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I don't get all of these labels, to be honest.
Creating a whole spectrum of labels seems like the wrong direction - if I'm attracted to someone, that's all there is to it. The rest don't matter, especially if it's about other people's relationships, then all the more so - that's their business, and as long as nobody is getting harmed, then we need to support them.
I recently realized that the straightness category is very analogous to whiteness.
If a cis person were to date an agender enby, they might be heterosexual by virtue of being sexually attracted to someone of a different phenotypical gender/sex, but would probably not be considered straight. Despite the enby being hetero to the cis person, people might call them homos, even if the enby was AMAB and the cis person was a woman.
This is why people see attraction to trans people as not straight. If the chick has a dick or the dude doesn't, it just doesn't feel straight to cis people. Even if the trans person had The Surgery^TM^, the fact that they're not "normal" makes attraction to them not straight to these freaks.
Just like conceptions of whiteness, male/female, and pornography, straightness is really based on vibes rather than strict criteria. This allows the category to be used as a tool of exclusion and oppression, given legitimacy by its supposed ties to objective measures.
Straight =/= heterosexual. Liking femboys is gay, liking tomboys is gay, liking trans people is gay. An AMAB transfem & an AFAB transmasc in a trans for trans relationship aren't straight, even though they aren't homosexual from any coherent perspective. Straightness isn't coherent beyond separating normal from queer. All heterosexual people can find a trans person hot if we pass, and many will find us hotter if they know we're trans.
I'm bi with obvious bias towards femme presenting people, and some scummier gay men (those that forgot 2000's homophobia and now are transphobes on the same tropes) did harass me for being a "spicy heterosexual into getting pegged".
Ooh, my favorite. Girls that look like boys and boys that look like girls, as well as anyone who generally looks androgynous.
Depends on why you’re attracted to them? Obviously it’s a spectrum but if you’re attracted to feminine qualities, that’s pretty straight.
I figured out that I'm attracted to femeninity. What's between the legs doesn't really matter to me. My girlfriend told me that it makes me part of the community and not just an ally like I've always called myself.
Liking tomboys and/or femboys is always in alignment with any allosexual orientation
What's with changing her art style suddenly? It looks like he's in bed with a 4 year old
Her?
They both changed art style
It's a common trope in anime commonly done to highlight a silly situation
I like the meme but let's get that straight (no pun intended): both tomboys and femboys break out of the gender binary. Their very existence puts heteronormativity into question. If a boy can look like a girl and be it just having long hair, that's the beginning of the end of an oppressive system that should end as soon as possible.
I agree, and that's for the best, fuck oppressive gender stereotypes.
this is the way uwu~
I'm tired of figuring out what's gay or straight. I just wanna fuck in peace.
Enbies entered the chat.
Nonbinary identities kinda break the idea of straight or gay since straightness or gayness are depended on the gender of the person, so when that gender is outside of the binary it doesn't work right.
Binary.exe stopped working.
We are on lemmy we can acknowledge the .BLOB file type.
Can't we just move past the whole gay straight thing. We all like somethint and it's certainly almost never just black and white
Or maybe a conversation driver. Y'all tell me.
Edit: definitely a conversation driver, after all.
Important takeaway if you don't watch the linked (4min vlogbrothers) video: "[...] A question like "Is butt legs?" does demand engagement. [...]"