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— An umbrella term for those who are unsure of their gender/don't know what gender they are/don't want to identify their gender/etc. who are exclusively or non-exclusively attracted to women.
UNLW—unlabeled/Uncertain/Undecided loving women
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— Зонтичный термин для неуверенных в своем гендере/не знающих какого они гендера/ не желающих обозначить свой гендер/etc. которых исключительно или не исключительно привлекают женщины.
АНЛВ—анлейблед /неуверенные/нерешительные любящие женщины
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Monospec Pride Flag
Mono-spec (mono- spectrum): an umbrella term for identities related to experiencing attraction to one gender [plus affection/relationships involving one gender].
The spectrum includes those who are exclusively attracted to sole one singular gender only (suptilic), and those who are fluid (i.e. abro-, novo-, amplusic), multioriented/centrioriented, varioriented/variangled, also mspec (multispec), cupiospec, orchidspec, or otherwise a-spec (e.g. arospec, acespec, aplspec, etc.) [along with other possible combinations].
For example, someone who is both gay and bi could consider their homo attraction as monospec. Lesbihets/straightbians could be monospec as a result of being multigender/genderfluid (could be a form of novosexuality). Anattractional viramorics or feminamorics could be monospec because of their affection or relationships, instead of their lack of attraction.
#mogai#monospec#mono-spec#monosexual spectrum#monoromantic#monosexuality#sexuality#orientation#mod ap#allospec#alospec#monspec#unispec#bi lesbian#bi gay#mspec gay#straightbian#novosexual#lesbihet#multiorientation#varioriented#pride-flag#flags
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Mono + Mspec Flags
Mono-
Monosexual / Monoromantic / Mono Oriented
Describes all orientations where one is exclusively attracted to one gender (and possibly other specific genders similar to that one gender)
Mono orientations are commonly already seen as exclusive attractions but “mono” could optionally be used as a prefix to specify that : Examples : Mono-gay, Mono-Lesbian, Mono-Straight
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Mspec-
Multisexual / Multiromantic / Multi Oriented
Describes all orientations where one attracted to multiple genders (with or without preferences) Such as : bi, pan, omni, etc..
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MspecMono / MonoMspec-
Describes all orientations where one is both mono and mspec, due to a variety of reasons
— examples : Being Abrosexual, Having a strong almost exclusive preference(s), Unique attachment to both mono and mspec experiences or being in the grey area between the two, Using the split attraction model (SAM), or other specific reasonings —
Orientation examples : Mspec-gay, Mspec-Lesbian, Mspec-Straight, Bi-gay, Pan-lesbian, Omni-Straight, etc…
#pride flag#queer flag#lgbt flags#mono#monosexual#monoromantic#mono oriented#mspec#mspec mono#multisexual#multiromantic#multimono oriented#orientations#attraction#allo allo#allo#allo aspec#a spectrum#mono gay#mono straight#exclusive attraction#multi attraction#mspec gay#mspec lesbian#bi#pan#mogai
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Ockham couldn't really be in a relationship because as much as heshethey enjoys the company, the fixation with the Fingerkings will always take precedence. The Greater London Polycule works well because Ockham can join up whenever heshethey has a moment and slip out again when it becomes a distraction.
Elias has never been in a romantic relationship, and probably has only slept with a small handful of people in his life. He may go through the motions, but any partner would soon realise that he doesn't truly care for them and would always put himself and his own goals above that of theirs and this would be the end. That isn't to say he doesn't love. He's absolutely not emotionally intelligent enough to recognise it (especially outside of romantic contexts), but he does very much love and is devoted to the Commodore.
Not really knowing who you are is bound to give you a "I'll try anything once" type attitude. For Nicholas, this has both worked out spectacularly (newfound love for rubbery lumps) and not so (spraining his ankle after a jump from Hater's Bridge sent him into shallower waters than expected).
#ockham#this was originally going to me tie into saying elias is very monosexual#though jury's still out on which end of that spectrum#and nicholas is far more willing to accept the idea that maybe one day he'll be attracted to someone outside of the established type#because what does he know he has less statistical information to work with#Roberts/Nite#roberts
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Mspec Lesbian Misconceptions
I still get exclusionary comments and reblogs on my friend's mspec lesbian infographic so I thought I'd make a sort of 'addon post' that answers basically everything!
