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Allow me to speak on these points:

• "It's never okay to call someone who uses microlabels bisexual."
• "It's never okay to call a bisexual one of the microlabels."

I identify as bisexual and pansexual simultaneously. They're not mutually exclusive because they're somewhat arbitrary neologisms with blurry semantic distinctions. No bit of language is rooted in stone, let alone more modern terms used to describe a very personalized matter like sexual orientation. I always say that how personal you are to a label is the best metric to know how adequately it describes you. Do you feel "bisexual" is a relatable term? Congrats, you're bi. Do you feel "pansexual" is a relatable term? Congrats, you're pan. And me? I use the terms in a linguistic context that makes them not mutually exclusive and core parts of my sexual identity, so I do want to correct that part (even though I know you didn't make this). Otherwise, however, I think it's a good post, and just make sure at the end of the day to emphasize respect and refrain from policing identities like a turd. Anyone who does that should touch grass ASAP.

Bi has a better color scheme

I feel like this is kinda busted in a taxonomic sense. My understanding an "umbrella" in categorization is that things underneath it are unified by fulfilling specific criteria, such that you can call them the same in that sense. Gorillas and chimpanzees are different species, but they're both primates and can be referred to as such. Primates and rodents are different orders, but they're both mammals and can be referred to as such. Rectangle and square, boat and ship, all that jazz. I wonder what the utility of using that kind of hierarchy is in the case that you can't group them like that, which seems to be what the graphic is saying.

I suppose the counter argument is that it doesn't need to be consistent if it feels right? I've heard the sentiment (on here, as it happens!) that labels ought to function more as beacons than walls, to attract other people who feel generally the same way rather than exclude people on a more rigid "objective" basis. Still, I feel like any attempt to categorize like this throws that out the window by necessity.

sorry to dump all this where it probably wasn't expected but this really got my brain turning on the matter and would like to hear what other people think

You know, relationships between two bisexuals never last, because they always go bi-bi.

Likewise, airlines always make sure to never pair up a pansexual captain and first officer, lest the flight involve a pan-pan situation.

theyre all the same

actually the difference is that bisexuals favor a STR based build, whereas pansexuals usually focus more on DEX.

I call myself bisexual because I like the colour scheme the best

Huh TIL I'm omnisexual. Thanks for sharing this!

Found this infographic in the comments of a post discussing the age-old Bi or Pan debate.

It’s a bit old now but I thought it’s good.

Is there a specific word to describe someone who is bi or pansexual, but leans towards a certain fuzzy range of gender expression? To give an example, being attracted to girls and feminine men, but not traditionally “masculine” men.

I guess that would count as omnisexual, but I’m not entirely sure.

All good intentions, but I don't think it's so straight forward to categorise a spectrum with a wide variety of understandings so rigidly as this.

But I very much like "Let's not label each others' sexuality" and "Let's accept all multisexual labels and support each other".

I'm pan. But I'm never going to explain that term to anyone as long as there remains the more popular understanding of the term bi (especially my parents).

So I'm bi for convenience.

The obsession with categorizing things that don't neatly fit into boxes confuses me.

Like I'm all for it if it helps some people feel understood, but imma just call myself bisexual and not sweat having exactly one word to describe what makes me horny.

What if I'm just horny UwU slut?

This doesn't make a lot of sense to me, tbh.

I am all for recognizing that languages change all the time, etc. But also, isn't the point of laying out categorical schemes like this to provide clarity? And I think clarity calls for us to, when possible, consider etymology, history of usage, etc. because that allows people to more readily understand terminology when they just encounter it in use, rather than getting it from some kinda chart like this.

So, I think it's weird to call bi an umbrella term if the term and the terms supposedly falling under the umbrella are exclusionary. Example: "communist" is an umbrella term. You can call both Marxists and Ancoms communists, because they both fall under the umbrella. I agree that you shouldn't call a pan person bi, but that means pan doesn't fall under any kind of bi umbrella.

Also, pan and omni are synonymous; pan being Greek and omni Latin. I've never heard of this distinction of pan having no gender preference and omni having one - feels made up by this person. BTW, I identify as pan, and have a preference (though I personally wouldn't say it's a gender preference. I know several agender people and I am attracted to some, and not to others, though none of them have a gender, so I don't think gender is really what my preferences are about. And I could go on about this, but that's a whole nother post).

I am intrinsically drawn to the pansexual colors

Guess I'm omnisexual then

The bi colours are amazing, everyone knows bi lighting is op.

Everyone in the know loves the pan flag too.

I have never seen the omnisexual flag... but I love it!!

Honestly, instead of saying I'm bi I might say I'm omni just cause I wanna use the flag

polysexual not to be confused with polyamorous.

also not sure how much meaning is carried by "some but not all genders" is in my cultural context?

this kinda confuses me as a bi man, because i've always called myself bi but at the same time i don't think id be uncomfortable with any of these labels, and i feel as if omni sexuality fits me the best? but i also think if i told someone that they'd stare at me weird. i'm not too sure about this all

Poly-, pan-, omni-, bi, gee, we're going to learn a lot of greek through this way...

Why does it seem the Greek language's more romantic than the Romance languages, in this regard?

In gay soviet russia the prefix bi mean any and all genders and not two. Why? Fuck you!