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[+] 40 points 3 years ago (14 children)
  • [–] 62 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    If only they addressed that in the article...

    “I am pansexual,” he says, meaning that he is attracted to persons regardless of their sex or gender.
    Brady puts it another way: “Bisexual — with an open mind!” he says with a chuckle.

    Oh wait they did. Read the article.

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  • [–] 38 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 child)

    It really gets under my skin when folks frame bisexuality as bigoted pansexuality.

    Edit: I'm not saying he wasn't making a lighthearted joke and I'm not even really saying he shouldn't have said it. I'm just sad that for a lot of people this may be the first time they hear about pansexuality and assume it means that people who say they're bi are transphobic, enbyphobic, or something else.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 years ago (10 children)

    Yeah tons of people use the label “bisexual” even though by strict definition they might actually be pan. And that’s totally fine, you don’t always have to use the most specific terminology.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    I'm not a pansexual because I refuse to fuck people with green skin, regardless of gender status.

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  • [–] 23 points 3 years ago (29 children)

    What is a close-minded bisexual?

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    Only eats at a restaurant that has at least one Michelin Star, wears only black socks, listens only to music that was popular when they were between the ages of 12-18 years old, insists that video games and cartoons peaked when they were age 22.

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  • [–] 38 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    The definition I originally came across is a pansexual person is not attracted by gender but by the personality. So no rules or restrictions on sex organs or gender identity or presentation. It's really attraction to the person underneath above all else.

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  • [–] 24 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    don't mean to be ignorant but how is that not just a word for non-superficial bisexual?

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  • [–] 31 points 3 years ago* (4 children)

    The "bi" part of bisexual implies a gender binary. Some people like that, some people don't. Pansexual is just an alternative that is explicit in its attraction to non-binary people. Some people aren't attracted to non-binary people, and use bisexual as a label to specifically mean only an attraction to men and women. Other people who might be described as pansexual describe themselves as bisexual simply because it is a more well known word. It all varies.

    "Non superficial bisexual" isn't the worst definition of pansexual, but saying pansexual is shorter.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    I’ve always felt that bi = people of my sex or people of the other sex. Nothing about the word “bisexual” implies any gender to me, it just means I’m not explicitly gay or straight!

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  • [–] 15 points 3 years ago

    The way I (a bisexual) have always interpreted the difference is that pansexuals feel the same attraction to all genders and that bisexuals feel different attraction to different genders. I identify as bi because I definitely feel different kinds of attractions towards men, women and enby's.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago

    From what I can tell bisexual can mean a couple of things depending on who you ask. Either an attraction to two genders eg. cis men and women, or perhaps an attraction to multiple but not all genders. Pansexual on the other hand means an attraction to all, including trans or nonbinary people, etc.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 years ago

    I’m pansexual.
    In doing my research, both with myself and just with the world, I couldn't say if I was bisexual, because I had to really see what that was, especially because I really have not gotten a chance to act on anything. So, I came to pansexual because — and I know that I'm completely messing up the dictionary meaning — but to me, pan means being able to be attracted to anyone who identifies as gay, straight, bi, transsexual or non-binary. Being able to be attracted across the board. And, I think, at least for me for right now, that is the proper place. I took pan to mean that not only can I be attracted to any of these people or types physically, but I could be attracted to the person that is there.

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