Please check the infographic out! It's much shorter and it looks pretty
🌺 "Mspec always means that you're attracted to men"
⤷ Mspec is short for the 'multisexual (or other multi- attraction type) spectrum', meaning the attraction to multiple genders. Most folks who experience attraction to women and non-binary genders don't consider themselves mspec, but that doesn't mean that nobody can
⤷ As we understand the complexities of gender more and move past the 'only two genders' way, what counts as being bi or otherwise mspec will change
🌺 "There's no reason to reclaim old uses for the word lesbian from before lesbian separatism"
⤷ Lesbian separatists tried to exclude anyone that associated themselves with men or masculinity from lesbianism. This included bi people, trans people, butches and mascs, lesbians still married to men, lesbians living with men, and more. Some went as far as considering butch-for-femme relationships to be harmful. Why wouldn't people want to reclaim lesbian from a time before this ideology spread? See more here
🌺 "But bi women wanted to make their own spaces and stop using lesbian spaces and the lesbian label" ⤷ Obviously, some bi sapphics of the time would've wanted to be distinctly and only viewed as bi, and have no affiliation with lesbians, but plenty didn't. Implying that the rise of radical feminism in the lesbian community was wanted by all of the people they excluded is ridiculous. It wasn't a consensus
🌺 "Mspec lesbians just want to feel included in lesbian spaces"
⤷ You've hit the nail on the head actually, this isn't the gotcha you think it is. Mspec sapphics were originally welcome to use the word lesbian and exist in the lesbian community, and then they weren't, so some of them would like to be included again yes
🌺 "It takes away spaces that are just for monosexual lesbians"
⤷ There have been attempts made to create terms for monosexual lesbians (though usually people just mean 'not attracted to men' rather than monosexual), but the lesbian community thrived with bisexuals in it for a long time. Lesbian spaces are heavily dominated by monosexual lesbians as well
⤷ The real question here is why are you so keen to know for definite that nobody in your space is attracted to men? And what are you counting as 'attracted to men'? Are you assuming it based on dating habits? What label they use? What you consider to be attraction? Everyone views this stuff differently, you can't police it properly
🌺 "Lesbian can't be used in the split attraction model, it means no attraction to men at all"
⤷ Insisting that someone has to use 'homoromantic' rather than lesbian just because they're bisexual or vice versa is pointless. Not only is lesbian a more open and functional label (it specifies attraction to women and doesn't imply that the user is also a woman), but defining it as an absence of attraction to men is very 1970s lesbian separatist of you
🌺 + "If you're fluid between mspec and lesbian just say abrosexual", "If you heavily prefer women just say homoflexible" and so on so forth
⤷ There are probably terms that technically apply to you that you don't use because you're not connected to the label or it doesn't fit quite right. The same applies here. Abrosexual is very broad, homoflexible implies 'same gender' attraction to women, and we've established that there's nothing stopping them from using mspec and lesbian instead
#lesbian#misconceptions#mogai#lgbtq#pride month#radinclus#inclusion#inclusivity#lesbian positivity#lesbian awareness week#sapphic#wlw#nblw#queer#mogai flag#mspec lesbian#bi lesbian#pan lesbian#omni lesbian#lunian#lesbian pride#lesbian community#lesbian history#mspec#bisexual#bi#pansexual#pan#omnisexual#omni
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Abrosexual : a sexual orientation on the multisexual spectrum in which one's sexuality is changing or fluid. One 's sexuality may be fluid between any number of sexualities, whether it be monosexual, multisexual, allosexual, asexual, etc.
#abrosexual#pride emoji#pride flag#queer emoji#queer flag#queer community#plural community#actually plural#plural stuff#plural system#pluralgang#plurality#plural blog#plural#pluralblr#web resources#pride stars
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The Ace and Aro Flag, it's meaning and history!


I've decided to do both flags together because I wanted to make sure both got visibility. I've noticed that with less popular flags they tend to get lost and I didn’t want that happening with either flag.
