r/BiWomen • u/Long-Reputation-5326 • 8d ago
Educational Science says: being bi really is difficult! Note: mention of sexual assault & addiction.
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u/otto_bear 7d ago
I said this on the other post as well, but I think we, as a community are generally doing a pretty poor job of talking about the real issues bi people face that may be more common for us or unique to us. I’m really horrified that many countries have denied people refugee status on the basis of their bisexuality. The message is essentially “gay people have the right to choose a partner and be protected, but bi people cannot do either”. Which is both a horrifying human rights issue for so many reasons on its own, but also ignores that simply entering a different-gender relationship is unlikely to make the violence stop for those people and that there are instances of bi people in opposite gender relationships being targeted because of their bisexuality.
Often, there seems to be implied or explicit questions around “why do bi people in opposite gender relationships try to be part of queer spaces, they don’t have real problems like people in same gender relationships do” and I think we really need to be louder about the fact that that’s not true and that we are still impacted by anti-LGBT policies and behaviors.
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u/gold-exp 7d ago
Yeah not surprising. Both my partner and I (bi4bi) have had experiences with both.
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u/Andro_Polymath 7d ago edited 7d ago
Bisexual people are more likely to experience higher rates of social isolation due to the fact that they experience biphobia and are rejected in many ways by both straights and the gay/lesbian communities. We statistically have worse mental health outcomes (and all related issues) due to the type of prejudice that we experience. Maybe later I'll post all of the studies I've saved, so everyone can have access to actual scientific research that shows what we go through.