Women identifying as non binary lesbians but dating exclusively men?

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[–]Rivergirl 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

No, I just don’t think that a women who has never engaged romantically or sexually with a woman and has no plans to ever do so should call themselves bisexual.

Gender critical used to be a place to discuss women’s issues from a radical feminist perspective. I would count how one labels their sexuality as part of that discussion. Have we moved on from examining women as a class and on to individual “whatever I say about myself goes” feminism?

Edit: missed a word that changed the meaning

[–]NDG 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I'm in the same situation as your friend - with man I've been with since high school, never dated a woman. Calling myself straight would be a lie.

It would erase years of agonizing over attraction to women, and trying to explain those feelings away as "something else." It would erase my teenage unrequited feelings for a friend of mine, which were passionate and intense and basically consumed my sophomore year of high school. It would erase the temptations I had to cheat on my then-boyfriend with a woman while at college. Yeah, I'm a "straight woman" - the kind with lifelong feelings of sexual attraction to women. Makes about as much sense as a woman with a penis.

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You don't know if she never plans to do it in the future.

Again, what do you call a lesbian who never has engaged romantically or sexually with another person but is only sexually attracted to women?

Edit: What if it was a woman claimed to be bisexual, but only dated women, and had no intentions of dating a man? Would that be incorrect? Last I checked, sexuality was based on sexual attraction, not who you want to date. If you have same sex attraction, then you are not straight.