It started as a soft echo in tucked‑away spaces online: a name for those who can be drawn to anyone, yet feel a clear, consistent gravity toward women, femininity, or androgyny. Their attraction to men or masculinity never disappeared; it just sat further back in the room, real but quieter. “Berrisexual” gave shape to that imbalance, honoring the tilt instead of pretending everything weighed the same.

For many, the word arrived like a deep breath after years of shrugging, of saying “I’m bi, I guess” and feeling the sentence land wrong. Critics called it slicing identity too thin. But for the people it fit, berrisexual wasn’t a performance—it was a permission slip. A way to stop apologizing for patterns, to stop editing themselves mid‑sentence, and to finally say, without flinching, “My heart leans—and the leaning is part of the truth.”