Bi+ Bridgerton, Pedro Pascal, and the Partner Problem

Bailey talks about the exhausting cultural urge to sort everyone into straight or gay.

Look, there’s a lot of bad going on in the world right now. So much. So much that I don’t even know where to focus. Me getting caught up in biphobic “discourse” isn’t on a high list of priorities. But, damn it, if I don’t talk about this shit right now, I’m going to lose it.

Writing about biphobia from a place of knowledge is, like, the one thing I have. Threads just told me what a “bisexual lesbian” is (not getting into it here). Let me have this. Let me talk about the newest season of Bridgerton, Pedro Pascasl, and how fucking tired I am of bi-erasure happening when someone starts dating. Please.

So, by now, those of us who are going to watch season 4 of Bridgerton are done and those of us who never gave a shit weren’t going to watch it in the first place. But, here is the obligatory “spoiler” tag. Consider yourself warned.

It’s 2026, let’s talk about why we’re still pretending that a partner’s assumed gender is a sexual orientation determinant.