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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (8 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

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".

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Ooh, my favorite. Girls that look like boys and boys that look like girls, as well as anyone who generally looks androgynous.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Liking tomboys and/or femboys is always in alignment with any allosexual orientation

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

What's with changing her art style suddenly? It looks like he's in bed with a 4 year old

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago

They both changed art style

It's a common trope in anime commonly done to highlight a silly situation

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[–] [email protected] 135 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

I agree, and that's for the best, fuck oppressive gender stereotypes.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago

this is the way uwu~

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[–] [email protected] 146 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm tired of figuring out what's gay or straight. I just wanna fuck in peace.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Binary.exe stopped working.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

We are on lemmy we can acknowledge the .BLOB file type.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But me likey neat little boxes uwu

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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. [...]"

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