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Re:Why you should never pay for online dating (OkCupid) (2010) by pabl8k on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @12:13PM (#33165187)
OK this just feels like this topic is an excuse for you to trot out tired tropes about bi people while scare-quoting the word to delegitimize the orientation.

What you're doing is called bi erasure. It happens from straight and gay people. Bi doesn't necessarily mean attraction or experience is exactly equally split. For some people it is, for some people it isn't. Some people may change how they self describe. None of that means people aren't legitimately bi.

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Re:Why you should never pay for online dating (OkCupid) (2010) by RajT88 on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @12:47PM (#33165595)
I am not trying to de-legitimize anything. Nothing I said changes (or can change) your truth.

My post was based on what I've been told by both Gay and Bi people (the latter, several Bi people I knew complained about the first item with the young women). So if Straight and Gay people can participate in Bi Erasure, so too can Bi people I suppose.

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