Bisexual Visibility Day

[sonia]

Hey, we get a day! I identify as bisexual, which means that gender isn't a strong determiner of whom I'm attracted to.

This doesn't mean I'm endorsing a gender binary in any way. In fact, if there were a term for being attracted to people somewhere in the squishy middle of gender spectra, I might be one of those.

Comments

[minoanmiss]

My favorite definition of bisexual, the one I identify with anywy, is "attracted to members of the gender one identifies with and also people of other genders." I feel general differences in my attraction to people I identify as women and people I identify as other genders, but more generally, there are a lot of attractive people in the world.

[sonia]

Ah, I like that. It neatly sidesteps the gender binary issue and leaves it behind in a steaming heap.

It gets surprisingly sticky for me around "gender I identify with," given that I walk around as a cisgender woman. As I posted about in the past, I don't feel like I do a good job of performing "woman" the way society expects, so then I have to amend the definition of my gender to feel successful at it, so then "others of my gender"???

(Going back to that old post did remind me that I have the perfect icon for this conversation!)