Does bisexuality reinforce a gender binary without meaning to? And what does Gen Z have to say about it? Listen on TheCutPodcast
Photo-Illustration: by The Cut; Photo: Everett Collection In this week’s episode of The Cut, to commemorate Bisexual Awareness Week, co-host Jazmín Aguilera discusses her feelings about the term “bisexual.” She and filmmaker Desiree Akhavan, creator of the comedy series The Bisexual, discuss whether bisexuality reinforces a gender binary without meaning to.
JAZMÍN: Okay, so, don’t judge me, but I actually had to look up what semiotics means. It’s the study of symbols and signs and their use and interpretation. DESIREE: Precisely, because you love the way you love. And I think it’s funny. I always feel like I’m living in the messy, gray in-between area, and I’m sure a lot of other children of immigrants feel this way. When I’m surrounded by Iranians who were raised there, I always feel like they see me as American. And when I’m around Americans, I’m like, oh, they don’t see me as American. I’m not white. Not to say that white is synonymous with American.DESIREE: Not just American.
FRANCES: If we are living in the society that you just created, I think people wouldn’t have to come out. FRANCES: I’ve heard some people say, I wish I was bisexual then I’d have way more options and stuff like that. And that is kind of like low-level homophobic. FRANCES: No, I agree with you. I agree with that. I just think in my generation, like Gen Z, or at least for me, I don’t think I need to call myself bisexual or call myself gay or call myself straight because it doesn’t actually matter.
JAZMÍN: What if we just refer to all people that aren’t straight as queer and we just lose specificity altogether –
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