I don’t think it comes from the god pan, it’s just too similar to ignore. This isn’t abstract this is my identity. I can see the flaws in bi, but I resent being ordered to change how I describe myself to something that has such ugly connotations because some people have essentially redefined what bi means.

It’s like…

I don’t think there is a single culture anyone can name with no concept like gender, but many human societies exist without notions of race. The black and white notions of race we have in the US were basically made up about 300 years ago. Gender has been around so long it seems to have no beginning. (just because…

But most black kids are ALREADY taught to be more cautious around police. Ask any black parent if they have had to talk about this. Black people are expected to show an unreasonably high level of submissiveness. I have been yelled at by a cop for asking a question in the most polite manner imaginable while dressed…

Race for black people in the U.S. is not just a social construct, it’s also our ethnicity and history. Race has two roles for black people in the U.S. but for most white people their ethnic identity and family history can be treated almost separately from race. This is why I think it is easier for white people to…

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What grades or ages are middle schoolers? we’re I grew up it was just 7th and 8the grade so ages 12-14 that’s when most people hit puberty and start having sexy feelings. my middle school was filled with horn dogs and we got to school dances so... I thought it was normal

I went to an all girls school until 7th grade, the start of middle school. Then I switched to coed. I had been suspecting that I was gay and I was pretty bummed out about it since I thought it meant I would never be able to run for political office (being a black girl seemed like enough obstacles, but I thought I…

I no longer say “either gender” or “both genders” as it implies that everyone needs to fit into one gender or the other and some people do not identify that way. I still say bisexual though, bi as an identity was a real turning point for me. It never I burned to me it could seem to mean just two genders, to me the bi…

There are white people with passing folks in their family trees and they don’t know it. Do they become black if they find out. (this isn’t hypothetical I have a case in mind that I know about)

Why build a “sexuality” around bigotry? If that what bi means then all bi people are bigots.

“bi people who aren’t interested in trans people or gender queer people”

That seems really strange to me. I don’t get it. I guess there must be people like this, but it seems transphobic more than anything.

pan is also a greek god who embodies TONS of stereotypes about bi people.

Only to people who insist that bi means you are only attracted to two genders. I have never known a bi person like that. To me this is an obnoxious, pedantic reading of the word with no connection to its history. Bi doesn’t mean two anymore than gay means happy.

Furthermore the term “pan” is REALLY problematic. I could…

So black people who can pass as white aren’t really black? I don’t thin RD is black, but that’s because she has no connection to the history.

I think it’s a very good question. Also I know people who look JUST LIKE this women and they are black. They have black parents, black names ... but they could likely pass.

So, I think this test is too damn simple.

I want to know what *you* mean by it.

Maybe she doesn’t see herself as bi (or pansexual as the kids are calling it now), and that’s cool, I just really hope that this quasi-gay thing isn’t that thing where bi people magically stop being bi if we get in a long term monogamous relationship with the opposite sex.

I’m not apologizing for not dating every…

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I don’t know of any societies without a notion of gender, but many people live without ideas about race.

For me it’s not this. It’s the nature of race and ethnicity. Black Americans dependent from slaves like myself do not have an ethnic identity separate from our race. This is a function of the nature of slavery, you can’t know where you are from beyond “west Africa” (a diverse place)

This confluence of race and…

White people have been accusing each other of white guilt since forever.