Bisexuality, the Kinsey Scale, and the Myth of “Straight as Default” | #215

In this Pride Month episode of The Neurodivergent Creative, Caitlin Fisher dives into bisexuality, queer history, compulsory heterosexuality, and the social systems that taught us to treat straightness as the default.💬" Heterosexuality as norm is a social construct. Without hierarchy, it's all just neutral behavior." - Caitlin Liz FisherThey also explore the Kinsey Scale, its historical importance, its limitations, and why newer models of sexuality offer more nuance. Caitlin connects this conversation to queer erasure, religious and patriarchal control, colonialism, defunded queer research, and the ways queer history has been intentionally suppressed.At the heart of this episode is a liberating reminder: human sexuality is fluid, layered, and far more expansive than the rigid categories society often tries to enforce.What We Explore in This Episode:- Compulsory heterosexuality and how it shapes self-understanding- Bisexual erasure, queer gatekeeping, and the fear of not being “queer enough”- The Kinsey Scale as an early model of sexual orientation and where it falls short- Alternatives to the Kinsey Scale, including the Klein Grid, SASO, and MSS- Queerness in animal behavior and why “natural” is not synonymous with heterosexual- How religion, patriarchy, colonialism, and political power have shaped sexual norms- The intentional erasure of queer history and queer researchMentioned in this episode:- Episode 167: Why We Are 60 Years Behind on Queer Rights: https://youtu.be/YM24FA_s9lg- Episode 168: Pride, Bisexual Erasure, and the Harm of Queer Gatekeeping (with Bailey Merlin): https://youtu.be/f7JBJYXAC44- Alfred Kinsey and the Kinsey Scale - https://bi.org/en/famous/alfred-kinsey/- The Klein Sexuality Grid - https://bi.org/en/bi-101s/kinsey-klein/- The Sell Assessment of Sexual Orientation - http://www.lgbtdata.com/uploads/1/0/8/8/10884149/ms003_sell_details.pdf- The Multidimensional Scale of Sexuality - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2230111/- Queerness and bisexual/homosexual behavior in animals - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexual_behavior_in_animals- History of Human Sexuality - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_human_sexuality#Religion_and_sex