4:45pm July 3, 2013

“A lot of the time when you tell someone that you’re bisexual, they ask for your credentials. They ask how many men have you dated? How many women have you dated? Which one do you prefer? Which one have you had more sex with? These are incredibly personal questions that you wouldn’t ask a straight or gay person, but bisexuality has “less validity” so we get asked all these stupid, intimate questions. And if you don’t want to answer then someone will make assumptions about you but if you do answer, and the fact is out of the three people you fucked two of them are one gender and one of them is the other then people will decide whether you are gay or straight, they’ll make the decision for you.”

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Bisexual Credentials-RitchandFamous (via rainbowbreathingbisexual)

Oh, man. While it’s hard to choose between what I’ve come to think of as Bi 20 Questions (you’re not bi without them! Or with them! Or at all; you’re not bi. Don’t you get it?), I think my favorite is one that isn’t mentioned here. I’ve gotten it in a number of different variations: “But what if you end up with a man, won’t you be straight?” and “But what if you end up with a woman, won’t you be a lesbian?” and, of course, the one get really gets to the heart of it, “But what happens when you settle down with someone and really decide?” (For those of you playing along at home, the correct answer to this line of questioning is, “Were you less [your sexuality] when you were a virgin? What about when you were single? No? You weren’t? Fantastic; shut up.”)

The thing is, I’m always so confused about what the goal is with this shit, and I feel like this question — the “But what happens when you end up with someone for a long time??” question — really gets to the heart of why. Because man oh man, I have been asked this question by straight folk and gay folk, peers and superiors, people I’m dating, even a boss one time, and every last one of them has done it the same way: like they’re the Encyclopedia fucking Brown of my sexuality. Like they’ve just uncovered the fatal flaw in my plan to Dupe Good Citizens Into Believing I Like Fucking Dudes & Ladies. Half the time I expect them to point and yell “Aha!” maybe while jumping out of a bush or something for effect.

Like. What is the theory here, folks who do this? Are you just so uncomfortable with the idea of bisexuality that you have to believe it’s all a scheme? Are you so self-obsessed that the thought of me lying about my sexual orientation for the sole purpose of ~pulling the wool over your eyes~ makes more sense to you than that thought that it’s, I don’t know, actually the way I swing? Are you waiting for me to pull off my mask and reveal the monosexual person underneath while yelling, “I would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren’t for those meddling assholes?” Whatever it is, kindly let it the fuck go, will you? Find some other mystery to chase, because I promise you, The Case of Who I Like to Fuck has been solved for a loooong time.

(via gyzym)

tbh i kind of wish somebody WOULD jump out of a bush next time i mean just to break up the monotony

The next time I find myself substantiating, defending, or otherwise explaining away the existence and nature of my sexuality, I want this guy to jump out of a bush. I feel it would be much more visually effective, and far less annoying for me.

(via cellardoorpodfic)

Actually these are questions asked gay people too. Straight people are the only ones who don’t get questioned this way.

Actually when I thought I was bi, people never asked me these questions.

But when I came out as gay, everyone wanted to know if I’d had genital sex with a woman, and/or questioned me because I dated a guy once when I was young and confused and passive among other things.

“How do you know if you’ve never had sex with a woman?”

Total strangers mind you.

I’m sure bi people get it too but I’ve encountered much more questions about being gay for some reason than when I thought I was bi. (In fact thought I had to be bi because I had dated a guy, also because I didn’t think being gay or straight was logical, but then realized such things don’t have to be logical.)

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