Bisexuals: The Outcasts of Outcasts.

[Zen Toombs]

Spoiler: Sup.

I've never personally faced discrimination for my bisexuality, and only once for not being straight.

Oddly, I once had a horrifically homophobic roomate.

Spoiler: This is the tale...

I had met this person a day or two earlier. He was playing Halo multiplayer at the time.

Roomie: [insert homophobic slurs]

5 minutes later​

Roomie: [insert more homophobic slurs, as well as several comments that defy both biology and physics]
Toombs: Hey, you've been using that word a lot. Do you have a problem with gay people?
Roomie: Yes. He responded immediately.

One moment of stunned silence later​

Toombs: Erm, you do know I'm bi, right?
Roomie: Nah, man. You're cool.
Toombs: 0.o

 

[Bara_no_Hime]

Also that there isn't a lot of known adult bisexuals (at least that I know of,) there are for gays and straights so the whole "It's just a faze" thing carries more justification to them.

I'm 31, and I'm bisexual.

My spouse is 32, and also bisexual.

There are plenty of adult bisexuals out there.

OT: Maybe I just went to a very bi-friendly college, but I never had that problem. Most of my friends were bi, with a few straight and a few gay to add variety. I've heard about the whole "bisexuals being treated badly" thing, and even seen it elsewhere, but I've honestly never had a big issue with it. Again, maybe I just live in a bi-friendly area?

What I've encountered more is the bisexual community attacking itself, splintering into subgroups within bisexual. I get that being bi is one of those "normal labels don't fit me" things, but sheesh.

 

[WeAreStevo]

I'd even venture to say that Trans people are also in the same boat as Bi-sexuals. I know quite a bit of gay and lesbian people (living next to SF makes that much easier) that for god knows what reason don't like bisexual people or trans people. Then my trans friends feel completely left out, as do my bisexual friends.

It's something that I don't quite get, but I suppose it's how some groups don't like all components of said group.

Regardless of reason, I think it's stupid to hate someone who is bisexual based on that alone. But then again, this is my philosophy for hating anyone...

 

[Versuvius]

Where i live being Bi is one of those fashion things where blokes adopt it because girlfriends find it cute and women adopt it because they will fuck anything. I'm not saying all Bi people are shallow/sluts. But that some shallow people/sluts call themselves Bi. I also know genuinely gay or bi people. But that is what i have observed. So no..they are not outcasts, just some are liars and should shut up.

 

[.No.]

What would asexuals be? The outcasts of outcasts of outcasts?

 

[Jake0fTrades]

People are weird. I don't pretend to understand why they do these things.

 

[Ilikemilkshake]

The main stigma about Bi's from where i live is that they're only "Bi" for the attention.
95% of Bi's i know are actually just teenage girls who think it'll make them cool if they kiss girls at parties.
But i've never seen any discrimination against ACTUAL Bi folk. (at least not from non straight folk)

 

[Alexander Bradley]

The question is why is this news to anyone? People have been persecuted for a number of reasons since the dawn of time. Usually under the excuse of "you're different from me" in varying forms. So, if being gay, bisexual, straight, or asexual floats your boat, then go be the best one or all of the above you can be. People will ALWAYS judge you, no matter what. So it's best not to take most of the flak you get to heart.

 

[Nimcha]

The way i see it, isn't everyone one?

I Mean, ive no idea who im going to fall in love with. Nobody does. Nobody can (Unless you can travel into the future!)
I know for a fact right now i love the ladies, but who knows what the future will hold.

OT: I Agree with the OP. It's a bit hypocritical to be doing that.

You. Observe:

I've observed this too. I've also observed some bisexual people being obnoxious with their claims that everybody is 'a little bisexual'.

In short: people can be close-minded whatever their sexuality.

I can understand that the claim that everyone is 'a little bisexual' might get grating at a certain point, but is it really all that wrong? The Kinsey scale insists that very few people are perfectly straight or gay. On the other hand, it is possible to simply have zero attraction to one sex.

The Kinsey Scale is also very old and quite outdated.

 

[BreakfastMan]

Asexual people have it just as bad, what with all the "they don't actually exist", and "they just say that because they can't get any" stuff that gets thrown around.

But yeah, that is pretty stupid. I don't know why the hell people would believe that. I guess people even people who are supposed to be "tolerant" can discriminate.

 

[ZippyDSMlee]

Sexuality is awesome and bisexauls are the hottest of the hot!!!1111
Sadly I am just a dumb fat white guy who likes girls ><

 

[jboking]

The Kinsey Scale is also very old and quite outdated.

How is it outdated as a scale of sexual orientation? I feel it should probably include Asexual, which it doesn't, but how else?

Asexual people have it just as bad, what with all the "they don't actually exist", and "they just say that because they can't get any" stuff that gets thrown around.

I hadn't actually considered Asexual people. That is a wonderful point and a great note of a much overlooked minority. I'm sure there are some out there who actively identify as asexual, and could, in fact, get some.

 

[jboking]

Sexuality is awesome and bisexauls are the hottest of the hot!

That viewpoint would actually be part of the problem for bisexuals. It's overused by celebrities and those seeking attention that bisexuality gets looked at as something that doesn't really exist. Just thought I'd through that out there.

 

[Sean Steele]

I think its because people think of sexuality as a pure dichotomy like a light switch or binary something can be one or the other, which is rather silly because nothing (Besides artificial constructs) tends to work that way, most things just seem polar because the majorities exist at the poles.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Argh, yes...seems so bizarre, but then it's so commonplace. Gay hatred and denial of bisexuals is a good example, but you see this everywhere...and I do mena everywhere.

There seems to be a fair few people around that are afraid of various different civil rights groups, on the basis that all the minorities will band together and take other, which is hilariously/tragically far from the truth.

Rights groups tend to want rights for one group, and are perfectly happy to fuck other anyone and everyone else...people fighting for equality tend to mean equality for them and everyone above them, and to hell with everyone else.

 

[SuperfastJellyfish]

I just see it as someone who will take what they can get, really. And well, being gay; I look at it sorta like I do those teenage girls who go Pagan. They can celebrate the same holidays and still say they're religious without being Christian.

 

[incal11]

The true "gets thrown into jail" and "pictured as monsters and degenerates" type of outcasts I know of are the omnisexuals. Or if you prefer: the absolute perverts who are shocked at nothing, with an "as long as it's good" mentality.

There are many sexologists who believe we all start our lives as pan- or omnisexuals, and then are molded by various social pressures. It really would solve a lot of personal issues if people stopped caring about those particular pressures. Anyway, are these really essential to the stability of our civilisation ?

 

[JoesshittyOs]

I think someone who labels themselves as "bisexual" is gonna get shit. Because in reality, everyone is a little bisexual. The way we dress, the way we view television actors, all of that is stemmed off of attraction we get off of the same gender, and the need to apply it to ourselves.

It's hard to explain it, but in a way, it exists because it doesn't really exist. Bisexuality really implies that you are hot for both genders, yet it is viewed as "unequal" because there is no end game. Not many cultures and societies are all to hot on having more than one partner. Being bisexual pretty much implies that you can't settle down.

But for fuck's sake, I don't see why anyone would care. I literally can't bring myself to care about who is fucking who on the weekends.