Respectfully, bisexuality is a sexuality and not automatically a political performance.
A woman can't "claim" bisexuality and then have sex with both women and men. She just is bisexual.
Considering patriarchy, the way that men pressure and coerce women to "settle down with a man," the common self-hatred that bisexual women feel - including the fear that by existing and having feelings for other women, we might harm them because being bisexual is somehow "unclean" in some way - it's not fair at all to squint at bisexual women accuse them of being "exploitative and fetishistic."
There is also the very simple, very human situation of a bisexual woman having consensual, no/low-strings attached sex with another woman, that fizzling out, and then coming across a man that she clicks with and starts a relationship with.
Or are we saying that a bisexual woman who is rejected by a lesbian and then who eventually partners with a man is somehow offensive for... some hypothetical lesbian hypothetically thinking, "Actually, she's not for me because I want a girlfriend who loves rockclimbing and she prefers walking on the beach"?
I don't know how there's anything feminist about accusing bisexual women, the ones who are fetishised by men as being hypersexual and forever consenting, about being sexual deviants who exploit other women.
Even as a straight woman looking in from the outside, I can't help but be offended by women who claim bisexuality but say they are attracted to women and will fuck them but will only be in a committed relationship/partner up with a male. It seems exploitative and fetishistic.
I embroidered a Monstera leaf as a gift.
Here it is twinning with the Monstera in the gift receiver´s house 🥰
See how close I came to running out of green thread under the cut:
It was so close, I´m glad I made it 💗
I hate it for all the women with endo so much.
All the articles are different. The oldest is 2013-2014, the freshest is December 2024.
i promise it is not subversive or satirical to be a caricature of what men think of women. they don't get the "joke" you are literally just reinforcing those beliefs
This one was a workout for my brain 🧠
By: Me 😊
reminder that lesbians are NOT more violent than men and we don't have the highest domestic violence rates. i wish people (mostly men) would stop deliberately misconstruing this
My “all rich people are bad” brother would lose his fucking mind if I said “All men, including you”.
“Errr I don’t exploit you”, oh but when I had to walk to school in a dense black abaya and long hijab under the sweltering heat and you walked alongside me in your loose dress shirt, your privileged ass never showed any meaningful sympathy?
When you got to play sports outside all day but we girls couldn’t because of our restrictive wear and fear of male discrimination and sexual harassment, was it not your privileged ass that didn’t mind?
When we went to the beach and or swimming pools, it wasn’t you that only wore shorts swimming comfortably while I was covered head to toe in my burkini, still being leered at by the creep across the pool so I couldn’t even enjoy myself?
When our male cousin lived with us during the summer, was it not us girls that had to dress modestly and ‘behave’ in our own fucking homes while you played video games shirtless?
When our baby brother was growing up, was it not you that never changed his diaper once in your fucking life despite us being only a year apart in age?
When you started studying Islam just like me, was it not you that accused me of being blasphemous when I brought up concerns about sexism?
You saw obvious discrimination, you experienced privileges and benefitted, and you never once helped. I don’t care that you were ‘nice’ to me and joked around with me and hung out with me sometimes— the structure of inequality that you never cared to address is clear in my mind.
All men, INCLUDING YOU.
i'm so happy that we're in this together!
your sexuality is valid.
your attraction to males is valid
your attraction to women is valid
and you have every right to be upset about being stereotyped as a whore- as unfortunate as us bisexuals are labled.
you do not need to change your sexuality for ANYONE.
you have EVERY FUCKING RIGHT TO REJECT WHOEVER YOU WANT!
just because tras say that 'you're biesxual! you are attracted to both sexes that means you'll be attracted to me!' doesn't matter at all. YOU DATE WHO YOU WANT TO DATE!
you absolutely deserve the company of people that respect you for being bisexual. that don't try to force you into the gay or straight role
and you absolutely deserve to be around people that love you for who you are and won't try to change you because of that <3
i love you <3
from one bisexual radfem sister to another
we need more mean bisexual radfems.