• Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    16 hours ago

    I’m not convinced that there’s anywhere near as many straight people as straight people pretend there are. It’s gotta be closer to like fifty-fifty split between straight and bi/pan/ace/and so on.

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      I struggle to believe that anyone is 100.00% straight or gay. Like, really? You’re straight, sure… But there’s not one person? One situation? One perfect storm of circumstances where you’d try swinging the other way just a little bit?

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        Trust me, it is very frustrating to be around people who you would gladly fuck your brains out, but your brain is like “eww”.

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      16 hours ago

      Sexuality exists on a spectrum, imo. There are a few people who are totally straight, a few who are totally gay, but the vast majority fall somewhere in the middle. I do not feel that sexuality is a binary for most people. Of course, I could be completely wrong. I’m no scientist.

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          No, I’m his Mexican half brother, twice removed. I’m José Colorado. Nice to meet you!

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        14 hours ago

        I know everyone says it, but labels are pretty useless.

        Even terms like “masculine” and “feminine” hold so much dumb baggage they’re both functionally useless.

        I know guys who want to be subservient to pretty girls, and girls who want stocky girls to dominate them.

        Sexuality doesn’t fit neatly into boxes, even in the best of circumstances - so much of it is contextual, and is pointless to attempt to pin down.

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          Labels are just succinct words/phrases that try to give people some approximate idea of where we fall on a handful of vast spectrums. They’re not meant to be 100% accurate.

          I’m probably pansexual, but I tell people I’m bi because that’s a word most people are familiar with. And even then I’m like 80-90% into women. So I don’t really fit neatly into the bisexual box, but that label conveys enough relevant information.

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      16 hours ago

      I’m not even convinced we really managed to universally agree to uniform definition of what straight actually is. As long as that’s the case people, who want to be "normal“, will just stretch and twist the definitions to fit in, if they can fit in that way.

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        That’s a problem with everything though. No matter what definition for something you come up with, even if most of population agrees with it, you’d have aggresively vocal minority that will try and push it other way to conform it to their perception/goals etc.

        Straight means that, for example, as a man you are sexually attracted only to women. Already met people who dragged it into the “feminine people” camp instead and people who dragged it into “feminine women” camp. I tend on the other hand to stick into the tried and tested too much so I find both irritating xD

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          I more had “only/exclusively” vs “mostly/usually” in mind. But yes. There is also the question of whether its about gender or sex; homo-hetero being viewed as “same-opposite” vs “same-different”; what you wanna do with them … sex, relationship or both. Some think samesex intercourse is fine as long as you don’t want a relationship . And what even does attraction mean.

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      10 hours ago

      Similar.

      Charlie Sheen said that he didn’t pay women for sex. He paid them to have sex and then leave.

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        That actually kinda makes sense though. He was saying he didn’t want a relationship, just the sex part. I’m sure Charlie Sheen would have no problem finding people to have sex with that didn’t require payment, they would just expect a relationship as part of it.

        As opposed to other dude, who just was gay and was trying to sound like he wasn’t gay.

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          A comedienne is a lady comic. She is saying she wants men but doesn’t find them attractive, which as a straight lady, makes absolute sense to me. Especially as I get older I wish I was bi, women age better (or more women age well is probably a better way to put it), and it would be easier in some ways. But alas, it’s men for me.