These are the Aromatic (aro, top) flag and the Asexual (ace, bottom) flag. The Aro flag was created in 2014 by Camron Whimsy on Tumblr. The meaning of each colors are:
Green and Light green: "the aro-spectrum (and aromanticism itself represented by green because green belongs to us now hell yeah). this covers every identity under the aro umbrella - demi, grey, lith/akoi, wtf/quoiro, cupio etc. EVERYTHING. even ones that don’t have names yet."
White: "basically the ‘platonic’ stripe - friendship/platonic and aesthetic attraction/queerplatonic relationships/family, the importance and validity of all non-romantic relationships and feelings and non-romantic forms of love etc. etc. etc. etc."
Black and grey: "the sexuality spectrum - acknowledging aro-aces, aromantic allosexuals, and everything in between because we are a diverse lot"
I think it's really cool that the Aro flag hold so much significance and I honestly didn’t know that the white stood for queer platonic friendship and so much more. It makes me appreciate my queer platonic relationships with my aro friends more.
The Ace flag was created in 2010 (making next year, 2025, our 15th year with it!) by by a member of the Asexual Visibility and Education Network (AVEN). The colors represent:
Black: Asexuality
Grey: greysexuality and demisexuality
White: Allosexuality
Purple: The community as a whole
Asexuality has been around for forever and it's earliest recordings of asexuality was in 1869 by Karl-Maria Kertbeny, where he describes homosexuality, heterosexuality, and monosexuals.
Jaden Animations has one of the best videos I've seen explaining what both are and I really love it, i'll put the link here!
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#lgbt history#lgbtq community#lgbtqia#lgbtqiia+#lgbt#asexual#acespec#ace pride#aromantic#aroace#aromantism#aspec#jaiden animations#aromanitc#aromance#Youtube
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𓉸✙ mirrattract ┈ a term under the aromantic spectrum in which, due to not understanding attraction, one mirrors the attraction others hold for them. for example: if someone experiences platonic attraction towards you, you experience platonic attraction towards them. platonic can be replaced with any attraction type. this may or may not modify one’s sexuality or affect it, such as a monosexual identifying as m-spec due to being confessed to by the same gender, etc. a recoining of mirrattract, original coining post can be found here.
#✙ ⊰ creations#mirrattract#aromantic#aroace#aspec#mogai#mogai coining#mogai safe#actually mogai#mogai community#mogai flag#mogai term#mogai orientation#attraction label#mogai friendly#mogai label
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STiMMYCAFE ’ S PRiDE ASK GAME !
the rules are simple! send an emoji on this list to either the ask game creator or the blog that reblogged it and they will answer with a stimboard that corresponds with the prompt sent! you can also use it as a prompt list instead of depending on asks. how you play is up to you!
🩷 : make a stimboard based off a lgbtq+ character. this can be canon or a headcanon!
❤️ : make a stimboard based off a source with lgbtq+ characters. this can be canon or headcanons!
🧡 : make a stimboard based off a lgbtq+ ship. this can be canon or not!
💛 : make a stimboard based off your (favorite) monosexual flag (ex. gay, lesbian, etc.)
💚 : make a stimboard based off your (favorite) multisexual spectrum flag (ex. bi, pan, etc.)
🩵 : make a stimboard based off your (favorite) aroace spectrum flag (ex. aro, ace, graysexual, demiromantic, aroaceflux, etc.)
💙 : make a stimboard based off your (favorite) flag under the transgender/nonbinary umbrella (ex. transfem, transmasc, genderfluid, etc.)
💜 : make a stimboard based off your (favorite) flag under the xenogender umbrella (ex. catgender, pupgender, etc.)
🤎 : make a stimboard based off your (favorite) presentation flag (ex. butch, twink, etc.)
🌈 : send a prompt not listed here, or send it promptless for another pride related stimboard of the blogger’s choice!
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A celebration of Joey Batey offering TV show writers a pure masterclass on how to write a queer character with a queer audience in mind.
Can I just say how much respect and appreciation I have for Joey, that he went above and beyond in term of queer representation, by bringing some much needed attention towards people on the aromantic spectrum, and making gender a complete romantic/sexual (and even queerplatonic) non-issue?
