{"id":2078,"date":"2014-08-20T20:36:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T19:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/?guid=116fa271be4694e2eb814c7c3f717e3e"},"modified":"2015-08-05T14:37:44","modified_gmt":"2015-08-05T13:37:44","slug":"bis-are-not-more-evolved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/2014\/08\/bis-are-not-more-evolved\/","title":{"rendered":"Bis are not more evolved&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the bi stereotypes \/ cliches that gets rolled out is that <i>bisexuals are more evolved than other people<\/i>. Cos, y&#8217;know, we see personality not gender or genitals. And by &#8216;see&#8217; they mean fancy, or indeed intimately enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>Though that&#8217;s a worrying definition of bisexual so far as I&#8217;m concerned, because I&#8217;ve &#8216;seen&#8217; a lot of personalities, a lot of genders and (gasp!) even some genitals as well.&nbsp; Sometimes the gender of the person has been important to me, sometimes it has been important to them; oftentimes not.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>It is I&#8217;m sure a well-meaning thing to say. It implies a certain &#8220;I wish I were, I just don&#8217;t have it in me&#8221;, and it&#8217;s complete nonsense. We&#8217;re as evolved and as prone to cockwomblery as anyone else.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier I was reading someone (no links, doesn&#8217;t deserve the traffic) bewailing that they had tried going to bi spaces, but it was just so terribly unwelcoming because <i>they had to listen to women, too. <\/i><\/p>\n<p>More evolved? Pffft. In this case: the 1950s called, they miss you and want you back. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the bi stereotypes \/ cliches that gets rolled out is that bisexuals are more evolved than other people. Cos, y&#8217;know, we see personality not gender or genitals. And by &#8216;see&#8217; they mean fancy, or indeed intimately enjoy.Though that&#8217;s a worrying def&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bi","category-bi-bloggers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078","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=2078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078\/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=2078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}