Matt Walsh Explores The Bisexual vs Pansexual War
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Summary
Pansexuality is a sought-after identity these days. Celebrities are coming out as pansexual all of the sudden. So that raises a question: what the hell is a pansexual? Well, as far as I understand it, is it the same as a bisexual?
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So as you know, LGBT people are very oppressed, so incredibly oppressed and persecuted in this
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country. But at the same time, the LGBT acronym keeps expanding because people are so desperate
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to invent some new LGBT identities so that they can be a part of the club, so that they can be
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involved as well, or to bolster their resume within the club, they'll make up new identities
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to be a part of it. See, I've never heard of an oppressed group that functions exactly like
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that. Can you think of any historical example of a group that's persecuted, and meanwhile,
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people who aren't in the persecuted group are actually pretending to be in it just to get
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themselves a dose of that sweet persecution? Help, help, I'm being repressed! I can't think of
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any example of that historically. I don't think, so this is unprecedented. And the other possible
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explanation is that LGBT people aren't persecuted at all, so I'll let you determine.
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Anyway, as part of this expansion, we now have something called pansexuality. And pansexuality
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is a really sought-after identity these days. It's one of the newest things. Hot off the presses.
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People are really into it. Celebrities are coming out as pansexual. Left and right, everyone is
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pansexual all of a sudden. So that raises a question, which is, what the hell is
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Well, a pansexual, as far as I understand it, is someone who's attracted to either sex.
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But isn't that the same as a bisexual? Well, you might think so, but apparently not. We're
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told these are two different things. How are they different? What's the distinction? Well,
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to answer that question, I think we have to go back to consult the wise sages of TikTok,
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who are experts on many things, but especially on all sexual matters. And we've got a few
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videos here kind of explaining what pansexuality is and how it's different from bisexuality. And I
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thought this was just a good, it's a good learning opportunity for all of us. So let's start
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watching the videos. Bi versus pan in 30 seconds or less. Bisexuality is the ability to feel
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emotionally, physically, or even sexually attracted to more than one gender. This can be two, four,
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six, eight, or even all of them. This can be with or without a preference. Pansexuality is the ability
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to feel attraction regardless of someone's gender or sex or gender expression. Also explained as the
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ability to feel attraction to all genders without a preference. Look, I made you a chart.
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What? Okay. So they're literally just the same thing. Am I having a seizure or something? Or
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didn't she just repeat herself? It's exactly the same thing. Sorry, wait, no, no, no, no. Bi is the
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ability to be attracted to anyone of any gender. And pan is the ability to be attracted to anyone
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regardless of gender. I think that's the distinction she made. You see it? You see the distinction?
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Me neither. I don't see it either. Um, because there isn't one, you know, it's just two words
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for the same thing. And there's a lot of that in the LGBTQ X, Y, Z acronym. A lot of the same thing
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repeating over and over again. Same for the 192 genders. It's just sort of like the same thing over
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and over again, because in reality, there are only two, but, um, I don't know. Maybe she just did a
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bad job of explaining it. So let's, uh, let's, let's watch another one. Pansexuals and bisexuals are the same
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thing. You just got to get over these years of, you know, I got to get over my years of
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internalized biphobia. I was bi for literally three years until I realized that I'm pan. If
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you don't know, this video is directed at me. So hey, bae, thanks for the even more clout
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than I already have. Also the likes to comment ratio already. Amazing. Let me explain bisexuality
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and pansexuality to you because you obviously need a lesson. Bisexuality versus pansexuality
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for w's. Here we go. Bisexuality. Oh, I think that girl's attractive. Oh, I think that guy's
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attractive. Oh, I think that non-binary person's attractive. Pansexuality. Oh, I think that person's
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attractive. Oh, is there a girl? Okay. Oh, I think that person's attractive. Oh, they're non-binary?
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Okay. Oh, I think that person's attractive. Oh, is there a guy? Okay. Do you get it? Bisexuality,
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attraction to more than one gender. Pansexuality, attraction to anyone, regardless of gender.
