Obscurus
I've dealt with plenty of identity struggle and religious persecution. Just because I'm not queer doesn't invalidate my opinion on persecution and oppression. I've been threatened and I've most certainly been oppressed. My ultimate point is that arguing over the difference between being bisexual and pansexual is not very important in the grand scheme of things. The people that are doing the persecuting and oppressing don't give a crap if you're bisexual or pansexual. I've got all kinds of neat little labels that I identify with but outside of ******** around on the Internet they don't amount to much in the "real world".
That's what I'm trying to communicate. The real world does not care which you choose to call yourself. Expounding a million different gender identities and sexual orientations doesn't amount to anything to the people who hate you for being different. If anything it makes you even more different.
Nothing is very important in the grand scheme of things. Humans aren't very important in the grand scheme of things. Our planet is one of possibly billions in several billion systems. We are probably not the only species.
People debating over the differences of the two identities may be insignificant, seeing as how the average human being lives to around 67 years of age. In that time, their experiences matter to them. Queer people, labelled as 'deviant' have been chased down in decades past. It was those willing to fight for their right to be able to identify as gay, as trans, as lesbians, as bisexuals, pansexuals and so forth. They fought with their own lives at times. They were bruised.
Yeah, nothing matters in the long run as our species will one day be gone. But that day is not yet here, and things matter to the people living with them and having to face the issues they face. I'm sorry life's been tough on you, but you don't get to say what things are important or not to others.
These identities didn't sprout on the internet; Sure, awareness has been raised online, and there is information, and people can ask questions and understand themselves and others better, but it's not as though they were just some online phenomenon. They have real impact on the world. Certainly, the people who attack queers and anyone who doesn't fall neatly into a category do care how they identify so they can beat them into the 'correct' label.
arrow I don't know what world you live in, but the world I see is a world that does care what pronouns others use, and what names. And whether 'sex' matches 'gender'. And whether people are either gay or straight. And what type of gay they are. And how 'masculine' or 'feminine' they are...and if you aren't one of those things, you are a f*****t and sometimes the community will shun you because they want to not be so different. Because being different is bad, but we cannot help but be 'different'.
I don't even know if you're much of a supporter of the LGBT community, and I really don't care. I just see that yours is an attitude that enables queerphobes and transmisogynists and transphobes to do as they do. You're on the bandwagon of "we all bleed red" whilst not really understanding that not everyone has the same brain perceptions of the world and of their attraction and of their bodies. Because people like you stand by whilst queer kids are beaten to death so they can be in that little box. Like Leelah Alcorn and many other trans girls.
I bet if you got your way, nobody would be anything other than straight and cis.
You are part of the problem.
Even more, you're one of the reasons why the problem exists.
I feel bad for the LGBT people who might know you, because you probably would let them be killed because they're too 'different'.
