Open question to bisexuals that post / comment here… why?
I’m using a throwaway because you can find the posts / comments from bisexuals on my main account and I don’t want to create a path for brigading or hating.
The point of this post is to not attack but I am genuinely curious
As someone who lurks in r/therapists they have an explicit rule, all are welcome to lurk, but posts/comments must be by therapists only
I have noticed lately a LOT of bisexuals commenting or posting here and I want to ask the bisexuals in the room why? I have never had any desire to contribute to r/bisexuals because I figure that’s your space.
Why not engage in sapphic or queer or more general subreddits, I guess I wanna know why are you in a lesbian subreddit and sharing your experiences
Usually it’s pretty harmless but lately I’ve been seeing some “whataboutism/well actually/ as a bisexual” type of comments in response to lesbians sharing their experiences and that has definitely rubbed me the wrong way a little. For example I saw a lesbian make a post about how their dating profile is explicit about looking for a serious monogamous relationship and they get likes/messages from bisexual women with their boyfriends looking for threesomes. I saw several bisexuals commenting “not all bisexuals are doing it as a fetish foe their boyfriend” which, well yeah, but that’s not what the post is about. A monogamous lesbian ISO a relationship doesn’t want a partnered bisexual woman. It detracts from the conversation and centers bisexual experiences in a lesbian subreddit.
Also sometimes bisexuals will comment here without explicitly bringing up their sexuality and then I’ll go to ther profile and they have tons of posts / comments in bisexual subreddit. So I’m wondering for those of you double dipping lol why? What are you getting from contributing here that you can’t find in bisexual or more general queer or sapphic subreddits? Why lesbianactually when you’re not a lesbian?
So, genuinely asking and safe space here, if you’re a bisexual who has posted / commented - what are you doing here? lol. I feel like lesbians have so few spaces that are just for us, whether it’s online or IRL. So I get frustrated seeing that sometimes bc it feels like we can’t have anything that’s protected and just sacred for us. But rather than be sassy to an individual commenter I figured I’d create an open space to discuss.
Also to any lesbians reading - don’t bring biphobia to this. I am seeking to understand. My question to yall though would be, would you want a rule in this subreddit that only lesbians can post/comment. I wonder if automod can delete posts/comments from people who have also posted in r/bisexuals.
Posted Mar 8, 2026, 1:25 PM UTC · locked