• KT-TOT@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 days ago

    I feel the need to emphasize that there is no difference between a straight person and a gay person outside of where they fall on the kinsey scale, just as there’s no difference between a trans person and a cis person, outside of the difference between their physical traits and preferred gender.

    People are made up of tens of billions of neurons firing in a complicated puzzle, every one of us is unique and different. We should use caution and discretion in defining and perceiving the labels we use to categorize people using any trait that is not directly influenced by that trait.

    • ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 days ago

      i don’t believe in labeling people as such either, but for the sake of being able to communicate i’ve used the vernacular terms aforementioned, here within.
      Also the kinsey scale is yet another human attempt to collapse the broad, multidimensional aspects of sexuality into a one dimensional “scale”. Like the “political spectrum” plane, it’s overly reductive and attempts to understand and explain the elephant by feeling its tail.

      • n0respect@lemmy.world
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        That simple spectrum is how we get paradoxes like “there will always be yin in yang” and “horseshoe theory”. One dimension is not enough to describe the complex universe.