bisexual-dragons:

I love doing the October is not the 8th month of the year analogy with biphobes who insist bi= attracted to only 2 genders.

Because they inevitably point out history. They point out how it WAS the 8th month, but then 2 months were added to the calendar which bumped it back to the 10th month of the year

Well this is the perfect example of how definitions change. And the prefix argument falls flat on its face.

October was, at one point, the 8th month. Hence the octo prefix. It was then changed. But do we change the prefix to reflect that change? No. It’s still October.

Just like bisexuality once meant encompassing two sexualities (homosexual and heterosexual). That’s where the bi in bisexuality came from. Now the definition is two or more to reflect our growing understanding on gender.

Definitions change. Things change. But we keep the name because of the history surrounding it.

Stop obsessing over prefixes.