Trust
me when I say that sistas are more scheming, lying, and down low than brothas
when it comes to being bisexual. I’m
bisexual and I wear my label proudly. I
can't tell you how many times I've heard women say to me, almost verbatim,
"Well, yes, I am attracted to both men and women but am I really bisexual,
who knows?" Goddamn! I know. If you are attracted to
both men and women, YOUR AZZ IS BISEXUAL. The rejection of the term
bisexual by women is annoying to me when CLEARLY so many women are-- they are
just afraid to admit it. This whole, "I'm not going to say I'm
bisexual because it has a negative connotation," bullshit is a cop
out. There's nothing negative about saying you are bisexual except that
people would rather continue to perpetuate homophobia than admit the
truth.
I
don't drink a lot. I might have a drink once in two or three months,
maybe once or twice a month if I'm being particularly social. Can I claim
that I'm not a drinker? No. Frequency doesn't dictate my "label."
I feel no need to make up another term to describe my drinking habits because I
drink so infrequently. No, I'm not an alcoholic; yes, I am a
drinker. See? No shame in that. I am a non-smoker. I
don't smoke, have never smoked, and have no desire to smoke. I can wear
my non-smoker label proudly. People who smoke socially, or who only smoke
when they are stressed out can't claim that they are non-smokers. They
give up that right when they take a puff. Women who have sex with other
women can't claim that they aren't bisexual because they only let women go down
on them, they don't go down on other women. It just can't work that
way. That's delusional rationalization and unhealthy. No, that's
insanity.
I’ve
heard the ever-popular, “I don’t like labels,” but women NEVER seem to mind the
label of heterosexual, they only have problems with that bisexual label. I always hear, “I am not bisexual because I’m
not attracted to women emotionally, just sexually.” That would be great if we were defining the
word bi-emotional. This sista told me
once that she wasn’t bisexual because she didn’t like the reaction people gave
her when she told them she was bisexual.
Read that again. She wasn’t
bisexual because she didn’t like the reaction people gave her when she told
them she was. How is that logical? Okay, I’m not Black because I don’t like the
way white people treat me. There isn’t a
planet in the universe where that shit makes sense. You can’t define who you are by how other
people treat you.
The
most popular excuse for why women don’t consider themselves bisexual, by far,
is, “I PREFER sex with men.” Well, of
course, if you have sex with a woman and you don’t really enjoy it as much as
you do when you are having sex with a man, that means you earned the right to
be called a heterosexual. RIGHT! The definition of bisexual in the dictionary
is of, relating to, or having a sexual orientation to persons of either sex. Nowhere does it say, “only if you initiate
sex with persons of the same sex.”
Men I can understand.
Black men are demonized for being bisexual. Bisexual women are exalted in this society,
men’s ultimate objectification fantasy.
We do ourselves a disservice by denying who we are. It’s untruthful and damaging.
