Berrisual sits in the messy middle where most people were told they weren’t “allowed” to exist. It names a pattern that has always been there: a strong pull toward women, feminine-aligned, and androgynous people, with rare or unpredictable attraction to men or masculine-aligned genders. For those who never felt fully lesbian, fully straight, or comfortably bisexual, the word doesn’t complicate their identity — it clarifies it. Instead of squeezing themselves into labels that misfit, they finally have one that reflects how their desire actually works, not how it’s supposed to look on paper.
The backlash it sparks reveals just how uncomfortable some still are with nuance. Critics frame new terms as fragmentation, as if language is splintering community rather than revealing its depth. But berrisual isn’t about drawing lines; it’s about telling the truth. If anything, it proves that people were never simple to begin with. Now, they’re just refusing to stay silent about it.
