Very Serious Responses To Unintelligent Insults

I have a couple of sexy Anons awaiting answers, so this is just a quick post to make sure you know that I haven’t forgotten you, I am cradling your messages close to my chest and crooning at them, but they deserve well thought out responses so I making sure you get nothing but the best.

Nothing but the best for my handsome greyfaces, I tells ya.

On a side note, soon this blog will have reached 1,000 followers!

CAN YOU IMAGINE? 1,000 people who somehow manage to be attention seeking and non-existent at the same time!! (Not counting all our cool Bi-Bros simply supporting the cause. Props, guys, props.) In honour of this momentous occasion I am half wondering if we should do something special, but I’ll be damned if I can think of anything.

If you have any suggestions on how to mark this truly special event, then please get on to me and we’ll hash this baby out!

Peace Out, Yo

Well, I don’t know how your day is going, but I finally grew a pair of boobs, and sent my Gender, Cultural and Sexual Bias in the Law Professor, Professor Marcia McCormick, the link to this site!

I wrote my thesis for her class on bisexual erasure and invisibility, and before delving into the research involved, I had no idea of the amount of stigma associated with our sexuality, nor the amount of prejudice that exists in the LGBT Community against bisexuals.

On top of that, this lady teaches one hell of a class, and I walked away at the end of the year roughly 200% more aware of social injustice in the world!

But let’s bring it back to the bi’s, for a hot second. 

You guys know I generally don’t like to get serious, but this is a goddamn serious topic we’ve got here.

Did you guys know that, according to the San Fransiscan Human Rights Commisions investigation into bisexual erasure,

• In a 2007 survey of 768 self-identified lesbians, gays, and bisexuals, approximately half of LGB people self-identified as bisexual, including about one-third of the men and two-thirds of the women.
• A longitudinal study of sexual minority women (lesbian, bisexual, or unlabeled) found that over 10 years, more women adopted bisexual/unlabeled identities than relinquished them. Of those who began the study identifying as bisexual, 92% identified as bisexual or unlabeled 10 years later. 
• Bisexuals report higher rates of hypertension, poor or fair physical health, smoking, and risky drinking than heterosexuals or lesbians/gays. 
• Bisexual women in relationships with monosexual partners have an increased rate of domestic violence compared to women in other demographic categories. 

 And that’s not all, I’m afraid.

As Emily Dievendorf outlines in her article, the stigma, or biphobia, that comes with being bisexual has serious consequences.

• Bisexuals have higher incidences of depression, suicidal thoughts and attempts, alcohol and drug abuse, and poor physical health in general than their heterosexual, gay and lesbian counterparts.
• Discrimination against bisexuals is greater in the workforce. While lesbians earn 2.7% less than straight men, bisexual women earn nearly 11% less.
• Bisexuals actually experience increased amounts of mental stress in urban areas as opposed to isolated rural areas, in contrast with their gay or lesbian counterparts. This is because the resources and support groups for monosexual memebers of the LGBT groups available in urban areas are still likely to be nowhere to be found for bisexuals.

That’s what bisexual erasure is, people. The fact that we’re hurting just as much as any other LGBT group out there, and we don’t even know it.

On top of that, you’ve got the fact that we’re not accurately represented in the media - We’re either just attention seeking, or lusty, dim, sexed-up nymphettes  (Huh? What’s that you say? …Hahah MALE BISEXUALS?? Are you CRAZY?? I swear, there should be a “Once you’re gay, you’re gay, there ain’t no going back!” TV trope). Then there’s all the wonderous biphobic prejudices that exist, mainly due to the sudden surge in popularity for the ever present ‘performative-bisexuality’, as I like to call it. (Yep. Thanks Katy Perry. Way to support the cause.)

Woah. That got deep.  Real deep.

All right guys, your Irregular Information Injection (this is now a thing) is over, back to putting on tiaras and eating chocolate sauce covered everything while we neaten the garden with our fellow bisexuals! 

Basically, back to my Professor, and how she is going to be visiting this blog. When I first set this up, I told her exactly what I was doing, but also added that if I knew she had seen a picture of me stuffing four chicken wings into my mouth at once, I wouldn’t be able to make eye-contact with her ever again.

She said she understood.

However, I’m in a different country now, so those concerns are behind me!

So she’s going to see me with four chicken wings in my mouth at the same time, smearing cake on my face, making blatant use of profanity and consistently misusing capital letters in sentences.

ALL FOR A GOOD CAUSE THOUGH.

So everybody sit up straight, look nice, and wipe the chocolate sauce off your face okay