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Bisexuality tends to be dismissed as either; a stepping stone to coming out as gay, people seeking attention without intent to act on their bisexuality, or selfish people taking more than they should—as if love were a zero sum game. All of these are inaccurate and, even if they are true in specific cases, they can not speak to the broader experience of bisexuality. Bi people, like anyone else in the queer community, are not a monolith and there is no one right way to be bi. The nature of queerness in Identity also means that labels are inherently fluid and as a result sometimes a person might feel as if bisexuality is an effective word for explaining their experience, and sometimes, that might change. 
Bi-sexual people aren't a perfectly divided split experiencing attraction to all genders equally, sometimes a bi person might only be attracted to one or two people of a certain gender, that does not invalidate their experience. A helpful tool for some people in explaining their sexuality is the Kinsey scale, named after an American sexologist from the twentieth century.
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