BisexualSo, today is pansexuality's international day...

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[–]dippintots 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

My honest question is: does it truly matter? It doesn’t have to be a competition of who gets the most attention (“they have a visibility day why don’t we?????”) and it’s not that many people who’s say “hearts not parts.” You could just as easily generalize gays, bi’s, lesbians etc with a negative connotation. You’re not making yourself look any better with the frying pan joke, either. People should be allowed to identify with whichever label they want. It’s not harming my life; I’m not losing sleep so I’m not worried.

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

It matters because it muddies the established definition of what a sexual orientation is. There are three basic sexual orientations (4 in slang, because there are different words for male and female homosexuals): heterosexual (opposite sex attracted), homosexual (same-sex attracted), and bisexual (both sex attracted). If we allow "pansexual", defined by them as "attraction to all genders", which is really just bisexual but woke and no preference for males or female (or some other arbitrary preference; they can't agree on the definition) then we allow every other sexual orientation to be defined by preferences rather than the concrete science of attraction to one or both sexes.

The same logic (gender-based attraction instead of sex-based) that allows "pansexuality" to exist as a valid sexual orientation, distinct from bisexuality, is the same logic that justifies redefining the terms lesbian and gay as "attraction to the same gender" i.e. including heterosexual attraction trans people with a personal belief that they are or should be the opposite sex, and deintegrates homosexuals.