I mean, imagine that you are part of a show with a young and powerful canonically bisexual lead, Ciri, who is at an age where people might start exploring their own sexuality, slowly figuring out who and what they like, etc.
And suddenly, you're offered to also be playing another queer lead character, with a male love interest - while knowing it will be the very first time that the audience will be officially introduced to the idea of Jaskier being queer...
And, instead of going with the more familiar, and often expected:
"A man that's always been with women before, now finds himself romantically and sexually attracted to a man, and starts questioning his own sexual identity..." coming out story...
You find yourself with a unique opportunity to go a bit further, to explore more specific and lesser known LGBTQ+ themes, and to delightfully surprise your queer audience!
You can take a full dive into the wonderful world of Queerdom, by exploring a different - yet just as equally important and significant - coming out story!
i.e.
"A usually aromantic person, that has always experienced squishes, smushes, and possibly meshes before, finds himself experiencing a (sapio)romantic crush for the very first time, and starts questioning his romantic identity..."
Of course, a lot of people in the audience will probably miss this.
The monosexuals that have been conditioned to believe that gender must always play a role in how one experiences romantic and sexual human attraction - will likely be paying more attention to how Jaskier is showing an interest in a man.
People that are used to equating "falling in love" with "romantic attraction", might miss the significance and importance of Vespula specifically using the word crush to refer to Jaskier's current attraction towards Radovid.
People that typically see non-gender-related orientations as "mere preferences", or have simply never heard of them, might miss how Jaskier goes on and on about how "emotionally intelligent and insightful Radovid is" , with a look of vulnerability and wonder, putting emphasis on how different he feels about him.
People that were taught to see emotional relationships according to the "platonic vs romantic" binary - with a strict idea of what each means and implies - may not be familiar with what queerplatonic relationships are, and will interpret Jaskier saying that he loves Geralt "platonically" as meaning that he's not as deeply and strongly in love with him as one might usually expect a romantic partner to be.
They'll be unaware that there are committed life partners out there - that would go to the end of the world for each other and perhaps even share sexual intimacy together - that don't have any romantic feelings for each other whatsoever.
Romance does not mean "being in love", romance means "being in love in a romantic way".
And it is not the only way.
To aromantics and greyromantics - and even to romantic people that also have the capacity to fall in love in non-romantic ways, such as yours truly - queerplatonic and alterous relationships aren't "lesser than" romantic ones, they are different.
And Radovid... is different.
Radovid is no better, nor worse, than a hammer...
But he's a spoon.
He's a romantic connection that is completely new, exciting and intriguing to explore for Jaskier!
According to Joey Batey, as a sapioromantic panromantic pansexual, Jaskier finds himself developing a strong sapioromantic and sapiosexual connection with Radovid.
Jaskier is representing people that aren't romantically or sexually affected by a partner's gender in the way that they experience sexual atttraction, and people that experience a lot of tertiary attraction when falling in love, while very seldom ever being able to love others in a romantic way (sapioromantics / greyromantics... ).
Jaskier is a queer character that was truly created with a queer audience in mind!
He was created so that all of us that don't see or experience love according to the platonic vs romantic binary.
All of us that are hyperaware of those other forms of attraction (tertiary, aesthetic, sensual, etc.) that one can experience for another human being.
All of us that don't see or experience romance or sexuality as something that ties into their partner's gender.
Could finally see themselves in a character on screen.
Of course, you still need characters that experience their sexuality while feeling like the gender of their romantic and sexual partners matters - including those that love all genders... Desperately so!
First, because all members of the queer community matter and are equally as important and valuable. Rejoicing over Batey diving into lesser known and familiar representation doesn't mean that familiar and better known representation should not be encouraged and celebrated as well!
This is not a "there should be less gay character on TV to make room for more aromantics and asexuals instead" post.
This is a "we need queer identities people are less familiar with in addition to proper gay, lesbian and bisexual representation" post.
And second, because you still need characters that don't stray too much from the platonic v.s. romantic binary, too - and the usual social conventions tied to romance and sexuality - so that non-queer audiences can more easily connect, and empathize with, the queer community.
Because, when the existence of bisexuality already is something that monosexual people often have a hard time understanding, acknowledging, or even believing in...
