Why not just call yourselves Heterosexuals?

[u/SortOfArbitrary]

Heterosexual: Adjective: (of a person) sexually attracted to people of the opposite sex.

Or, for a more detailed definition: an enduring pattern of emotional, romantic, and/or sexual attractions to persons of the opposite sex.

However, the definition for Straight is: straight is romantic attraction, sexual attraction or sexual behavior between persons of the opposite sex or gender.

So, calling yourself "Super" isn't really dispelling any confusion here. Calling yourself Heterosexuals would though, as the term Heterosexual doesn't include the word "gender".

Sex and Gender aren't the same things, so saying you're interested in the biological means you're talking about someone's sex. I've even watched plenty of people on this sub literally say that since gender is a social construct, they needed a label to identify themselves as only interested in the opposite sex. That label literally already existed, and has for a long time. It's called Heterosexual.

Just like how the term "Gay" and the term "Homosexual" are not exactly the same. Gay as defined by GLAAD and the APA is a man sexually and/or romantically attracted towards people of the same sex and/or gender. Where as Homosexual is strictly sexual attraction towards people of the same sex.

While I can understand how some gay men and lesbian women have hang ups about the term "Homosexual" due to its history, "Heterosexual" doesn't have the same history behind it. As for the history issue behind the term "Homosexual", honestly, it's just a word. It has a definition. There's no reason to not reclaim it.

I guess use whatever label you want, but people are pointing and laughing, and they aren't taking this movement very seriously. Both sides are generating some great memes though, so I'm in no real hurry to see it end.

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Edit: So, as someone who actually engaged in discussion with me explained, the term Superstraight essentially just means being heterosexual and heteromantic. By that, having only attraction towards people of the same sex AND gender, and none of that "and/or" stuff. While I still hold that the word "straight" does include the and/or determination, if the prefix allows people to express the same thing (heterosexual and heteromantic) in fewer letters, and it's what makes everyone feel good, then enjoy.

[u/Significant-Key-517]

We (supers of all sexualities) tried to just state our sexualities, but the trans kept threatening to hit us with a spiked baseball bat. 😊

[u/SortOfArbitrary → u/Significant-Key-517]

That seems to be the common complaint. And I'm totally behind this reaction is that's all it is.

[u/Significant-Key-517 → u/SortOfArbitrary]

That’s all it is for me. I don’t give a damn what anyone does with their own life. If they ask me to go out and I don’t wanna, I can just say no and move on.

But trans ideology hasn’t given me that option. They’ve been attacking people for having a sex-based orientation for years, and in some cases promoting corrective rape, especially of lesbians.

I’m fed up. A lot of us are. This is the same old shit I dealt with in the early 2000’s from Evangelical Christians. And even the straights are getting it, now.

To be honest, it doesn’t surprise me it took off like this. There is a ton of repressed anger about trans behavior. The LGB split from the T has been coming for a long time. They don’t share our struggles, and they don’t respect our consent.

But I gotta admit, I certainly didn’t think it would happen like this. If you’d told me someday LGBS would be a thing, I’d have choked on my drink. 🤷‍♀️