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[–]julesburm1891 46 insightful - 5 fun46 insightful - 4 fun47 insightful - 5 fun -  (5 children)

Only attracted to the opposite sex

Mostly / only attracted to the same sex

Ffs, they didn’t even give an actual homosexual response option on this survey.

[–]Taln_Reich 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Actually, I've got the survey rsults, and there was an actual homosexual response https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/ct/news/documents/2020-06/ipsos-mori-lgbtq-polling-tables_260620_public.pdf (page 18)

The numbers given are, that 9% (48 respondents) of all men and 6% (36 respondents) of all women asked claimed to be only attracted to the same sex (6% (8 respondents) in genration z claimed same sex attraction only, page 19).

[–]LilianH 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

But page 20/21 list only 3 women who identify as lesbian.

[–]reluctant_commenter 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I dunno about other people, but where I live, I have heard someone who is herself lesbian suggest to me that we shouldn't be using that word. The lesbians are still there, although in low numbers; just, many may feel bad about calling themselves that.

[–]julesburm1891 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

...what did she suggest calling ourselves instead?

[–]reluctant_commenter 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

She calls herself gay usually. Which is not wrong if you take gay = homosexual I guess, but at least where I am at, many people treat "gay" as a continuum, they say "a little bit gay" or bisexual people will be like "oh yeah I'm so gay" even though they are bi. Not trying to bash bisexuals, though! It seems like gay erasure and bi erasure...