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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2019-11-03 02:44 pm

[ SECRET POST #4685 ]


⌈ Secret Post #4685 ⌋

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Re: Unpopular non-fandom opinions

(Anonymous) 2019-11-04 03:15 am (UTC)(link)
Words can mean multiple things at the same time. Especially identity labels! Human identities tend to be complex, overlapping categories, not rigorous logical taxonomies, so it makes sense that there would be complications around them.

With regards to sexual and gender identities, it seems to me that the best policy is to most let people decide for themselves what the best approach is.

Re: Unpopular non-fandom opinions

(Anonymous) 2019-11-04 04:55 am (UTC)(link)
Or, you know, people could stop acting like "bi" is such a dirty word.

Re: Unpopular non-fandom opinions

(Anonymous) 2019-11-04 05:35 am (UTC)(link)
Sure.

That's not the only reason that people choose to identify as other than bi, and you can't force people to identify as bi, so you might as well stop angrily insisting that other people are definitely bi if they don't consider themselves bi.

Re: Unpopular non-fandom opinions

(Anonymous) 2019-11-04 04:32 pm (UTC)(link)
DA

But they ARE bi whether they identify that way or not. That's the point, words have meanings, regardless of whether or not people choose to use them.

Re: Unpopular non-fandom opinions

(Anonymous) 2019-11-04 04:42 pm (UTC)(link)
People have the right to decide whether or not "bi" is the appropriate label for them.

You could insist on describing someone as bi even if they don't wish to be described as bi. I mean, it's a thing you can do, no one's stopping you, and there's obviously some relevant sense in which it's true.

But it's stupid and dickish and disrespectful to do so, and you oughtn't to do it.