Now Playing Tracks

bialogue-group: Straight Privilege? Really? Who here actually ARE the people with ‘privilege’? Please point out all the bisexual people in the photo exhibiting ‘typical’ examples of ‘straight privilege’. Now please point out who in the photo are people who actually HAVE ‘privilege’. Oh they happen to be a couple of wealthy and powerful gay men? Oh? So maybe that old cliche some people like to winge on and on (and on and on) about that “all bisexual people automatically have ‘straight privilege’” as if it is some sort of status crime to be bisexual, might possible be … gasp, shock… wrong? Quoting from the 2007 essay on the subject by San Francisco’s long-time bisexual/poly activist Peppermint, “Straight privilege is all those things you get just by being, acting, or appearing straight. Conversely, straight privilege is all those things you lose when you are, act, or appear as queer.” All the queer-looking people without an ounce of “straight privilege” in the photo are actually bisexual-identified LGBTQ folks EXCEPT the for two wealthy white guys in business attire. Those two are gay men, (bottom left that’s Joe Solmonese Executive Director HCR and in the middle-ish is Ryan Murphy co-creator and showrunner of Glee). See how that works?
Zoom

bialogue-group:

Straight Privilege? Really? Who here actually ARE the people with ‘privilege’?

Please point out all the bisexual people in the photo exhibiting ‘typical’ examples of ‘straight privilege’.

Now please point out who in the photo are people who actually HAVE ‘privilege’. Oh they happen to be a couple of wealthy and powerful gay men? Oh?

So maybe that old cliche some people like to winge on and on (and on and on) about that “all bisexual people automatically have ‘straight privilege’” as if it is some sort of status crime to be bisexual, might possible be … gasp, shock… wrong?

Quoting from the 2007 essay on the subject by San Francisco’s long-time bisexual/poly activist Peppermint, “Straight privilege is all those things you get just by being, acting, or appearing straight. Conversely, straight privilege is all those things you lose when you are, act, or appear as queer.” All the queer-looking people without an ounce of “straight privilege” in the photo are actually bisexual-identified LGBTQ folks EXCEPT the for two wealthy white guys in business attire. Those two are gay men, (bottom left that’s Joe Solmonese Executive Director HCR and in the middle-ish is Ryan Murphy co-creator and showrunner of Glee).

See how that works?

84 notes

via Bisexual/non-Monosexual & Queer Community
  1. greengoddesstara reblogged this from bisexual-community
  2. merinnan reblogged this from bisexual-community
  3. goodmorningpet reblogged this from bisexual-community
  4. martianmariano reblogged this from bisexual-community
  5. master-fishgoat reblogged this from bisexual-community and added:
    Yeah, more like ‘straight-passing privilege’, available to anyone who wants to live in the closet. :P:P:P
  6. loudbootyhell reblogged this from bisexual-community
  7. fake-smiles1993 reblogged this from bisexual-community
  8. upforchilling reblogged this from bisexual-community
  9. sluts-cats-whores reblogged this from bisexual-community
  10. jaison96 reblogged this from bisexual-community
  11. bisexual-community reblogged this from bialogue-group
  12. angelo-saxon reblogged this from bialogue-group
  13. bialogue-group reblogged this from bisexual-community and added:
    Just a reminder people PRIVILEGE COMES FROM THE CLOSET! being bisexual is Not a Status Crime
  14. angela-hunt reblogged this from bisexualshitthatblows
  15. nooffswitch reblogged this from bialogue-group
  16. dawningofnovelty reblogged this from bialogue-group
  17. mezzonoer reblogged this from bialogue-group
  18. vvhatserface reblogged this from boobwizard
  19. dirtynsweet reblogged this from bisexualftw
To Tumblr, Love Pixel Union