One question that’s cropped up many times in my 20-something years of bi activism and bi volunteering is this:<\/p>\n
Should bisexual and bisexuality be spelled with hyphens, as bi-sexual and bi-sexuality? <\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n I say, down with the hyphen! Two reasons:<\/span> I wrote this in a thread somewhere else but thought it was worth copying over here \ud83d\ude42<\/i> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One question that’s cropped up many times in my 20-something years of bi activism and bi volunteering is this:Should bisexual and bisexuality be spelled with hyphens, as bi-sexual and bi-sexuality? I say, down with the hyphen! Two reasons:1) We don’t …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
1) We don’t hyphenate homo-sexuality or hetero-sexuality. <\/span><\/span>
2) Generally when words get hyphenated like that it’s because they aren’t real words or are just getting accepted into English as a single word (think of old films where to indicate the passage of time they have a flipping calendar with “TO-DAY IS” on it — or how early on people tended to write email as e-mail). As bisexuality is real and definitely not something invented earlier this week, I think the hyphen sends out all the wrong signals on that front too.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n