on bisexuals and “straight-passing” privilege:

passing, in general, is a concept stolen from discussions that concern racial issues, and it’s a concept that only works in racial issues.

a white-passing person is privileged for being white-passing *even* if it was known that they are not white. their ‘closeness’ to whiteness alone brings them privilege.

meanwhile, bi people lose any kind of privilege they have for being perceived as straight (aka erased) the moment we are outed as bisexual, regardless of how well we “pass.”

+ being erased and seen as cishet is NOT a privilege for those who want to be seen and to be visible. it’s erasure.

(when celebrities are seen as straight, they aren’t given more privilege than they’d already have for being rich white and gay, they’d just be erased. and young bi kids would be deprived of another bi well-known person to look up to.)

besides, the implication that all bi people are capable of being perceived as cishet erases the fact that many of us are trans and/or gender nonconforming, and that more often than not, our sexuality is erased and reduced to gayness/lesbianism too.