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[–]ArthnoldManacatsaman🇬🇧🌳🟦 44 insightful - 6 fun44 insightful - 5 fun45 insightful - 6 fun -  (1 child)

There seems to be a bifurcation of the notion of sexuality into 'vanilla, straight sexuality' and 'LGBT+'. Anything that is not heterosexual, PIV, missionary-with-the-lights-off sex is 'queer' and therefore automatically part of 'LGBTQ+' and, of course, lumped in with all of us. Did you use handcuffs in the bedroom once? Congratulations, you're 'queer'! Did you kiss a girl wearing cherry chapstick in college? Great, you're 'queer' too! Did you choose a female avatar in a video game that one time? Well I've got exciting news for you, bucko.

Similarly, there's an atomisation of this 'LGBTQI+' sexuality into ever-finer distinctions and subcategories. Do you enjoy casual sex outside the context of a relationship? You're actually an 'aromantic', and you're a VALID part of 'LGBTQIA+', here's your flag. Are you actually just kind of a slut? You're 'polyamorous', and you're a valid part of 'LGBTQIAP+'.

It's this exact kind of shit that rehabilitates the old idea that people who are homosexual are actually deviants and fetishists.

This is disgusting and it must be stopped.

[–]OPPRESSED_REPTILIANIntersex male | GNC | Don't call me "a gay", "twink" or "queen" 21 insightful - 2 fun21 insightful - 1 fun22 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

It's actually pretty disgusting because it implies that simply being non-straight and gender non-conforming means you're a sexual deviant who's into all sorts of "weird" things.

Like fuck off. I might be homosexual and into some pretty fucked up stuff I wish I wasn't, but I refuse to engage in "poly" shit or fetishes that degrade people.