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THREAD: It's the 21st International Celebrate Bisexuality Day!! Better known as Bi+ Visibility Day, but I really want to talk about the celebrating.
See, Dorothy Riddle came up with a psychometric scale that measured the degree to which a person is or is not homophobic. 1/?
See, Dorothy Riddle came up with a psychometric scale that measured the degree to which a person is or is not homophobic. 1/?
On one end you had Repulsion (bad) and on the other you had Nurturance (good). In between you had . 'homophobic levels of attitude' (Pity, Tolerance, Acceptance,) and the 'positive levels of attitude' (Support, Admiration and Appreciation)
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Riddle is credited as being the first analysis to point out that Tolerance and Acceptance weren't actually positive things, because they still were saying there was something unwanted that needed to be accepted, and that people would still have the power to accept or reject 3/??
Keeping that in mind I want to talk about internalised feelings, specifically, internalised biphobia,.
There's a Riddle-esc scale in Not Round Here, an Australian Rural Service Providers Training Manual by Kenton Penley Miller and Mahamati 4/?
http://sdcedsv.org/media/sdcedsvfactor360com/uploads/Articles/NotRoundHereManual.pdf
There's a Riddle-esc scale in Not Round Here, an Australian Rural Service Providers Training Manual by Kenton Penley Miller and Mahamati 4/?
http://sdcedsv.org/media/sdcedsvfactor360com/uploads/Articles/NotRoundHereManual.pdf
This scale looks at how we feel about ourselves, and goes from Denial (bad) to Celebration (good.) The other 3 phobic attitudes are Self-Hatred, Self-Pity, and Resignation. Next, 3 stages of Dealing With Internalised Phobia: Self-Acceptance, Self-Love, and Supportiveness. 5/??
Finally there's Trancending Phobia: Pride, and Celebration. And friends, for most of my Bi life, Acceptance was all I thought to hope for, so Resignation was as good as it got. And it's as far as a LOT of us ever get.
Awareness is good. Be aware. Take an interest 6/??
Awareness is good. Be aware. Take an interest 6/??
Cause it doesn't take much digging into bi+ history to see how we're still asking for the same things. We've had data for decades, but we have barely managed to get Tolerance from most.
So today it's not about that. It's about US. And it's about celebrating US. 7/??
So today it's not about that. It's about US. And it's about celebrating US. 7/??
I want to see bi, pan, omni, polysexual, plurisexual people dancing in the virtual streets. I want us to know that we deserve more than Tolerance and Acceptance, and I want us to demand more.
Awareness is fine, but me? I'm gonna Celebrate. And I hope you do too <3 8/8
Awareness is fine, but me? I'm gonna Celebrate. And I hope you do too <3 8/8
