Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much

by Jen Winston

As it turns out, I’m not straight. I’m not gay. The only thing I am is a threat. Because now I understand that bisexuality isn’t just an identity—it’s a lens through which to reimagine our world.

Cuffed jeans are bi culture. But that’s not all: Finger guns? Bi culture. Bob haircuts? Bi culture. Lemon bars? Bi culture. Sitting in chairs wrong? Some say it’s gay culture, but according to Reddit (and my lower back), it’s bi culture.

to be told simultaneously that you are asking for too much and that you don’t exist. The meme

(this relationship was generally boring because we were happy, which is why you’ll find little about it in this book).

Unlike Oktoberfest or Fox News, biphobia is not exclusively a straight thing—plenty of it comes from gay and lesbian communities

(e.g., we’re desperate for attention, we’re seeking straight privilege, we’re already planning to cheat on you).

Why would a community accept lemon bars as iconography unless they were desperate for symbols, representation, or acknowledgment of any kind? Arbitrary tropes like “bad at chairs” wouldn’t stick to bi people if we weren’t so eager to embrace them.

Nowhere else in America can September cloak the streets in such color (except Vermont, but few of us have the money or leftist parents to pull that off).