Vanessa Van Patten at onteenstoday wrote an interesting blog about teens and the teen trend to be bisexual. She quotes one of her, what she calls mentees, “Even if you aren’t bi, it’s still like, really cool, you just pretend to be.” So, why is it “cool” to be bi today? Is it a Teen Trend read her post and see what teens are saying Teen Trend: 7 Reasons Why It’s Cool to Pretend to be Bisexual . She quotes teens why they think it is “in” to be “Bi”, some of them think the reasons are - it is naughty, it is sexy, it is tolerant, but the one that really caught my eye was “it is attention grabbing”.
We all know how teens seek attention and some teens will thrive on negative attention seeking or just anything for attention. The “bi” observation has come up in many parent groups. Are teens more upfront about their sexuality today than they have been in the past? Are they pretending and is it a trend? What about the Unisex look of the late ‘60’s / early ’70′s; could the ‘Bi” trend be compared to those times but in a more mainstream manner? Unisex Fashions lead to Girls dressing like boys and Boys started to wear longer hair, which is still popular today and accepted. One size fits all!
This is an interesting observation and it doesn’t seem to be going away. What are your thoughts and is this an issue in your home? If so how are you handling it? Leave your comments today.
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I am a teenager. And I’m bisexual.
Not the trendy bisexual – the sexuality. It’s embarrassing that a lot of girls in my school are claiming to be “bi” when they’re really not because I feel like people would put me in that cluster of girls when I’m not. I don’t want to be taken as a joke. I don’t care about the attention (I don’t like a lot of attention), I don’t think it’s all that “sexy” to be honest, and a few of the people I came out to hated me later on – so I wouldn’t call it “tolerant” either. Unless you mean tolerant of sexuality and gender, etc.
In my house? Nobody in my house knows of my sexuality. My parents still think I’m straight because I don’t feel like I absolutely NEED to tell them. My parents don’t care about sexuality anyway, so it wouldn’t matter if they knew or not.
This is a really interesting subject, because I have seen my son go both ways and it is very confusing. I would think if you like the opposite sex you would know it, but I find it difficult to understand how someone would be “sextually” attracted to both sex’s. I have asked him if he likes boys or girls and he tells me both. Should I believe that?