This has the effect of making women convince themselves they’re bisexual when they’re not. These women will be in heterosexual relationships their entire lives and only intend to ever settle down with a man, but because they’ve been often been shown women as sexualised, it’s easy for them to do so on their own and think it’s their sexuality. A lot of these women have watched porn a bunch, where women are always the focus to the point of men being faceless, which makes them apt at objectifying women and mistaking that for desire. There’s also comparison, where women think they're bi because they notice attractive women all the time but are in fact just insecure and comparing themselves - this one is just based on a viral TikTok saying that and a bunch of replied echoing the same thoughts. The reason they think this makes them bi though is because it’s only ever been sexualised to them, no deeper romantic feelings are expected or develop.
It wouldn’t be so pervasive if it wasn’t currency. It’s another vector of oppression. White women don’t exist in a vacuum, they’re aware of the vitriol against them and participate, thinking they get a free pass because they can call themselves queer through gender bullshit or a bi LARP. It’s pitiable but not sympathetic since they stand on the necks of women who don’t hate themselves for being female.
There is a well-known meme online when where ever a woman is constantly talking about their sexuality, how gay they are, calling themselves a lesbian, posting about women… will have a boyfriend the whole time. They will call any negative reaction to this biphobia, and there’s a funny thing going on with lesbians who’ve been calling out how it impacts them to have women calling themselves lesbians with full boyfriends, because ofc there are vastly more bi women then lesbians, yet instead of recognising the minority status of this, they attack in droves against the biphobia boogeyman. Whereas lesbians will make jokes about why they won’t date bi women, and be met with the impotent rage you’d expect from a troon, except it’s more about validation than getting access to sex. It’s extremely online but goes semi-viral often, so not as small time as people might think.
Lot of overlap with fujos, who as you can imagine attract ire by posting about men all day everyday while representing themselves as attracted to women, and this isn’t just about couples because they express desire towards the actors/characters themselves. Usually they try to overcompensate - and this is again where objectification comes in, because that’s all they do. They gush too much over the rare woman publicly yet their preferences for men, always about how hot they are, and it lasts about 2 seconds before they’re back to their male centrism. They avoid media with women as a focus more than misogynists. Also cant emphasise enough that there’s a subset only identifying as bi, while again fully married to men for decades, multiple kids in, simply to avoid being called a fetishiser for being “fujos” or more millennial coded, “shippers.” It’s the same for some non-binaries/pooners, they just go a different route, or do both.
I hope I expressed this well. It’s hard to talk about if someone isn’t already somewhat familiar, as it is with troon and troon-adjacent shit. Again, it’s all very online, so some people might be unaware. It got a bit long but I’ve been meaning to organise my thoughts in this. These people are of course all trans activists and keen to troon out their kids, especially the older generation.
It all might seem very zoomer but remember the tumblr shit happened because of the millennials on there, who when anonymous behind their profiles got lumped in with the more topical zoomers. They were the ones posting all the porn after all.
