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{{Short description|Aversion to bisexual people}}

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The hatred of bisexual women and [[femme]]s, being a form of prejudice at the intersection of biphobia and misogyny, is referred to as bimisogyny'''<ref>{{Cite web |last=Festival |first=Leeds LGBT+ Literature |date=2021-09-23 |title=Bimisogyny and What it Means |url=https://www.leedslgbtbooks.com/post/bimisogyny-and-what-it-means |access-date=2022-12-28 |website=mysite |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Pallotta-Chiarolli |first=Maria |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wDa6CwAAQBAJ |title=Women in Relationships with Bisexual Men: Bi Men By Women |date=2016-03-08 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-0-7391-3459-7 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last1=Flood |first1=Michael |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PWMHCgAAQBAJ |title=Engaging Men in Building Gender Equality |last2=Howson |first2=Richard |date=2015-06-18 |publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing |isbn=978-1-4438-7895-1 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=McAllum |first=Mary-Anne |date=2014-01-01 |title="Bisexuality Is Just Semantics…": Young Bisexual Women's Experiences in New Zealand Secondary Schools |url=https://doi.org/10.1080/15299716.2014.872467 |journal=Journal of Bisexuality |volume=14 |issue=1 |pages=75–93 |doi=10.1080/15299716.2014.872467 |s2cid=144498576 |issn=1529-9716}}</ref>''' or less commonly bisexism.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Weiss |first=Jillian T. |date=2004-01-15 |title=GL vs. BT: The Archaeology of Biphobia and Transphobia within the U.S. Gay and Lesbian Community |url=https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=1649428 |journal=Journal of Bisexuality|language=en |location=Rochester, NY|ssrn=1649428 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Sung |first=Mi Ra |date=2014-12-01 |title=Stress and Resilience: The Negative and Positive Aspects of Being an Asian American Lesbian or Bisexual Woman |url=https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss/3171 |journal=Doctoral Dissertations}}</ref> This is a gendered form of biphobia that accounts for [[intersectionality]] in discussions on bigotry.

 

 

The term ''biphobia'' was first<ref>{{Cite book|title=Bisexuality: Identities, Politics, and Theories|last=Monro|first=Surya|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|year=2015|isbn=9781137007308|location=Basingstoke|pages=23}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://rewire.news/article/2018/04/25/know-biphobia-harmful-know-whats-behind/|title=We Know Biphobia Is Harmful. But Do We Know What's Behind It?|last=Greenesmith|first=Heron|date=April 25, 2018|website=Rewire.News|access-date=October 22, 2019}}</ref> introduced in 1992 by researcher Kathleen Bennett to mean "prejudice against bisexuality"<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|title=Closer to Home: Bisexuality and Feminism|last=Weise|first=Elizabeth Reba|publisher=Seal Press|year=1992|isbn=1-878067-17-6|location=Seattle|pages=[https://archive.org/details/closertohomebise00weis/page/207 207]|url=https://archive.org/details/closertohomebise00weis/page/207}}</ref> and "the denigration of bisexuality as a life-choice."<ref name=":1" /> It has subsequently been defined as "any portrayal or discourse denigrating or criticizing men or women on the sole ground of their belonging to this [bisexual] socio-sexual identity, or refusing them the right to claim it."<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Welzer-Lang|first=Daniel|date=October 11, 2008|title=Speaking Out Loud About Bisexuality: Biphobia in the Gay and Lesbian Community|journal=Journal of Bisexuality|volume=8|issue=1–2|pages=82|doi=10.1080/15299710802142259|s2cid=144416441}}</ref>