A Personal Experience With Stereotyping

     In the excerpt Stereotyping by Richard Dyer, Dyer talks about the negative impact on stereotyping gays in the media and how it affects our society. One of the negative impact that Dyer talks about is how homosexuals actually adhere to and follow the stereotypes because of the pressure put on them to do so. One of the stereotypes of bisexuals in our society is the misconception that they are just confused about which gender they are attracted to, and eventually when they mature they figure it out. One of my sisters recognizes herself as a bisexual and my other sister identifies as a lesbian. My lesbian sister "came out" before my other sister and openly gives my other sister shit for posing as somebody attracted to the same sex because she's bored as a heterosexual.  In private my sister complains to me about being bisexual mostly because people just thinks she's confused but she genuinely sometimes is attracted to the same sex and sometimes not. It is such an unfair assumption that bisexuals will eventually like either one side or the other because there is an expectation from our society that they will figure it out, and until then they are just "confused." This pressure for bisexuals to choose might make them just lie and say that they like either men or women thus creating grounds for cognitive dissidence.