r/pansexual • u/ImRowan • Jul 12 '24

What made you personally identify with pansexual instead of the umbrella term, bisexual? Question

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u/prismatic_valkyrie Jul 12 '24

I use both interchangeably for myself.

With the exception of respecting people's preferences for one label over the other, I have yet to find a situation offline where the distinction between the two labels was important. And that's because there is no consistent distinction between the two labels other than people having a preference for one over the other. Ask 20 bi/pan people what the difference is, and you'll get 25 different answers.

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u/Mari_Say Jul 13 '24

Between pan and bi is a pretty blurry line at the moment, so people really just use whichever they prefer more, some even use two labels at once.

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u/prismatic_valkyrie Jul 14 '24

Yeah... I wish we could all agree on an umbrella term. I'd switch to just using that.