I grew up in a very liberal and gay-friendly area (I'm possibly the only person to have a gay pride assembly in elementary school in the 2000s). A bunch of my friends as a teenager, including my first boyfriend, were out as bisexual. None of that stopped me from having massive amounts of internalized homophobia and biphobia that kept me from coming out until my late 20's, and honestly I think the internalized biphobia has gotten worse since I came out.
It's hard. I think bi-positivity and queer acceptance is a very good thing but obviously it doesn't fix everything.
Yeah it frustrates me because it feels like it ignores the structural nature of these oppressions in favor of seeing them as about personal prejudice and bad (or good) feelings
I grew up in a very liberal and gay-friendly area (I'm possibly the only person to have a gay pride assembly in elementary school in the 2000s). A bunch of my friends as a teenager, including my first boyfriend, were out as bisexual. None of that stopped me from having massive amounts of internalized homophobia and biphobia that kept me from coming out until my late 20's, and honestly I think the internalized biphobia has gotten worse since I came out.
It's hard. I think bi-positivity and queer acceptance is a very good thing but obviously it doesn't fix everything.
Yeah it frustrates me because it feels like it ignores the structural nature of these oppressions in favor of seeing them as about personal prejudice and bad (or good) feelings