{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Friendly reminder that some of why I call myself \"bisexual\" and not \"pansexual\" is that's just the 90s terminology I grew up...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/713130427966210048/", "html": "<p>Friendly reminder that some of why I call myself &ldquo;bisexual&rdquo; and not &ldquo;pansexual&rdquo; is that&rsquo;s just the 90s terminology I grew up with, but part of it is I understand &ldquo;pan&rdquo; as being like the &ldquo;I understand trans women as completely equivalent to cis women&rdquo; and that&rsquo;s not at <i>all</i> where I&rsquo;m at</p><p>Back when I was just a straight man trans girls just did not register as <i>eligible</i> to me. I was prepared to aver that I &ldquo;had a cis fetish&rdquo;, also <i>trans men</i> didn&rsquo;t do anything for me either, even making the &ldquo;misgender me with your dick&rdquo; pitch</p><p>(From remembering Craigslist Casual Encounters, I actually took &ldquo;pretend I&rsquo;m a girl and give me your load&rdquo; as a pretty authentic gay male thing)</p><p>But then Covid got into my brain; that personality was destroyed and the new one&rsquo;s bi. And suddenly, trans men and women are registering as <i>eligible</i>.</p><p>So from this I can only conclude that whatever sexual <a href=\"https://href.li/?https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identification_friend_or_foe\" target=\"_blank\">IFF</a> was reading both as <i>some combination of man and woman.</i></p><p>And now, those are both eligible so all good.</p>"}