@DeerOccultism Legit. Still, I was struck by how the categories are drawn in a fashion determined by whether society approves or persecutes…
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@DeerOccultism …your attraction, rather than by what characteristics one is actually attracted to. Oppression defining the whole schema.
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@chaosprime I think societal approval is subsequent to actual attraction. I don't think the phrasing for homo/hetero is rooted in oppression1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@DeerOccultism Point 1 yes, point 2 it's really seeming to me like it is. Attraction precedes, but then we're taught to identify along…
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@DeerOccultism …the line of "I am attracted to the same gender" not "I am attracted to X gender" — why if not for social sorting purposes?
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@DeerOccultism another benefit of categorizing attraction by attraction: it isn't instantly reduced to a broken mess by the first NB person
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@chaosprime andro/gyno doesn't account for them either1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@DeerOccultism It's an expandable schema. Hetero/homo isn't. It denies NB ppl as subjects, above and beyond not including them as objects.
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@DeerOccultism (Part of why the "among others" in my initial tweet. Defining by opposition implicitly reifies the binary.)
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@chaosprime that's more reasonable. I don't rly have any retort or mental capacity rn to reply to this well. Sorry.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@DeerOccultism No trouble! Thanks for responding at all, it was definitely thought-provoking to dig into it. :)
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