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Title: Bisexuality does not reinforce the gender binary
Post by: Natasha on May 18, 2011, 05:20:26 PM
Post by: Natasha on May 18, 2011, 05:20:26 PM
Bisexuality does not reinforce the gender binary
http://www.thescavenger.net/glb/bisexuality-does-not-reinforce-the-gender-binary-39675.html (http://www.thescavenger.net/glb/bisexuality-does-not-reinforce-the-gender-binary-39675.html)
5/18/11. Last update:07:35:09 AM GMT
Increasingly these days, I come across people who are ostensibly bisexual—in that they partner with both women and men—but who refuse to identify with that term.
Now this, in and of itself, is not necessarily a bad thing, as words (and especially identity labels) evolve over time and invariably go in and out of fashion.
What does bother me, however, is the explanation that is often given for this lack of identification: That the word bisexual supposedly "reinforces the gender binary," or "reinforces the notion that there are only two genders."
As a bisexual-identified trans woman*, I find this argument extremely problematic for a number of reasons.
http://www.thescavenger.net/glb/bisexuality-does-not-reinforce-the-gender-binary-39675.html (http://www.thescavenger.net/glb/bisexuality-does-not-reinforce-the-gender-binary-39675.html)
5/18/11. Last update:07:35:09 AM GMT
Increasingly these days, I come across people who are ostensibly bisexual—in that they partner with both women and men—but who refuse to identify with that term.
Now this, in and of itself, is not necessarily a bad thing, as words (and especially identity labels) evolve over time and invariably go in and out of fashion.
What does bother me, however, is the explanation that is often given for this lack of identification: That the word bisexual supposedly "reinforces the gender binary," or "reinforces the notion that there are only two genders."
As a bisexual-identified trans woman*, I find this argument extremely problematic for a number of reasons.
Title: Re: Bisexuality does not reinforce the gender binary
Post by: Miniar on May 19, 2011, 05:32:15 AM
Post by: Miniar on May 19, 2011, 05:32:15 AM
And yet the author spends the start of the article explaining how there's only male and female....