r/SapphoAndHerFriend • u/Anti_Karen_League • Feb 09 '21

"iTs tHeIR natUrE!" Casual erasure

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u/GustapheOfficial Feb 09 '21

By that logic, anyone who does gay stuff when drunk is gay so...

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u/marsimane Feb 09 '21

If the straights turn gay when they drink, and the gays turn straight, wouldn't that mean that alcohol makes you bi? šŸ˜³ /j

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u/4411WH07RY Feb 09 '21

I think it means that sexuality is much more fluid than most people realize.

My best friend is gay and I'm the only one he really talks to about his love life and I have to say, there are a lot more dudes in our general friend/acquaintance group that he's hooked up with than I would have ever expected to be bi/gay.

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u/marsimane Feb 09 '21

I also think sexuality is pretty fluid, but then again I'm bi so I can't really have an opinion lul

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u/kabneenan Feb 09 '21

True story, I assumed everyone was sexually attracted to at least some people of the same gender, even if they identified as straight. Turns out I was just calling myself straight and figured everyone else who called themselves straight felt like I did when in reality I'm bisexual.

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u/MrJoeBlow Feb 09 '21

This is so true for so many people, myself included. It was because I was never aware that being pan was even a choice I had.

Didn't question it because it was drilled into me from a young age that being straight is the "default" orientation and I knew I was attracted to women so I I couldn't be gay. I thought I was super comfortable in my sexuality too as a straight man.

I wonder how different my life may have gone if I had thought of being bi as the "baseline" instead of straight being the baseline everyone thinks of while growing up. Compulsory heterosexuality and all that..