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Most straight women don’t want to date bi guys, but most straight men are open to bi women (www.lgbtqnation.com)
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Two-thirds of straight women and one-third of straight men are unwilling to date a bisexual person of the opposite sex, according to a YouGov poll published today, during Bisexuality Visibility Week. The poll illustrates how lingering stereotypes negatively affect people’s impressions of bisexual individuals.

The poll — which surveyed 5,983 Britons during late March, including 2,031 straight women and 1,517 straight men — found that 48% of all respondents had positive views of bisexual people and only 8% had negative views. The remaining percentage had neither a positive nor a negative view of bisexuals.

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When the survey asked straight women and men why they were unwilling to date a bisexual person of the opposite sex, most (16% and 19%, respectively) said they “just don’t” or claimed, “It’s just a preference.”

A nearly similar portion, 17% of straight women and 16% of straight men, said they felt like bi people are more inclined to cheat, or that they themselves would feel insecure that they’d be unable to provide a bi partner whatever they get from a same-sex partner.

Interestingly, 9% of straight women said they feel disgust or discomfort towards men with same-sex experiences, 8% worried about possible sexual health risks, and 10% of straight men said they considered bisexuality to be either religiously or morally “wrong.” Approximately 12-13% of all straight respondents said they just wanted their dating partner to be heterosexual.

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[–] 2 points 3 days ago (1 child)

1.) "for women [who are bi, perceived by whomever]". It's quite tricky to talk about this correctly, because we are talking about gender differences relating both to perceivers and the perceived. I didn't phrase that clearly.

2.) what you you mean with "shaped in a way that didn't record women's negative attitudes"? I don't quite get that. That the items are phrased in a way that women just have a harder time agreeing, no matter what it is about?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

    From the current study the topic is about, we can see that there is a subset of LGBT people that women have more often negative view than men.

    This stand in contrast with previous studies you shared.

    That means either this new finding augments the older notion about attitudes split across genders (men have on average more negative attitude toward LGBT+ people, but something changed and now for Bi it's women who are negativity forerunners), or how the old study was performed was inadequate to capture women negative attitude towards bi people since then, e.g. the study didn't check unwillingness to date bi people.

    (Then being 2000 and 2008)

    Edit: actually, now that I've read the 2000 and 2008 study - performed on undergrads I call both of those studies worthless. WEIRD bias is a thing.

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