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It's mainly feelings-based and personality-based. Thanks for the panphobia. Thank you.
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first of all what is it on tiktok with the uh with the cackling they're always doing
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these girls on tiktok i don't make any assumptions but these girls on tiktok they're always uh
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cackling i'm not sure what that is exactly and why do they always edit the video so that it
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cuts out the last word they said before the end but anyway pan phobia she says yes we have pan
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phobia now there are people out there who have a phobia of pansexuals apparently i mean sure i run
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into this thing all the time i haven't we all seen people running through the streets oh no the
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pansexuals are coming it's a pansexual it's like i thought i haven't run into that at all because um
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nobody can have a phobia of pansexuals because that's a made-up thing it's like being afraid
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of a pansexual is like being afraid of peter pan it's it's an imaginary thing let's keep going
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here maybe we could find a video that makes sense of all of this and um i'm already just looking at
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the image here and i feel like this is a person who can illuminate and enlighten us all let's watch
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guess what my patience has run out pansexuality is not inherently biphobic they are both valid
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sexualities both of them and while yes i have seen pansexual people use that label for questionable
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reasons they pretty quickly get it once you explain things to them they do and not only that
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but do you know who likes to use specific or micro labels neurodivergent people sometimes we just have
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to do whatever we can to feel safe and comfortable and using a more specific label can be our outlet for
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that if you took all that energy you spend calling people biphobic and saying they're performing bi erasure
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and just educated them there would be less biphobia there would be less bi erasure because you've
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explained it and people will know the difference i've had it with you guys jesus that was a uh safety
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pin in his hers that individual's face right that was a safety pin that's what i thought anyway uh
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pansexuality is not inherently biphobic did you hear that pansexuality is not inherently biphobic
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and this settles the age-old debate i think it was uh it was a fact uh aristotle who was the first
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to postulate that pansexuality is not inherently biphobic so i'm glad that we've established that
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he also says that we need to or rather uh the the individual so i honestly really have no idea but
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this person says that we need to fight bi erasers i'm not sure what a bi eraser is it might be the kind
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that erases both pencil and pen i'm not sure somehow i'm just feeling more confused the more
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that we watch let's try one more to see if uh maybe this will finally make everything make sense for us
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what's the difference between omnisexual and pansexual
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omnisexual people like all genders while pansexual people like people based on their personality
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so yes they both like all genders but gender is more relevant to omnisexual people than pansexual
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people most of the time pansexual people are blind to gender while most of the time omnisexual people
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are not blind to it comment any genders or sexualities you want me to explain and compare
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life for per five so now we got now we have omnisexual too so we got bisexual pansexual
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omnisexual all to describe people who are attracted to either gender or regardless of gender or
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inclusive of gender or in spite of gender or whatever this cannot possibly get more redundant
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or arbitrary or absurd i'm demisexual i only feel sexual attraction when i form an emotional connection
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if there's no strong bond it's not an option get to know me i'm demisexual
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yeah you're a woman in other words so you you want to have a strong bond with someone
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in order to be attracted to them so it's just like every woman that has ever existed
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you just call yourself that that's fine too um so okay you know i said i'm more confused the more
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that we watch these but i'm actually not i mean it's i'm being facetious i know exactly what's going
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on here it's not confusing at all people have defined their identity and meaning and purpose and
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entire personality and their existence by these sexual labels and this is what happens when you
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do that i mean the ironic thing is that you know they're trying to escape labels escape what they
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call a rigid binary and they can't escape it because the binary is natural it's it's biological
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but what they found in their in their their flight from labels is a whole bunch of additional labels
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so now they're more labeled than they've ever been and they're arguing with each other over the
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finest little distinctions um and i guess they take comfort in that because it is easier to adopt
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a label than it is to develop a personality and find actual meaning in your life also as we've seen
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in some of these videos having a label like this gives you an excuse to dress like a character from
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tim burton movie there's white things in the car and that in the end i think is the real point