ImANargleHunter said
I know! I'm just saying you could be a biromantic heterosexual maybe? Unless you do wanna get funky with guys.
I do want to.
ImANargleHunter said
I know! I'm just saying you could be a biromantic heterosexual maybe? Unless you do wanna get funky with guys.
Rare said Well, I don't like to have sex with a guy and a girl, but I have romantic feelings from them. What would I be (besides Bisexual, I know that I'm one but I don't have any sexual feelings from boys and girls?).
Sole said
I do want to.
Doivid said
Well that just makes you a slurry.no jk like I said probably bisexual. I kinda figured there was a sexual element, or I would have mentioned the romantic/sexual distinction.also lol this article: At least she's totally up front about it.
Aragorn said
All these names to identify people who are "different." Can we just call them people?
Aragorn said
All these names to identify people who are "different." Can we just call them people?
Robeatics said
Look, not to be rude, but sexuality is something that actually affects people differently and is much more easily discussed when one has an array of terms to choose from. Trying to discuss nonbinary panromantic demisexuals would be pretty damn hard to do if you had to say "You know those people? Like, the people who don't conform to the gender binary and who like other people either within or outside of the gender binary, but they don't like them sexually unless they have formed a strong, trusting connection? Those people?"To just say "Let's just call them people!!!" essentually erases their identity and makes it much harder to gain visibility and community. You wouldn't look at a cake, a donut, a cupcake and a cookie and start yelling about all the terms for them because "Why can't we just call them sweets all the time!"
Aragorn said
I'm not saying we should take away people's individuality. Not at all. I just find it ridiculous we have to describe a person's sexuality like a science experiment.
Hank said
I personally think that "non-binary" is a ridiculous concept that doesn't exist and people who feel neither man nor woman have other, unidentified issues going on. Mother nature, in every species of mammal and many other animals besides, assigns us a gender. There is no middle ground and there never has been. That you can be assigned the wrong gender is something I'm willing to accept, but rejecting both male and female is just silly.
Robeatics said
What is even your definition of describing something like a science experiment? Using accurate words?No middle ground. Really. Explain snails.
Aragorn said
But WHY do we have to come up with a different name every time somebody finds a new way to love somebody else(or them self)?
Robeatics said Look, not to be rude, but sexuality is something that actually affects people differently and is much more easily discussed when one has an array of terms to choose from. Trying to discuss nonbinary panromantic demisexuals would be pretty damn hard to do if you had to say "You know those people? Like, the people who don't conform to the gender binary and who like other people either within or outside of the gender binary, but they don't like them sexually unless they have formed a strong, trusting connection? Those people?"To just say "Let's just call them people!!!" essentually erases their identity and makes it much harder to gain visibility and community. You wouldn't look at a cake, a donut, a cupcake and a cookie and start yelling about all the terms for them because "Why can't we just call them sweets all the time!"
Sherlock Holmes said
I don't care who is what gender and whether they want to get it on with anyone or no one at all -- if this thread starts getting heated, then I'll be forced to close it.Just sayin'.
Magic Magnum said
Imagine if what you said there was applied to say sex, or race. Would we insist on going around saying "I am an Asian", "I am an African", "I am a Scot who lost my freedom!" etc? Or would we go "I'm a human being?".That's what people are trying to get across, that at the end of the day we are all human beings despite who we're attracted or not attracted to.Now, that being said I understand sexuality is a bit different. It's not something physically noticeable that a person can know about you without asking, it's something inside. And I'm all for the variety of LGBT terms there are available in order to better clarify/define one for a descriptive sense. So say instead of going on for 5-10 minutes saying "I like ______.... but not _____ and only in ______ way" you can quickly go "I'm a Pansexual/Asexual etc.".But there also becomes a point where it stops being a descriptive term, and people start using it to define themselves.You are not your sexuality, your entire personality is not simply who you are attracted to. You have feelings, interests, hobbies, opinions, friendships etc. All those help make up who you are too, and that's part of what people are trying to say.
Sherlock Holmes said
I don't care who is what gender and whether they want to get it on with anyone or no one at all -- if this thread starts getting heated, then I'll be forced to close it.Just sayin'.