As a bisexual woman — and one who, like Sinema, is white and cisgender …Aw, look at Lux grasping for the intersectionality. Don’t worry: Kyrsten will never have corpulent and unattractive on you . . .
Posted on 10/26/2021 1:36:10 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
It wasn’t that long ago that embattled Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema was hailed as a triumph of bisexual representation. After she was sworn in in January 2019, Out celebrated the first openly bisexual senator as a “rebuke to Trumpism,” positioning the “sassy lawmaker” in opposition to homophobic then-Vice President Mike Pence.
But just a few years into her tenure, public opinion has soured on Sinema. Instead of a brash, bisexual icon willing and able to stand up to the far right, she’s now seen as an unreliable centrist, a self-absorbed Democratic turncoat more fixated on getting attention and lining her own pockets than uplifting her community. No longer a bi icon, she’s now held up as a cautionary tale about the limits of representation.
As a bisexual woman — and one who, like Sinema, is white and cisgender — I now cringe every time the senator makes the headlines. Whether it’s fashion columnists dissecting her showy personal style, cartoonists mocking her as a “manic pixie dream senator” or the seemingly endless analyses of her inscrutability, Sinema seems to embody many of the nasty assumptions about bi women I’ve worked my whole life to avoid.
Will voters shy away from other bisexual candidates out of a fear that we’ll turn out to be just as fickle as Sinema? Probably not, but it wouldn’t surprise me if some potential legislators found themselves less eager to publicly identify as bisexual in the wake of Sinema’s first Senate term.
On the other hand, perhaps the opposite will be true. Maybe Sinema will inspire a new wave of openly bisexual politicians, simply out of a desperation to prove that Kyrsten Sinema is not an accurate representation of all bisexuals.
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Obviously , she’s not trying to be a media darling..........like McCain.
No motivation for taking this stupid poll and then reporting on it nation-wide, no, not at all...
When you stop being a predictable Leftist, the leftists turn on you.
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Machinery Attacks….
Always
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“ Sinema seems to embody many of the nasty assumptions about bi women I’ve worked my whole life to avoid.”
What exactly are those assumptions, Lux?
Spell them out for us.
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The Left is sure quick to eat their own if they don’t toe the Party line.
Another snarky and misogynistic “article” spewing forth from the anus known as NBC.
This one is a stinker, obviously written by a racist bi-sexualphobic doosh.
I’m sick of the fake word cisgender.
Okay, a suttle query. Pretty sure “xxx-phobic” indicates fear of “xxx” right? If one “merely” disagrees with “xxx” and isn’t in fear of “xxx”, is it still a phobia? 😨😏🙌
Now that Manchin has folded as expected, all guns have been turned on Sinewa.
No, next question.
Perhaps Lux is more comfortable with the likes of former Cali Rep. Katie Hill?
If it is really important that someone convert her back to a more traditional heterosexual woman, I’ll reluctantly take one for the team.
That’s the problem with bi-politicians, you think they are on your side and all of a sudden they are on the other.
As a bisexual woman — and one who, like Sinema, is white and cisgender …Aw, look at Lux grasping for the intersectionality. Don’t worry: Kyrsten will never have corpulent and unattractive on you . . .
Rep. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., then a Democratic candidate for the Senate, waits to greet voters at a polling place in Phoenix on Nov. 6, 2018.
Can politicains greet voters at polling places?
Turd Ferguson said it best.
"It's a way of marginalizing a normal person."
A woman who happens to be a switch hitter who thinks for herself, yeah she could be a threat to CERTAIN people.
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