What bisexuality is.

For some reason completely beyond me, the thing about bisexuality is that people just don't get it. You tell them you're bi and they ask extraordinarily stupid questions or say extraordinarily stupid things. Being bisexual means you can be attracted to both men and women. Simple as that. If you don't get that you must have an IQ of about minus ten.

It doesn't mean you're confused, or that it's an easier way of coming out as gay, or a way of trying to be cool, or that you sleep around. And by the way, people who say they're bi for attention or to be 'trendy' are complete and utter idiots.

Telling someone 'I'm bi' is usually guarenteed to be followed by a conversation somewhere along these lines.

What, really? No, I just go around saying it for a joke. Duh. Yes, really.

Are you sure? Would I go around telling people if I wasn't? Yes, I'm 100% sure.

But how do you know? I just do, the same way straight people know they're straight and gay people know they're gay. Funnily enough, being attracted to other women as well as men is a big give away.

Since when? I don't know, you're supposed to say since always aren't you? Well probably that's it, but I only really realised when I was eighteen. I'd had crushes on both for a while, but never really thought much about my crushes on girls. I suppose I assumed it was just a phase and now I know it isn't.

Do you prefer girls or guys? Neither, I like them pretty much the same, but people who say 'bisexuals love everyone' drive me mad. This is what I heard someone else call the 'hugs, hugs, hugs' view of bisexuality, and it's so sickly and sweet it makes you want to be sick.

Have you ever been out with a girl? No, but I'd really like to.

Are you out to your parents? This is the question every single gay or bisexual person gets asked. No one ever asks a straight person if their parents know they're straight, but they're always wanting to know if you parents know if you're bi or gay or whatever. And yes. they're perfectly fine with it. As for anyone else, I don't go around announcing it to everyone I meet, just like people don't go round announcing they're straight, but I don't mind people knowing it and it doesn't bother me to talk about liking girls around other people.