• altphoto@lemmy.today
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    Maybe we could just open up the field? Like you’re with Dulce but will suck Brian when you’re in the dog house. Or maybe Brian and you can play with Dulce and Jessica?

    No judgment from my part.

  • romanticremedy@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 hour ago

    Seems like some of u have hard time differentiating

    • that person is good looking (regardless of gender)
    • I want to be friends with that person
    • I want to sleep with that person
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    6 hours ago

    I used to say things like, “I’m straight but” whatever. This was about 30 years ago, and I just didn’t know what to do with the idea of gay men, so I would occasionally say things to virtue signal that I was okay with it.

    But it turns out that I was just overcompensating and dealing with a bit of “main character” complex. I really didn’t need to say or do anything overt to be accepting of gay people.

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      Inversely, there’s “I’m bi, but…” To point out shit that can just be platonic that people keep trying to romanticize.

      Like, why can’t I complement a friend on their good fashion sense without people assuming there’s some attraction there? It’s bullshit

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    I told a female friend of mine that Lou Diamond Philips was a handsome guy, and she said I have the worst taste in men’s looks. That moment sometimes makes me question what an attractive guy is suppose to look like. Then I remember her boyfriend was a short, fat slob.

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      If she was thinking of him without facial hair, I’m with her. If she was thinking of him with facial hair and still not liking it, I’m with you. You’ll have to ask and clarify for us next time you see her. The internet (me) needs to know if your friend has bad taste or not.

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          Hrmm. See, that’s different too. I can’t say I disagree with her though. He’s, at best, only okay in that movie. They tried to do him up like a popstar, but it doesn’t quite really work. Older Lou Diamond Phillips is way hotter.

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      Lou Diamond Philips has always been hot. And he’s aging like wine: every time I see him, he looks even better.

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        a person that’s hetreonormative going for some gay relationships depending on the person or situation, with people that are presenting broadly more close to the way a person opposite their gender is, contrasting to a person that feels they are part of the LGBT+ community that also cultivates straight relationships if the person they are going for a relationship with if they are presenting broadly more close to their own gender.

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        No preference vs preference. Then 5/1 is strong preference. 1 is where a lot of the “I’m straight but” turn out to be.

        And yeah it’s a simplification, but Kinsey was a pioneer of sexology that tried to nonjudgementally figure out the actual lived experiences of people’s sexual orientation, and with that is going to come oversimplification

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    I dunno… You can be straight and still consider someone of the same sex attractive, just not so attractive that you’d want to sleep with them.

    I’m ace and I find both Tom Ellis and Jenna Coleman attractive, but that doesn’t mean I want to sleep with them, or anyone really.