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Post A Reply Login Name: Password: Message Icon:                                                                       Message: HTML is not enabled. UBB Code™ is enabled. UBB Code™ Images not permitted. [QUOTE]Originally posted by Jill2000Plus: [QB] Yeah, I think it ends up being a bit like the whole "well technically homophobia means fear of the same?" which 99% of the time is bought up by someone who doesn't want there to be a word to describe their own prejudices. I don't think the discussion of the potential gender-binary reinforcement implications of the word bisexual is exactly the same thing, but sometimes it can unintentionally have that effect, plus, homo/heterosexual people don't tend to get so much grief about the gender binary implied by their orientation labels. Some people who identify as bisexual actually literally are bisexual - only attracted to people who identify their gender in binary terms. And the thing about pansexual is that though it's not right that people have this attitude, it's still got those connotations of paedophilia and attraction to animals to many people (as that was the original meaning of the term), so can you blame bisexuals for shying away from it? [/QB][/QUOTE]

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