The “bi” is for both homosexual and heterosexual relations. Not gender itself.
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MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 1 day agoDoesn’t the name imply only two?
Okokimup@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Sure but it can be interpreted as “people who share my gender” and “people who do not share my gender.”
percent@infosec.pub 23 hours ago
This is off-topic, but… For some reason, that reminded me of a funny exchange I had with someone who was buying a lottery ticket, years ago…
Me: “What are the chances that you’ll win?”
Him, with a heavy southern accent: “50/50. You either win or you don’t.”
Planchette_Phantom@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
That’s because it’s an extremely old term; it merely refers to someone who is attracted to more than one gender.
blargh513@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Ok but did we really need yet another term that is difficult to distinguish from pre-existing terms?
When you have to write an essay to describe it, that should be a clue.
Planchette_Phantom@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Bisexual is the original term. This is common knowledge.
Carnelian@lemmy.world 1 day ago
A clue to what? That some concepts take more than one second to explain?
bellsfry@thelemmy.club 1 day ago
Actually it originally refers to having two sexes. Aka hermaphroditic.
I really hate how the word “sexual” has evolved in meaning into “relating to the activity that evolved to happen between the two main sexes”. We have the perfectly good Greek root “ero” and for some reason we have gradually muddled up the meaning of “sexual”.
anotherspinelessdem@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
It does, but definitive often diverge from the original over time
FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
No it implies once every other week
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synae@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 hours ago
Well then what’s semisexual?? I’ll never get this figured out
meekah@discuss.tchncs.de 19 hours ago
that means you like large trucks for hauling commercial goods
Test_Tickles@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Ahhh, so pansexual means that you like half man, half goat people who play the flute? Or is it that you get an erection at the thought of buying new kitchen ware?
BCsven@lemmy.ca 23 hours ago
Or twice a week?
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Too real.
MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 23 hours ago
Shit, that’s the rough life. I’ll take the twice a week definition instead please, Trebek.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
That’d be semi-weekly.
laurelraven@lemmy.zip 12 hours ago
You mean semi-sexual?