married to a man that you cease being attracted to women? Or, are they saying unless you're sleeping with both sexes at the same time then you aren't bisexual? I don't understand how your not having sex with a woman would make you any less bisexual. Just because you're with one…

I think there's a number of things to unpack here that might explain why Bi members of the queer spectrum have so much crap to deal with.

I remembered when I was 21 and went to a bar and knew one of the bartenders and he asked me if I was a gold star gay and I was like, what? What is that? And he asked if I had had sex with women before (which I haven't) and he flipped out on me, in this case how could I not have cause he had before! but the whole thing…

Just wait until you admit you like well-done steak on kitchenette.

These kinds of articles always hit home. I knew I was bi come 6th grade, and I have always been scared. I thought I could come out to gay and lesbian friends, and just hearing them talk about bi people scared me and shocked me. WTF?!!

I think some of the antipathy towards bisexual people comes from the fact that mildly homophobic people who reluctantly accept that being gay isn't a choice still believe that bisexuals could and should choose to act straight. At least, I know my own mother was more comfortable suspecting and assuming I was gay than…

My lesbian sister is obsessed with gold star lesbians. Ugh.

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I agree with you as far as your comment went — but were you going to finish that sentence?

The unclear, undefinable metrics leave us even worse off. There is not one equality-minded straight man for every equality-minded straight woman. There is not one relationship-minded straight man for every relationship-minded straight woman. Also I know about two couples where the man is more conventionally attractive…

This. You don't need to be on-track to be c-suite at Goldman, but you do need to be willing to change a diaper and pick the kids up from school and see the inherent value in all of those things.

It's especially not fair since women continue to make 77 cents for every dollar a man makes for the same job / same work.

THANK you. I'm not looking to be taken care of, but just once I'd like to not have to pick up the entire check. Just once.