“Sometimes our dating history doesn’t align with how we identify – and that’s okay…”
I’ve actually been told that because bisexual people can be attracted to more than one gender, we must be attracted to everyone, apparently. Yes, you read that right. Every. Single. Person.
This false belief is very damaging – it's rooted in the idea that bi people won’t reject anyone’s sexual advances. Of course this is not true and, in reality, bisexual are significantly more likely to be survivors of sexual harassment, as Just Like Us’“As a bisexual woman, I’ve been fetishised and slut-shamed, simply for choosing to label myself as bi and exist as my authentic self.”
In fact, being attracted to people of more than one gender doesn’t necessarily mean we are attracted to more people than a straight, gay or lesbian person would be. Plus, attraction can depend on so many different factors –I’ve also been told that, because we’re apparently attracted to more people, we must be ‘more likely to cheat on our partners’. This false narrative also contributes to the stereotype that bi people are greedy by nature.
“Bisexual women are often perceived to be straight, and bisexual men are often believed to be gay – the presumption is often that everyone must simply be interested in men.” I’ve been told that maybe I’m just trying to ‘catch a boy’s attention’, ‘play hard to get’, or ‘seem more interesting.’ I’ve lost count of the amount of times I’ve heard ‘you’ll pick a side, eventually.’ Hearing this made me feel invalidated. In the past, before I was confident in my sexuality, I've even doubted myself and my feelings when other people told me we aren't real. Imagine that!
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