Something that might be of interest to everyone...

[12voltman59]

I don't necessarily agree with all that is said here--just that I found it to be an interesting article and thought I would share: http://www.alternet.org/books/biphobia-and-monosexism-bisexual-oppression?page=0%2C0

[Cherokee_Mountaincat]

And just who made You an expert on Anything? Its "Click" time, Voltie. This is another Hydra head..lol
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[sailorashore]

Where did this dickhead pop in from. Ph.D. my rosy red rear--I'd give odds he's no more than 14 years old. Just his choice of words and phrasing gives him away. Go amuse yourself on one of the game sites, kid, you obviously have nothing of value to contribute to this community.

[tenni]

Thanks Voltie for posting this.

I think that I may have read the author's website but this may be a different person.

I'm considering buying her book when it comes out in the next few weeks.

I found some of the following interesting quotes from the article.

60 percent (of writings) focused on stereotypes (of bisexuals) (or other such “people think bad things about us” varieties), whereas only 20 percent dealt with other forms of biphobia (mainly bisexual erasure). This overwhelming reference to stereotypes in the context of biphobia creates the impression that stereotypical beliefs are the near-only origin and form of biphobia, and that direct personal mistreatment is the only (or main) result thereof. “

“For example, out of five studies of biphobia cited by Ochs, only two deal mainly with heterosexual (or “general”) biphobia.”
“Considering the fact that the overwhelming majority of biphobia and monosexism originates not from gay and lesbian communities but from heterosexual structures, it seems like the bisexual movement, as a whole, is focused on the wrong aspect.”

“heterosexism to imply structural oppression working against all LGBT people. While I perfectly agree with the first part of Weiss’s criticism, the latter part unifies four types of oppression into a single mold and erases the differences between them.”

I have suspected this for quite some time. The San Francisco Human Rights Commission on Bi Invisibility supports this idea that looking at the LGBT as a single mold that bisexuality has been erased as far as LGBT organizations’ addressing the differences appropriately and equitably(since bisexuals are the largest non hetero group)