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lesbians dismantling the biphobia in our dating circles. don’t let someone get away with saying “I just don’t date bi’s.” push back. stand up for your sisters.
Speaking as a bi woman, date whoever you want. Noone is entitled to your attraction, affection or body. Not wanting to date bi people is not biphobia. Rejecting us from LGBT+ spaces and services is biphobia. Dismissing the high suicide rates is biphobia. Lesbians not wanting to date us is not biphobia
The mentality that not wanting to date a certain type of person is discriminatory is rapey as fuck. Do I think it’s close minded? Yes. A little silly? Yes. But not biphobic.
Hi, I understand where you’re coming from here. Certainly individuals not dating certain other individuals doesn’t have the same severity of impact as high rates of suicide, rejection of services, and partner abuse.
And, certainly, someone can date or not date, have sex with or not have sex with, etc. whomever. No one needs to justify why; we all have the right to do and not do what we want.
However, excluding an entire group of people based on one characteristic *is* discrimination. It’s prejudice, and in this case, we can call that prejudice biphobia. It doesn’t mean every lesbian is required to date a bi person. It just means that they should probably examine where their decision to only date one specific type of woman is coming from, especially in the context of anti-bisexual sentiment in the lesbian community.
Although I wasn’t the admin of this blog when that post was made, the amount of people misconstruing it to mean “you’re required to say yes to every bi person who’s into you” is really concerning and I want to emphasize that that was not the sentiment. Instead, the sentiment was encouraging lesbians to ask others in the community, “why do you exclude women only because they’re bi?” And “what is it about bi women that makes you think they’re all not worth your time?” Because I think these are important conversations to have.
