Bisexual Awareness Month

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Apparently we’re celebrating this at work, which seems to consist of endless blogs about being bisexual and being “visible.” Fine, no problem with that, but why do I need to know in the workplace? Does it affect how they do their job?

I’m not being goady, I genuinely don’t see why I need to know.

Are they recruiting? ( not for jobs, for partners…)

Why a whole month?

Most causes get a day or a week. AIDS awareness day. Remembrance Day. Organ Donation week. Mental Health awareness week etc

Huh, yeah maybe…

Weird how sexuality charities request a full month.

Request an heterosexual awareness week and see what response you get. If they suggest that this may be seen as discriminatory then query the Bi week.

I agree with other posters, sexuality has no place in the workplace unless you work in a brothel.

I LOVE the idea of Cocktober! Thanks so much for the laugh

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

I can't wait for BDSM week!

Seriously though why do workplaces feel the need to try and educate employees about stuff that has nothing to do with work.

Why not spend the time teaching everybody how to do CPR or something else beneficial to society.

@Purposefullyporous it's not biphobic to say you'd never date a bi person, it's a preference! Calling them disgusting, yes biphobic, but not having a dating preference! I'd never date men from certain countries or cultures, that doesn't mean I'm phobic towards those countries or cultures!

But why? Being bisexual is as normal as being straight, or gay! Would you be fine with a Catholic celebration month? Or a Scientology celebration month?

I'm bisexual. I really do not need to have this celebrated in the workplace. It's fairly personal actually. Only my close friends and family know, and people who I get into a relationship with. I'm not ashamed of being bisexual, but equally it's nobody else's business but my own. It's great that bisexuality is accepted, but a workplace bringing attention to my own individual sexual preferences is completely grim and humiliating

‘Bringing your whole self to work’ must surely be peaking now and hopefully soon on the wane? Please say it is so!

Bisexual Awareness Month is the biggest crock of shit I’ve heard in a long time…and I’m bisexual. Biphobia? Oh stop it! FGS!

Who the fuck wants to be ‘visible’ to Graham from Finance, anyway?

You don’t, it shouldn’t, nobody should give a F*.

as far as I’m concerned they can all keep their sexual habits out of the workplace.

It’s fine if you don’t wish to participate. If you aren’t interested then chances are that this event is not for you. Not everything in life will be for or about you, and that’s okay. Things can happen around you that are important to other people and you can try to be respectful of them - that’s part of being a grown up. HTH!

I work for a large organisation and these things are usually mandatory.

This kind of comment is just nonsense. It's not like picking a football team!

You're not being unreasonable to not care because what difference does it make to anyone.

Although perhaps considering some of the comments, some of you need some more awareness. It isn't some louche lifestyle choice.

Jeez, even though the whole "awareness month" thing is a little overblown is it really necessary to compare an event themed around bisexuality to a hypothetical event celebrating zoophilia? Surely you realise how homophobic that comes across?

(And a bisexuality recruitment drive! That one reads more obviously as a joke, but on the off-chance it wasn't, the recycling of 1980s homophobia and "the gay agenda" to recruit the straights reads really badly. As I say, probably a joke, but still. Are we really so far from that history that people fail to think before they speak?)

And you’ve encountered all these things personally have you? Or you’ve just read people pushing this narrative on Twitter?

I’ve heard a couple of these things personally, but not in a hateful way, it’s just people who don’t get it, and that’s fine, they don’t have to. That’s very different from someone attacking you or harassing you because you’re bi, which just doesn’t happen.

Also, it is NOT ‘biphobic’ for someone not to want to date a bi person, respect other peoples preferences.

I never experienced any of that and I've been out as bi since 14 years old.

I agree, people making silly comments isn't phobic. I've had more silly comments about my autistic kids or flat faced dog than my sexuality. Doesn't mean people are diasabilst or puggist 🤣 It just means they have their own thoughts and opinions

It's like if bloody illegal today to say anything that wouldn't get a round of applause on twitter.

People don't have to be supportive of gay people. Why should they? I don't understand it at all, as a woman who's had one straight marriage and half a dozen lesbian relationships I think the rainbow tribe have pushed it too far.

We wanted acceptance. In the 90s/2000s we got it.

Then they pushed it too far and wanted everyone to bow down to the gays and trans and people started to push back.

Not because they're 'phobic' or hateful but because people do t like being forced into anything. They don't like being thought controlled, they don't like being told how to speak

THAT is the issue. Anybody I've ever talked to that's been labelled as 'phobic' don't ever have a problem with individual gay people, they don't like the LGBTQ++++ movement and it's agenda.

And neither do I.

And what exactly is it that you are forced to do that you don't like?

I was under the impression it was an 'awareness' month, not a 'celebration' month. Raising awareness means sharing our experiences and attempting to build mutual respect and understanding. I would 100% be interested in, and enthusiastic about, listening to anyone who wanted to raise awareness about an aspect of their life or personality that they felt people misunderstood or discriminated against them about, yes.

Bisexual people really can't win here. In the last 40 years we have gone from pariahs who are probably spreading AIDS, all the way to being exhibitionists who think we are special if we mention our sexuality, or misleading and deceptive if we don't mention it.
In terms of prejudice, being bisexual in the North East in the 80"s meant I saw a lot if it. Not to mention Thatcher telling us that nobody had the right to be gay.
This is why Bisexual Awareness month is a bad idea -it just paints a target on our backs.