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"text": "That is, establishing as it does a replacement binary (mono versus bi, rather than hetero versus homo) it functions to erase lesbian and gay specificity. In turn, this fails to consider, and even elides, important structural inequities between the hetero- and homosexual categories. The difficulty of establishing bisexual legitimacy in a discursive context of oppositional categories was acknowledged by a number of participants. For some, invoking the mono/bi dichotomy affords bisexuality [...]",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Monosexual."
],
"links": [
[
"Monosexual",
"monosexual#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(chiefly informal) Monosexual."
],
"tags": [
"informal"
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/ˈmɒnəʊ/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈmɑnoʊ/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɒnoʊ"
},
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"audio": "En-au-mono.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/69/En-au-mono.ogg/En-au-mono.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/69/En-au-mono.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
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}
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