#that said if you try to differentiate pan from bi in a way that sheds a bad light on bi-identifying people im gonna have to ask you | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

flaynbestgirl · 2 years

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when are people going to accept that bisexual is basically an umbrella term now, like trans

i mean i know mspec as a thing, but pan and omni and all that basically stemmed off of bi because they didnt understand what it actually meant. and thats fine historically, but we need to understand that we're all fundamentally the same. better together than divided. at this point a lot more people in those communities understand that "bi" doesnt just mean "two" in this context and hasnt since at least 1990.

we are the same and need to bury the hatchet

#that said if you try to differentiate pan from bi in a way that sheds a bad light on bi-identifying people im gonna have to ask you #to reevaluate. there are bis who dont care about genetalia. there are bis who are nb and date nb people.#who are trans and who date trans people. for whom sex and gender do not factor in their attraction.#we are not different. we are the same. idc what label you use just understand that we are the same and stronger together.#kath shouts into the void #personal #not to be all 'i was there gandalf' but i remember way back when people were starting to identify as pan en masse so as to #not be called transphobic it was fucking stupid and awful and rooted in people misunderstanding the bi term both in and outside #the community. there was so much drama and discourse and as i understand it there still is.#i need my fellow bis to understand that for every pan who says 'im not bi cus i would date a trans person' theres like 10 who just say #'i just prefer the flag colours' which is a valid enough reason #but i also need pan people to understand the history of their label and reject those principles and to accept that we are the same #sorry i saw a panphobic post on my dash and it got me riled #cus its like;; as much as its true that pan as a label started off as bi- and transphobic realtalk; a majority of pans arent like that now #or at least none of the ones ive met are #obvs theres bad eggs in each community and the bad bis are arguing w the bad pans but the rest of us dont need to fall for that shit

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