At first read, I thought the dad was confessing to cheating on OP’s mum with dudes but now my question is…then what did the dad think it was?
“Bisexual” isn’t really a new term. And for someone who has been fucking around, you think they would’ve run into the term sooner.
Dude has no time for some useless words. He’s shaggin, and everybody knows. xD
That dad fucks
Some people are really detached from the culture they live in.
Or it could be made up. Who knows?
But I can definitely attest to some older folk not knowing what ‘bisexual’ means, especially in a rural or semirural area.
I remember during the AIDS crisis health workers starteed to use the phrase “Men who have Sex with Men” in their education outreach partly because a significant number of these men did not self-identify as gay or bi.
As someone who is deep into cruising culture, very many “straight” men sleep with dudes. They’d never be in a relationship with another guy, but they don’t care who sucks their dick.
Can confirm. I had an older coworker come out to me by saying that her husband “never judged her for having girlfriends in the past”, but didn’t know the language around it. She was treated so poorly by so many people that she didn’t feel like a part of the gay community, moreso ashamed and judged. She couldn’t talk to people about it, so when would she have learned those words?
Sometimes it takes someone younger being open about it for the older generation to even realize that there are words for it now.
Which is also weird, because girlfriend can also mean a platonic female friendship.
Rather inconsistent use of language actually.
How dare they
How I Eventually Met Your Mother.
You don’t say? We used to just call that fuckin’!
What will the kids today think of next!