Well, going:"By the way, I'll have you know that you can totally want to have sex with, live, and raise children with someone you've got platonic feelings for, too!"
You might accidentally lose them.
And if you try to explain that some people are unable to romantically connect with anyone, unless they get specifically attracted to their intellect (often combined with their aesthetic looks)!
That's likely going to be even worse!
And this is where Batey's pure genius comes to light.
Because he's just shown that you can find a beautiful and organic way to explore queerness more in depth - totally stepping away from the usual relationship conventions and specifically addressing your queer audience - simply by using a vocabulary that said queer audience will understand and connect with.
You can make it clear that the character is on the greyromantic spectrum, by having Vespula state that she's never ever seen him with a crush before!
You can put the emphasis on him being more specifically sapioromantic, by having him dreamily go on about how Jaskier perceives Radovid's intellect.
And, if Batey is to be believed - and he's been exploring the idea of Jaskier being queer since the very beginning of the show (without any clear response from the writers or producers regarding Jaskier's sexuality) - then, by making it clear that he loves Geralt platonically in Season 3, he's also allowing us to revisit all the scenes between Jaskier and Geralt from Season 1, while enjoying them through an aromantic lense.
Someone on the aromantic spectrum watching that scene might thus find themselves deeply connecting with the strong platonic squish (although it could also be a mesh) that Jaskier immediately experienced the very first time he saw Geralt...
You can see Jaskier as specifically believing himself to be Geralt's best friend in the whole wide world, and instinctively reading into Geralt allowing him to physically/sensually touch him (rubbing chamomile onto his lovely bottom) as him possibly desiring a queerplatonic connection with him also.
And, the scene where he's suggesting to Geralt that they could get away for a while, head to the coast together...
Where he mentions that life is too short not to do what pleases you, and admits that he's trying to work on what pleases him...
Look, the fact is that there's always been aromantic and greyromantic people experiencing tertiary forms of love and attractions for other people long before we had any words to put on those emotions, desires and needs.
So, it's rather easy to see Jaskier as someone that is experiencing a powerful alterous attraction for his best friend, and realizing that what pleases him the most, is the idea of them sharing a queerplatonic or alterous relationship together...
It makes sense to interpret what Jaskier is saying as him trying to express and articulate the love he feels for Geralt the best he can - implying that Geralt is what pleases him - while trying to ask Geralt if he also feels the same way...
Sadly, Geralt doesn't quite get it; likely because he's also romantically and sexually attracted to Yennefer and, when he loses her, instinctively throws all his own hurt and heartbreak at Jaskier - blaming him for everything that (he believes) lead to that loss!
And just because the break up Jaskier experienced wasn't a romantic one doesn't make it any less devastating.
Poor loving bard was making plans for them to continue to travel and enjoy their time together as the platonic boyfriends he believed them to be, and Geralt told him that all Jaskier had to offer him was a giant pile of shit that he kept shoveling his way!
There's been a lot of alterous and/or queeplatonic subtext since Season 1 (that could also read as romantic, but should never be used as evidence or proof of romance if we were talking about a real life partnership).
And, while I do acknowledge that queerbaiting has been messing with our ability to perceive and appreciate those relationships as such, I do think that, canonically establishing Jaskier as a sapioromantic, at the very least, clearly addresses the reasons why Jaskier was behaving in such an amorous way with Geralt without being romantically in love with him.
For once, instead of mocking the queer audience for "having mistakenly read two same-gender close friends as being romantically attracted to each other" (while doing as much as they can to suggest romance to keep them hooked!), they are canonically establishing Jaskier as a sapioromantic, with him experiencing his first romantic crush with Radovid.
The show's dialogue is telling people on the aromantic spectrum that "Yes, Jaskier is one of you. He gets squishes, meshes, lushes, and can desire a queerplatonic relationship with a best friend he's got strong platonic feelings for also."
You can speak to your queer audience, without fully risking alienating your non-queer audience, by simply using clues, and a language that your queer audience understands.
And I will forever be grateful to Joey Batey for having understood it, and having so skillfully managed it.
