Ok, i read the comments and... Now I'm regretting the cruisenart order on Amazon.... That saucepan though... Damn
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I think pansexual should be for people who would fuck an alien who has no corollary on the human gender spectrum.
The only way to truly begin understanding pansexual or bisexual is to be either pansexual or bisexual.
Bisexual - You’re over 35
Pansexual - You’re under 35
Omnisexual - You’ve spent way more time thinking about your sexuality than getting laid
Demisexual - You’re way more queer than you’re ready to admit.
Sapiosexual - You’re a straight guy trying and failing to impress the cute barista by seeming cool and intellectual.
Flexisexual - you'll take what you can get
I've been Demisexual since I first watched Striptease as a teenager.
I like to call it "millenial" vs "gen z" pan/bisexuality
I'm pansexual, solidly a millennial, and started using the term nearly a decade and a half ago. Which was late to the game, since the term had been around for about a decade before that.
Swear I heard it late nineties
I'm biromantic; I like many different genders. But I most certainly do not like all genders. And those I do like, I do not like equally
To be fair, pansexuality is under the umbrella of bisexuality. What makes it more confusing is that there is no rule saying that bisexuals must only be attracted to 2 genders. Nor is there a rule stating that a bisexual must care about the gender of their partner.
Edit: bisexual is a very old term, but it does not strictly refer to only two genders.
Doesn't the name imply only two?
No it implies once every other week
Wait
Well then what's semisexual?? I'll never get this figured out
Shit, that's the rough life. I'll take the twice a week definition instead please, Trebek.
Or twice a week?
The "bi" is for both homosexual and heterosexual relations. Not gender itself.
TIL
Sure but it can be interpreted as "people who share my gender" and "people who do not share my gender."
This is off-topic, but... For some reason, that reminded me of a funny exchange I had with someone who was buying a lottery ticket, years ago...
Me: "What are the chances that you'll win?"
Him, with a heavy southern (US) accent: "50/50. You either win or you don't."
It does, but definitions often diverge from the original over time
That's because it's an extremely old term; it merely refers to someone who is attracted to more than one gender.
Actually it originally refers to having two sexes. Aka hermaphroditic.
I really hate how the word “sexual” has evolved in meaning into “relating to the activity that evolved to happen between the two main sexes”. We have the perfectly good Greek root “ero” and for some reason we have gradually muddled up the meaning of “sexual”.
Ok but did we really need yet another term that is difficult to distinguish from pre-existing terms?
When you have to write an essay to describe it, that should be a clue.
Bisexual is the original term.
A clue to what? That some concepts take more than one second to explain?
As someone who identifies as pansexual, the distinction i make is that I don't consider gender when vetting a potential partner, it's just not a metric that is part of that decision.
Aside from that, your description here is spot on from what I understand at least. Of course gender and sexuality is a social construct so other people may feel differently
Err shouldn't it be the other way around? Ie bisexuality under the umbrella of pan-?
No, not really. Bisexual is older and not enough people can even agree on what pansexuality is. There are people with gender preferences who still identify as pansexual, which kinda distills any point of the word.
Fair enough
I tend to head canon it as binarysexual and pansexual, just as a way to keep them straight (heh) when running through things in thought
That's incorrect though. Bisexual means "homo- and heterosexual" as in, "those that share your gender and those that don't".
Which is the same as pansexual. But pansexual is a term invented by people who didn't understand the above.
Being a lover of cast iron cookware, I identify as pansexual.
Ooh saucy
Pan-sub identified
I dominate all my dishwasher contents
Wait, wait, wait, pansexual is when you have a love for wide screen photography, right?
Stupid sexy panorama
What are the columns called, the stalactite-stalagmites in this analogy.
When a bisexual and a pansexual love each other very much... they grow together :)
Agender, neopronoun, and nonbinary identities
Those are still covered under bisexual though. Technically, if you're a woman attracted to nonbinary people, you're heterosexual.
And this is why we invented new and better words.
My understanding is that bisexuals select all partners from both sexes and pansexuals select all partners from all genders
Bi-Bi relationships.
This made my day. If Lemmy had awards I would award this post but awards are pointless. So this comment will do. I laughed so hard at this.
TIL stalactites are pan....
I kinda thought pansexual was more open to the whole lgbtqi+ and bi people were more just into the lgb parts of the acronym.
Nah, that's the annoying myth that bi people hate. My partner is trans, and transitioned during our relationship, and I always joke that as a lazy bisexual this is perfect for me.
Really it's just old people (millenials) call it bi, and you young whipper-snappers with your eight track tapes get all pedantic about the sound of the word.
I'm into more than two, but not all genders.
The bisexual erasure's final form: generational.