Ok. But, you look annoyed here, about gender relations, [that there are] 'people who have trouble comprehending...'
https://twitter.com/HPluckrose/status/967553894451642368 …
Although I completely agree w/ you, @DM_Berger raised some logically interesting polyamarous/pansexual counters, where we could be pitied.
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Only if they apply it to other people. If they need sex to feel any close bond with people but recognise that other people can have close non sexual relationships and don't feel they're missing out on friendship, this is neutral.
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I don't see the connection with polyamory or pansexuality. Those people are fully capable of loving relationships which aren't sexual too! I know because I seem to have a lot of polyamorous friends.
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@DM_Berger, but if you review the thread, he makes an interesting argument where your annoyance/pity leads to polyamarous/pansexual feeling the same about monogamous/hetero limitations given the lack of emotional depth to experience more options. -
I don't see that at all.
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I can also feel sorry for people who are limited sexually. This doesn't really relate to being able to have close bonds that aren't sexual.
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(1/2)My reference, while possibly not a proper reflection of
@DM_Berger's point, stems from this thought experiment: https://twitter.com/DM_Berger/status/967593259282255874 … If 'people who have trouble comprehending...lack emotional depth', then a pansexual/polyamarous can claim hetero./monog. can claim our -
incapacity to experience these preferences limits our depth; as a pansexual has more options for deeper depth, and polyamarous can experience more aggregate depth. Helen, I butchered this w/ typos and incomprehensible construction. Let me know if I should take another pass? ;P
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This is an argument about a default/natural/normal personality trait, right? “All real men want....” (Previously articulated by Harry in “When Harry Met Sally.”)
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Just speaking for myself, I am both male and heterosexual, and have had pretty good friendships with women and men over the last forty years without romance or sex in either case. I admit the possibility that I might, therefore, not be a “real man.”
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Sexual attraction is a largely involuntary emotion. I know there have been women who I’ve been attracted to who, I believe, it would be impossible to have a deep social relationship with that did not have continued sexual tension. So I have to deliberately distance myself.
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Wouldn't worry too much. My experience is that people who proclaim ideological purity have absolutely no problem indulging the inverse type of behavior that they criticize. They're not suppressed. They're compartmentalized. And that's why 50 shades of Grey is what it is.
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