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Calling women biphobic for not wanting to date a bi man waters down the term

As a bisexual myself I feel like calling something as trivial as this biphobic just waters down the term. It started out as something to refer to people who say bisexuality doesn’t exist or that refers to bad stereotypes people perpetrate about the bi community and now people use it in response to someone not wanting to date them? Someone can be unattracted to something but not think it’s bad in principle. Unattractive doesn’t mean it’s a moral flaw it just means you’re turned off and it’s ok to be turned off by anything. I’m not attracted to people with high body counts or guys shorter than me. I don’t think a high body count is inherently bad just unattractive to me. Same with being shorter than me

It literally doesn’t matter if someone doesn’t want to date you for being bi. I would say this issue comes up the most in relation to straight women and lesbian women (for Bi women). As long as someone is otherwise an ally who does it even affect if someone doesn’t want to date you. Unless the reason is “bi men are cheaters” then why does it matter? If someone didn’t want to date me because I’m bi I would shrug and move on to someone who doesn’t care.

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