you will never beat the biphobia allegations until you radically accept bisexuals who are stereotypical. you must accept the sluts, the polyamorous, the girls with straight boyfriends, the questioning, the confused, the ones who want to be another couple's unicorn, the ones who are in a phase and will eventually identify differently, and even the ones you suspect aren't truly bisexual but just want attention. take people at their word when they tell you who they are. let them live and express their identity as they see fit. happy bi visibility day

Also how many types of people do the stereotypes cover. I mean. By the time you list all the top ten most Insufferable Bisexuals you’ve listed a whole village of perfectly normal people

if you are more annoyed by bi people talking about bi erasure than…….bi people’s contributions and existence being erased from lgbtq history and media, i’ve got news for you and that news is you’re biphobic

me, headcanoning all my faves as bisexual: it’s what they deserve

Anytime someone who isn’t bisexual thinks they can have an opinion on “good bi rep” and speak over the actual bi community they personally owe me $20.

I’m open to being proven wrong on this, but I’m not currently convinced that there’s some of epidemic of canonically bi characters who are only seen in m/f relationships.

I’ve seen a chart some time ago showing that about 9 in 10 bi female characters on tv end up in endgame f/f relationships. The only reason it appears to have an epidemic of bi characters in m/f relationships is because people insist that bi characters who end up with, or mostly date, their own gender are actually gay so they don’t count 🤷‍♀️

you know what’s fucking sad is how absolutely thrilled i am when i see someone actually refer to a canonically bi character as bisexual because i’m so damn used to everyone on this site calling every bi character gay/lesbian that it’s a rarity to actually see the word bisexual used to describe them

Hey you know what's super funny about the idea of "good bi rep"?

For a character to be canonically bi you have to make sure and establish that they're attracted to multiple genders. Not all mediums allow you to get inside every character's head or show what they're thinking. Flirting can be read ambiguously, and god forbid they flirt with a character who's not into them and be read as pushy or predatory. So it can be super handy to just mention an ex or two! But you better not mention too many exes because that would make them a slutty bisexual which is (checks notes) bad, and you definitely better be careful about making them poly, because that might make them, uh... greedy. Oh, and those exes? They better be perfectly amiable breakups with no conflict or drama, because it's bad to represent queer people in toxic or abusive relationships (especially queer women! very bad), and you definitely can't have them have lost a partner if the partner was queer because that's "bury your gays..." You should probably also eliminate all trauma from their backstory, just to be safe. You should probably also make sure they're not involved in crime, deception, or anything of the sort, because that would make them "deviant" and a stereotype.

But don't worry! Once you've carefully crafted your nice, monogamous, experienced-but-not-too-experienced Lawful Good bi character, you will be rewarded with your audience deeming them "boring" and quickly passing them over for other characters. :)

you know what’s fucking sad is how absolutely thrilled i am when i see someone actually refer to a canonically bi character as bisexual because i’m so damn used to everyone on this site calling every bi character gay/lesbian that it’s a rarity to actually see the word bisexual used to describe them

bi women in relationships with men are still positive bi rep because they still feature a bi character and are accurate to the bi experience and that’s that.

thanks for coming to my ted talk.

“So you think that a woman being with a man is good bi representation?”

Translation: I’ve apparently forgotten what bisexuality means.

Fact: You cannot be “bad representation” as a bisexual because of how your orientation or gender manifests. We are an incredibly diverse community, so the more variety of people who represent us, the more accurate that is!

Good bi representation is not and never will be about characters being “gay enough” for gay people and lesbians to pretend that they’re not bi. Good bi representation is about having a diverse range of bi characters.

What is biphobia?

While homophobia is the hatred against gay and lesbian people which presents itself in many different (often institutionalised) ways, biphobia is the hatred against bisexual people. Though there is some overlap with homophobia, biphobia has a lot of unique and bi-specific aspects. It can come from straight people, gay people and bi people themselves (we call that “internalised biphobia”).

What all of this is showing us is that bi people have specific needs and face unique problems that won’t vanish just by fighting homophobia. There is no trickle down effect for bi people because as said above: we are not half gay so many resources for gay people don’t apply to us. We need our own resources and representation because biphobia is not the same as homophobia.

[CLAMP INTERVIEW]

“Ohkawa: (…) I am glad that the readers are happy that Sakura and Syaoran got together, but that anyone would think it’s because they make a normal couple… it’s a little disconcerting. Sakura didn’t chose Syaoran because he’s a boy close to her in age. If Syaoran had been a girl, if they had been far apart in age, as long as he was still Syaoran, I think Sakura would have fallen in love with him. It’d sadden me if you thought they’re a good couple because they’re normal.”

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This is just one of the many great quotes said by Ohkawa in this interview!

We’re two weeks away from the second chapter of “Clear Card arc”, and while we wait for it, how about looking back at this interview, taken from around the time the original series had just ended?

More CLAMP interviews to come!

If you missed the previous ones, read them all here: https://chibiyuuto.com/clamp-interviews/