Pararaptor said:
Or, y'know, people were always this way & now it's just more acceptable to come out with it. Sure there are people who say it just to be fashionable, but I believe they're thoroughly in the minority.
No. When I was at college there was a place in campus where loads of people would gather. Imagine the opposite of high school cliques, it was like that. Loads of really random people all sharing space, getting on well and making friends.
But anyway, there was one person in particular who was really bad for this. There were loads more people like him, but he was the most irritating. In the first year, he apparently kissed some guy. I'm not sure that even happened since one day he said he kissed him and the next he said he slept with him, it was a changing story. He very much beat the drum about being bisexual, when in fact noone had ever seen him with a guy and everyone had seen him trying to get with just about every girl. I should at this point say I'm the opposite of that. I don't tell anyone about my sexuality since it's none of their business. I told my close friends at the time who politely told everyone I knew. That was great. I'm not ashamed of it, and if it came up I'd mention it, but 99% of the time it isn't relevant.
The long and short of it is that I called him out about something else. He was upsetting the girls including the one I was close with at the time. So I told him to basically keep his hands to himself and he accused me of being homophobic. It's like there's a complete change of menality between the genuine bisexuals and the ones who say it to be different and you can spot it from a mile away. I've had friends come to me before when they've been unsure of themselves and you can tell from seeing them in that state to seeing one of the other kind demanding attention.
That's what annoys me about it really, when people use it to get attention when people like me have been trying to lose attention for it.