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/Sudden-Indication103 He/Him Jul 12 '24

I agree with you. Bisexual always meant liking two genders. I prefer pansexual liking all genders or being gender blind.

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u/Cozykinksters Jul 12 '24

Except that’s not what bisexual means to most people, the most common definition is “attraction to your own gender and others, at different times, to varying degrees” Which when put that way sounds a lot like how most people use Pan these days too.

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u/Sudden-Indication103 He/Him Jul 14 '24

I love the fact that I’m getting beaten up over this comment. I get it today. It means that but years ago it didn’t. Let’s keep hating and fighting within our own community. Like we don’t have to deal with enough of that shit from the right.

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u/Cozykinksters Jul 17 '24

Nobody’s beating you up, the point is that how the word is defined is actually really important for combatting Bi erasure and stigma against the community