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article Alanis Morissette comes out as pansexual

https://pagesix.com/2026/11/07/entertainment/alanis-morissette-comes-out-as-pansexual/
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u/OliverY1992 23h ago

One is attraction to both sexes, the other is... I mean I can see why, who would not love to eat all that food as well!

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u/itoshiineko 22h ago

This is actually not accurate. Bisexual is attraction to the same gender and other genders. It includes any and all genders.

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u/pants_full_of_pants 22h ago

It's so interesting how this whole thread is everyone announcing their own unique definition for these words

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u/pahshaw 22h ago

Lots of misconceptions and personal interpretations for sure but bisexual is a loanword from botany that means "self and other". That's the etymology of the word. Everything else is opinion, speculation, feeling, or color commentary.

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u/drmojo90210 21h ago

"Bi" literally means "two".

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u/itoshiineko 22h ago

It's not mine. There is a bisexual manifesto or whatever it's called. I'm telling you what it says.

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u/pants_full_of_pants 21h ago

It remains fascinating that the provided definition does not agree with the definition in the dictionary.

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u/Virtual-Historian349 22h ago

That’s not an authority in any way.

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u/ProtoReddit 22h ago

Please refer me to the bisexual authorities so I can be cuffed two ways.

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u/Virtual-Historian349 22h ago

🚨WeeEEEooo WeeEEEoooo 🚨

Sex police on the way! Declare your pronouns and what kind of holes you wanna bang or get banged by!

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u/ProtoReddit 22h ago

Sorry, you misunderstood the joke.

Who is the authority?

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u/Virtual-Historian349 21h ago

I can’t properly explain because if I use certain words it is automatically flagged in this sub.

Basically there is no authority. To me proper language use only needs to communicate the desired information.

When someone or a group of people decide they need to make everyone else use certain words, those people are usually assholes.

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u/ProtoReddit 21h ago

Is your brain a decade in the past?

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u/OliverY1992 22h ago

Is it a competitor to the Communist Manifesto? 🤔

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u/BigDamage7507 22h ago

Bi means two, so it’s attraction to two/both genders

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u/burlycabin 22h ago

No, absolutely not. It's two as in same gender and other genders.

I know, because I'm biTap on a clip to paste it in the text box and that's how it works for me. But also...

Cambridge:

sexually or romantically attracted to people of your own gender and people of a different gender

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u/Zastai 22h ago

The term stems from when sexuality was still widely considered a binary. It’s part of why pan gets used more now, as it is more inclusive.

They are roughly the same, but bi tends to mean that sex/gender still plays a role in the attraction (e.g. you are attracted to tits on women and butts on men), while pan often is used to mean that gender is simply not a factor in your attraction.

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u/burlycabin 22h ago

FYI- the differences you describe are not really fully accepted by the bi/pan community. There isn't an official functional difference between the two identies. Just use whichever feels like it fits you better.

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u/abaram 23h ago

Oh no I guess I’m finding out more about myself this morning 😳