Anonymous wrote:Young girls (mainly, but a few young men as well) calling themselves bi so they can also identify as "queer" because they want to be cool and part of an oppressed group.

The great thing about being bi is that you can never act on it but no one can challenge you.

The above is a ridiculous statement by a clueless idiot. You can ignore it.

I'll be happy when we get rid of this "bi" term. No need to reinforce the harmful myth of the binary.

I'm pansexual. But I don't go around discussing it. Mainly because I assume my romantic/sexual proclivity is boring to anyone but myself.

I think most people are somewhat bi, or would be, given the opportunity. I also think people tend to decide what they like over time and what they like changes over time. I would love to see all the identitarian talk (at least in UMC liberal environments) evolve past the stage where it's something to be celebrated and just become something that is. Your seventh grader is not "brave" for being pan. They are twelve. That's it.

I am 28 almost 29 and came out summer of 2020, as a mom of a toddler and baby. I didn't do it because it was fashionable, but it being "fashionable" helped me come out. Both of my sisters came out at that time too. Since then I've only had 1 girlfriend but I'm hoping to explore more. She was 29 and had just come out too. I'm thankful that COVID helped me in that department, lots of time to watch spicy content online and get in touch with my sexual interests.

A lot of the women I talk to have come out in the past few years. They all seem secure in really wanting sex with women. My children's father is hetero flexible, he won't date men but I know he hooks up with them. He will never come out to family/friends, but I know he's been that way since before COVID.

Anonymous wrote:Oh my heavens, has anyone noticed that since COVID more and more men and women are identifying as bisexual or bicurious. What has lead to this open-minded explosion of sexual identity?

Maybe it’s not that they were fewer people before. Maybe it’s that you didn’t know how many people that were before.

I had this thought about special needs…. Wondering why all of a sudden so many more people had kids with special needs; and I realized how much more global we are And how I have more insight to anonymous peoples’ lives than I used to.

The same can be said about mental illness, police brutality, etc. people are a lot more comfortable, saying it out loud admitting to it. and we just know so much more today than we did before.

I think Covid taught a lot of us that life is short we had a lot of time to sit and think about who we really are and wanting to be our authentic selves.

For me, with the support of society norms changing I felt comfortable finally saying out loud how unhappy I was. I quit my job and decided I wanted to spend more time with my kids and husband and moved to be a little closer to my aging parents. I now refuse to spend two hours a day in traffic working a job and I don’t love to afford a lifestyle that just made me want more and put me in a city six hours away from the family that I only saw two or three times year and mainly at stressful times.

That is what I kept for the past 15 years. I can only imagine what it was like for someone who was not able to love who they wanted to for fear of what other people would think and how they would be treated

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know how.
I don’t know why.

I hadn't seen that but I really liked it. That song argues against all the most common biphobic sentiments you see (many of which are in this thread). A lot more people are bi than folks realize.

I don’t know how.
I don’t know why.

You’re only a few decades behind, OP.

Anonymous wrote:Young girls (mainly, but a few young men as well) calling themselves bi so they can also identify as "queer" because they want to be cool and part of an oppressed group.

The great thing about being bi is that you can never act on it but no one can challenge you.

Slightly different take on it but it’s a way to keep your options open especially for kids that aren’t super into either sex. My kid was bi for 5 years before dating anyone. They did finally date a member of the same sex, but not for very long. I’m not placing any bets on where they eventually land. I don’t honestly care much so long as their partner is generally a decent person.

Anonymous wrote:2012

I don't know. I met guys in the late 80's who claimed to be gay because nothing else got their parent's attention.

2012

Young girls (mainly, but a few young men as well) calling themselves bi so they can also identify as "queer" because they want to be cool and part of an oppressed group.

The great thing about being bi is that you can never act on it but no one can challenge you.

People had a lot of time on their hands to think about how they were feeling. A lot of people grew up in a time where being queer was considered bad. Bisexual people especially would stay closeted because they had straight relationships available and pushed the feelings down deep. To me, the fact that more people are accepting they’re queer and coming out is good for all of us. I’ve been out as bi for 20 years.

https://mashable.com/article/covid-coming-out-queer-lgbtq-pandemic#

Oh my heavens, has anyone noticed that since COVID more and more men and women are identifying as bisexual or bicurious. What has lead to this open-minded explosion of sexual identity?