I remember numerous months ago when a study came out showing that of the people now identifying as LGBT+, most of them were bisexual. Somebody commented something along the lines of “this kinda proves my theory that everyone is bisexual.” I’ve seen this sentiment before then, though.
I have mixed feelings: most of the people proposing this are themselves bisexual and usually saying it in good faith. I have little doubt that there are more bisexuals than we think, too; they hesitate to identify as such due to factors like stigmatization and unawareness.
Even so, this suggestion still rubs me the wrong way: it invalidates our own identities and implies that we “just haven’t found the right man yet”, like we only need to subject ourselves to dozens of guys (either in person or from photographs) and eventually we’ll win the lottery. There are plenty of other things that I would rather be doing. I suppose that somebody could argue that I must be bisexual because umpteen years ago I found a few guys attractive, but that categorization would be so misleading as to be useless.
What do you think?
Attraction greatly depends on the other person's presentation. Also, heterosexual, homosexual, and bisexual are terms that exclude non-binary people and the fact that both experienced gender and gender presentation are typically spectrums, not extreme binaries.
So it depends on your definition of bisexual and what aspects you're looking at. What I think people often mean is that almost everyone finds some aspects of both stereotypical femininity and masculinity attractive. Primarily that's because most of that stuff is learned, not instinctual, otherwise how can you explain changes in those stereotypes across generations. But also because the way people choose to express gender is dynamic and varied. Labels are fine for personal identification and communication, but not for imposing restrictions on others.