As someone who is ambiamorous, panalterous, panromantic, demisexual, and pansexual, all the nuances and details he brought to Jaskier's queerness was a pure delight, and spoke to me in a way that no TV show character has ever spoken to me before (except, perhaps, in "Sense8", but the whole show itself was about what it meant to love and be human, with main characters sharing a supernatural psychic bond making them more likely to open themselves to all the queer forms of love... whereas shows like "The Witcher" is of a more mainstream fantasy show).
I wish I had a way to contact him to tell him thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for breaking gender boundaries, and "platonic vs romantic" boundaries with Jaskier, and offering us a character that is one of the purest, most beautiful, and most perfectly balanced love song to queerness that one could have written and sung about!
Jaskier is a queer representation groundbreaking masterpiece on a show such as this.
That representation is as intelligent, insightful, and sharp as Prince Radovid himself.
And Extraordinarily Things said more about Jaskier's feelings, issues, and vulnerabilities than any piece of dialogue ever could have, and had me weeping my eyes out by the time Jaskier sang about how he finally felt like he was enough...
Well done Joey, you absolutely brilliant and deeply empathetic real-life bard and poet, well done...
#Jaskier#The Witcher#Sapioromantic Jaskier#Pan Jaskier#Pansexual Jaskier#Panromantic Jaskier#Greyromantic Jaskier#Sapioromantism#Greyromantism#Panromantism#Pansexuality#Queer representation#LGBTQ+#Queer#Joey Batey is a genius#Please ask him to guide you in addressing Ciri's bisexuality as well!#Queerplatonic#queerplatonic relationship#My posts#My thoughts
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Monosexual Trans* Pride Flag
Mono- attracted to one gender; monoromantic or monosexual.
Trans*: transgender, transsex, transvestic, transnominal, transpronominal...
Genderqueer Monosexual Pride Flag
Genderqueer: umbrella term for non-normative, non-assimilationist, non-cis, and non-straight gender identities, experiences, expressions, presentations, and related.
Nonbinary Mono- Pride Flag
Non-binary: umbrella term for identities outside the gender binary; someone whose gender is beyond strict man/woman binary; non-aptobinary; not exclusively nor integrally male or female all the time; binaryn't (not binary); non-dual; non-dichotomous; neither masculine or feminine.
#nonbinary#gq#nb#genderqueer#trans#transgender#non-binary#non-binarie#lgbtqiapn+#liomoqai+#pride flags#monosexual#monoromantic#monospec#mono- spectrum#monossexual
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Gay flags
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MonoGay
Mono-gaylm
Exclusive Gay/Queer Attraction to men and possibly some specific folks under the nonbinary umbrella that aren’t women-aligned
MspecGay
Mspec-gaylm
Gay/Queer Attraction to men and similar genders to them but not exclusively
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2 variants each because why not, one is based off the popularized gay flag and the other has the layout of the cinthean gay flag
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- ( Lesbian Counterpart ) -
#gay#gaylm#mlm#nbylm#monogay#achillean#cinthean#mono gay#mspecgay#mspec gay#mono attracted#mspec#multi attraction spectrum#monosexual#monoromantic#multisexual#multiromantic#mspecmono#mogai#Shk0lstun-Flags::attractions
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This is a somewhat different conversation, but I believe that they are! There are many reasons one may choose to identify as a bi lesbian or mspec lesbian today. I don’t find that policing labels, gatekeeping and infighting helps or protects our communities, and again separatism was a trend that originated largely within the TERF-y, gender essentialist circles of second wave feminism. The only folks that are vehemently against bi+ lesbians (much like the only folks vehemently against bi+ butches and femmes) appear to be keyboard warriors online. I’ve never met such a person that actually is well-involved in LGBTQ+ activism, community and/or academics. We have way, way worse issues to worry about, and more important hills to die on! Empathy should always come first. All that matters is that a label is being used respectfully.

I learned a lot today from Obviously Queer’s video essay “FEMME: Lesbian History, Identity, Politics and Invisibility” and femmebis’ “The “Lesbian-Only Term” Myth: A Comprehensive Historical Essay on ‘Butch’ and ‘Femme’ ”.
