Two-thirds of straight women and one-third of straight men are unwilling to date a bisexual person of the opposite sex, according to a YouGov poll published today, during Bisexuality Visibility Week. The poll illustrates how lingering stereotypes negatively affect people’s impressions of bisexual individuals.
The poll — which surveyed 5,983 Britons during late March, including 2,031 straight women and 1,517 straight men — found that 48% of all respondents had positive views of bisexual people and only 8% had negative views. The remaining percentage had neither a positive nor a negative view of bisexuals.
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When the survey asked straight women and men why they were unwilling to date a bisexual person of the opposite sex, most (16% and 19%, respectively) said they “just don’t” or claimed, “It’s just a preference.”
A nearly similar portion, 17% of straight women and 16% of straight men, said they felt like bi people are more inclined to cheat, or that they themselves would feel insecure that they’d be unable to provide a bi partner whatever they get from a same-sex partner.
Interestingly, 9% of straight women said they feel disgust or discomfort towards men with same-sex experiences, 8% worried about possible sexual health risks, and 10% of straight men said they considered bisexuality to be either religiously or morally “wrong.” Approximately 12-13% of all straight respondents said they just wanted their dating partner to be heterosexual.
Sociology concepts named “something-phobia” are not the same thing as the similarly named concepts (classified in the “phobia” family) in psychology and psychatry.
Usually, meaning can vary with context. The discussed field in such a context.
So what you’re saying is that enough people couldn’t care less for the actual meaning of the word that we’re all now supposed to accept it. Gotcha.
“Chocolatine”, “pain au chocalat”, “croissant au chocolat”, ou “petit pain”? (Edit to answer: all are valid, it is simply a regional dialect thing.) Is a tomato a fruit or a vegetable? (Edit to answer: it depends on the field. A vegetable in gastronomy, a fruit in biology, where “vegetable” doesn’t even exist.)
Your interventions on the topic of biphobia are as valuable as these pseudo-debates. Keep your language normative freezing for your own expression, instead of policing the language of other people, and diverting from the heart of the discussed topic (again, biphobia).
EDIT: and I will not engage with you anymore.
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If someone meant something in particular by the words they used, your preference for different word definitions/usage does not change what they meant. So yeah, accepting that people mean what they mean is good, because the options are just understanding or not understanding.
Well yeah, that’s how semantic drift happens and it only seems weird because you’re thinking about it,so much of the core of our language exists because of historic examples just like this.
Except that this is not some new meaning or word. It’s just misuse.
Bi-phobia encompasses negative attitudes, beliefs, and behaviours towards bisexual individuals. It manifests in various forms, including erasure of bisexuality, stereotyping, harassment, and exclusion. This prejudice often stems from misconceptions and societal stigmas surrounding non-monosexual orientations.
Exactly, negative attitudes. Being polyamorous, liking threesomes or being promiscuous is not a negative thing, it’s just a preference. Hence why this is just simple prejudice, not “biphobia”.
Encompasses negative attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors towards bisexual individuals.
negative
I know it’s just one word but it’s not that hard to miss.
That’s one part of the sentence, not the whole thing.
It is, but it also gives context to the words that follow.
Thanks for confirming you don’t know how commas work.
So if I believe bi people are wonderful people, I now have a (non-negative) belief towards them. I am being biphobic?
Let’s put this conversation into perspective.
Men that date bisexual women because they think she will gift them a threesome because she is bisexual are leaning into harmful bisexual stereotypes. That is biphobia.
Almost like languages change over time, amiright?
Doth thou jest with me?