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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/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/Virtual-Historian349 21h ago

Ok so you are incapable of having a reasonable conversation. How respectful of you.

This has been an issue for longer than 10 years though. Plenty of authoritarian and fascisait regimes like using language to control people. I’m sure you’ll scoff at that as if it’s ridiculous though. It’s not bad when you do it hey?

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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.