#i’ve ranted about this before but it’s kinda crazy how triggered some folks online get about this#sapphic#wlw#lesbian#lgbtq+#butch#masc#fem#femme#queer#queer bipoc#bi lesbian#bisexual lesbian#biromantic lesbian#split attraction model#lgbtq#lgbt#wuh luh wuh#wuhluhwuh#mspec lesbian#multisexual#multisexual spectrum#polysexual#monosexual#bi+#pan#pansexual#fluid#kinsey scale#transbian
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*This includes anyone who experiences attraction to multiple genders, even if you don't necessarily identify with the multisexual label specifically.
**Polysexual is commonly used as a specific term for people who are attracted to multiple genders, but distinctly not all genders. However, it still sees some use as an umbrella term for all people attracted to multiple genders, regardless of how many.
***BOP stands for bisexual, omnisexual, polysexual/pansexual. A plus (+) may be used to indicate inclusion of other identities involving attraction to multiple genders, beyond these four labels.
#poll#polls#multisexual#multiromantic#mspec#m spec#bisexual#pansexual#polysexual#omnisexual#pluralian#plurisexual#multisexual spectrum#multi attraction spectrum#lgbt#lgbtq#lgbtqia#queer
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Okay but like. I see so many people complaining about people trying to ship aro/ace characters, claiming that "oh you wouldn't ship a gay character with someone of the opposite gender, right?" And, like... Yeah, there's definitely a double standard here, but... I mean, as someone who is on the aro spectrum, the argument that shipping is not done as an act of appreciation to the canon characters and their arcs, but just to scratch the itches in your brain, really isn't wrong. So, em...
Can we stop gatekeeping monosexual gay characters?
Like, people look at me weird wherever I say that Angel Dust and Cherri Bomb have trauma-bonded-lovers energy. I had people calling me a lesbophobic bigot (yes these were the words used) for saying I wish Willow Rosenberg had stayed with Oz. None of it is about interpreting canon in one of the ways the authors allowed, it's about imagining the story I wish I got to hear. Like, if you really think the reason fanfiction exists is to honor the story that the canon work was trying to tell, I'm sorry but it just doesn't look like you understand fanfiction. And no, it's not disrespectful to wish you got to see an allo character's story instead of the story of this aro/ace character. Sometimes, a given story would be served better by being about an experience which you as an individual can never have. Like, I'm someone who never really believed in trusting ultimate authority, or in fighting with all your might for justice, these are not necessarily things I think are BAD to believe in, I'd actually probably be happier if I was able to believe in certain versions of those ideas, but I just can't bring myself to. However, I wouldn't be upset if I saw someone, for example, writing a fic about Sherlock from BBC Sherlock, which canonically basically shares that lack of belief with me, learning and internalizing the fact that humanity is actually worth believing in. Like, is there a scenario that aligns with his canonical characterization in which he'd be able to do that? No, probably not. But do I think there could be a story about that that's worth telling? Absolutely. So yeah, on the same dime, I think if you find a hypothetical, non-canonical story about a character who is canonically aro/ace in which that character experiences romantic/sexual attraction to be a valuable story for you, I don't believe anyone should judge you for writing or enjoying that hypothetical story. So, em, yeah.
#shipping discourse#yeah I'm getting into that one again#asexual#aromantic#aroace#gay#lesbian#lgbtq#lgbtqia
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can my asexual ass chime in? I think I want to contribute with something.
Biphobia and pan phobia go hand in hand with aroacephobia. By refusing to acknowledge that sexuality is a spectrum as well as romantic attraction being a spectrum too, mono sexual queer people are contributing to aroacephobia. Literally disregarding the split attraction model, which affects EVERYONE, not just aroace people. There are bisexual people who are mostly or only romantically attracted to women, but sexually attracted to both men and women and vice versa. There are bisexual people who are equally attracted to men and women. There are bisexuals who are romantically mostly attracted to men, but are sexually attracted to both men and women. The concept of bi/pan lesbians, etc.
Monosexual lesbians are starting to say weird shit like “if you as a woman would have sex with a woman but not date her, you’re bigoted”. Trying to hide their phobias by accusing people of being internally lesbophobic and bigoted.
Newsflash, people are allowed to be on a spectrum of sexuality.
and also, I’m so SICK of lesbians saying shit like “a bisexual woman leaving you for a man is a different type of pain” NO ITS NOT.
ALL OF THIS
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