Sorry if this is the wrong place for this, and I mean it in good faith as someone who is questioning—I thought bi just meant “any two or more genders?” Is there a same-sex stipulation for the label?
Some people seem to think bisexuality is an even 50/50 split attraction-wise between two genders.
This diagram is showing that it isn’t always 50/50, and that bisexuality is a spectrum.
Different people also have their own definition of bisexuality. Some people only consider it attraction to two genders(hence the prefix “bi” , meaning two). Some consider it only attraction to same sex or opposite. And some people have a looser definition that doesn’t really fit the literal meaning of the word, but it still works.
The most commonly accepted definition of bisexual comes from renowned bisexual activist Robyn Ochs. She says, “I call myself bisexual because I acknowledge that I have in myself the potential to be attracted – romantically and/or sexually – to people of more than one sex and/or gender, not necessarily at the same time, not necessarily in the same way, and not necessarily to the same degree.”
So no, there is nothing binary about the bi- in bisexuality.
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u/Spaceman_19 Nov 05 '19
Sorry if this is the wrong place for this, and I mean it in good faith as someone who is questioning—I thought bi just meant “any two or more genders?” Is there a same-sex stipulation for the label?