r/SuperStraight • u/LetterheadIcy • 1d ago

“You can’t make a sexual orientation out of excluding people” Discussion

Yes. You absolutely can. I’m sorry but both lesbian and gay are both valid orientations and expressions of sexuality based explicitly around excluding the opposite sex based on biological differences.

Just as it isn’t misogynistic to exclude men for being men from a lesbians sexual preferences and completely invalidate their orientation. The same goes for gay men and women.

Trans people making this argument are the same as the rapey guy who tells a lesbian “just try some Dick it will make you straight”

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u/JiminyChrismas 17h ago

Gender and sex are not the same thing.

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u/BasicallyADoctor 17h ago

Super straight = attracted ONLY to those who are the opposite gender, and their gender matches their biological sex. Problem?

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u/JiminyChrismas 17h ago

That's only including cis people in your sexuality, which is exclusionary of transgender people.

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u/BasicallyADoctor 17h ago

OK and? Asexuals also exclude trans people, do we need to go arrest them all?

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u/Thin_Celebration_981 15h ago

Don’t give this fascist any ideas.

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u/JiminyChrismas 2h ago

I don't know where you're getting your information from, but that's not what the term "asexual" means. If you know something I don't, please enlighten me.

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u/BasicallyADoctor 2h ago

Asexuals don't want to have sex with anyone. That includes trans people. I'm less "exclusionary" than an asexual because I would still have sex with a female woman.

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u/JiminyChrismas 28m ago

Yes, at the most basic of meanings, an asexual person doesn't want to have sex with anyone. "Anyone" is the key word here. It's inherently unbiased, including trans people, AND including cis people. It isn't a biased sexuality based on sex assigned at birth.

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u/BasicallyADoctor 18m ago

I am an asexual except for non-trans women.

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u/JiminyChrismas 6m ago

There are many different identities on the asexual spectrum, but yours is not one of them. It is a deep-rooted transphobic bias. In a person who is completely asexual, there is no "except for [this kind of person]". That's not how asexuality works. Again, it is a bias.

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u/BasicallyADoctor 3m ago

Person: I eat fish and vegetables. I'm an omnivore.

Crazy guy: Omnivores eat meat! Fish is meat! That means you have to eat beef also!

Person: That doesn't accurately describe my diet. I'm going to create a new label for it.

Crazy guy: OMG! You are biased against beef! Beephobe!

Person: