A few decades ago, it was super-common to hear some variation of “bisexuals are just gay people in denial.” And before that, it was “gay men are just pedophiles in denial.” Everything that isn’t cishet gets ridiculed as “not real” when it first enters the public discourse.
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A few decades ago, it was super-common to hear some variation of “bisexuals are just gay people in denial.” And before that, it was “gay men are just pedophiles in denial.” Everything that isn’t cishet gets ridiculed as “not real” when it first enters the public discourse.