Timeline for Words with "bi-" prefix that no longer mean "two"
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| Jul 25, 2022 at 7:27 | comment | added | Nathan Hinchey | @JonHanna it is actually my distaste for that attempt to make the bi in bisexual mean 2 that led me to ask this question! | |
| Jul 2, 2018 at 15:04 | comment | added | Jon Hanna | (In etymology, sense b originates with the sense a you omitted and in the days of the theories of both trans and homosexual people as "inverts" described bisexual people as internally hermaphroditic. That's as discredited as the rest of the "invert" nonsense, but does have the legacy of leaving us with a word that biphobic people assume must mean bisexuals can't be attracted to non-binary people). | |
| Jul 2, 2018 at 15:02 | comment | added | Jon Hanna | I would say far from gradually as an endonym, where this is very much accepted, though some within the bisexual community prefer "both genders like one's own and genders unlike one's own" which is a binary definition but in covering two groups of genders rather than two genders is applying a binary grouping rather than pretending gender is binary. | |
| Jun 24, 2018 at 14:59 | history | answered | Jakub Konieczny | CC BY-SA 4.0 |