NOTE: I have placed emphasis on the responses to the original post. Seriously though, where do people get off, telling others who they can identify as and who they can be attracted to *rage* I should also note that the responses (the rant) is from pronounnotfound (I think) and is not my own writing. I just placed emphasis to make it easier to read.
Snagged from Pansexual Pride Flag:
Can I just say, I HATE it when people refer to themselves as pansexual?
pronounnotfound:
Yes, you can say. Freedom of speech, blah blah blah. But just because you have the right doesnât make it right to say.
pyroblackcat:
Itâs like theyâre putting themselves up on this nonexistent pedestal. The definition of pansexual is âbeing attracted to ALL gendersâ.
Good job, you can read a dictionary and/or know basic prefixes.
NEWSFLASH: THEREâS ONLY TWO.
NEWSFLASH: Youâre wrong. Not only are you wrong, but you are not the ultimate arbiter of what is and isnât.
As in bi-. So if you donât care which of the two your mate is, you are bi-sexual.
Again, there are more than two! Itâs not a fucking âwhichâ sort of choice!
Other definitions say its the attraction to who a person really is, the attraction to their mind and not their sex.
Attraction, a word which here means, you want that person. In whatever way. If we were all intangible minds floating around, itâd be different, but weâre not. Weâre flesh and blood, male and female. You can be attracted to one of the two, both of the two, or none of the two. Thereâs no fourth option.
Attraction, a word which means here⌠attraction. Iâm just going to throw out romantic attractions here. There is a fourth option. And a fifth and a sixth and a seventh, etc. I really think, here, what is happening is that you are conflating sexual attraction and romantic attraction. You seem aware of the fact that asexual people exist (still no cookies for you), but you seem to be unaware of the fact that many asexual people still have happy, healthy relationships even though they donât experience sexual attraction to people. Why? Because they are romantically attracted to people. I wonât keep going on on this point, as I am not asexual. If any of my asexy followers want to take this part up, go for it. And, having said that, I am going to point out that people who arenât asexual also have romantic attractions. Most people do. I know a few people here and there who are bisexual, but only heteroromantic. Just. Yeah.
Also on this point, sex â gender. A vagina doesnât make you a woman. It makes you the owner of a vagina. I know some pretty fucking awesome men who are also the owners of vaginae. And and and. Sex itself isnât even binary, let alone gender. This statement that âweâre allâŚmale and femaleâ is false. Youâre erasing intersex people right there. If you donât know what intersex is, Google it. And, even in the male and female sexes, there is room for much variation.
Itâs a pet peeve of mine.
Ignorance is a pet peeve of mine.
Like, youâre pansexual. Okay, what does that mean? You like pans? When I hear the prefix pan- I think pandorama, pandemic. Everything everywhere. Pair it with -sexual and the visual I get is anything that breathes. Animals included.
Right, because pansexual people donât get this load of bullshit all the time. You arenât witty or edgy by saying this. Seriously. All right. Iâll be frank. I always have a hard time refuting this for two reasons: 1) I get really pissed off when people make this statement and 2) I end up stumbling all over my words. But run with me for a minute. Following this logic, that pan means all, period, rocks and trees and steel girders and everything, then what does bi- mean in the same context? Two of what? Like⌠are bisexual people attracted to men and⌠hooded sweatshirts? Thatâs two things. That would be bisexual by your logic, right? That little -sexual bit is the key part, here. So, please, fuck off with all the funni jokesies abt teh silleh pansexual ppls. We deal with that shit all the time. Itâs tiresome and repetitive.
I feel like itâs just another silly label people have made up to make themselves feel special in some way.
No. Just⌠no. People, in general, donât âmake up labelsâ for giggles. They make labels because they fit them better than labels that existed previously. They make labels because they have the right to define themselves. You know who doesnât have the right to define other people? You and other ignorant asses like you with opinions.
In this one post, you have managed to erase people with non-binary genders and intersex people and youâve insulted anyone with a multi-sexual orientation that isnât bi. And probably a lot of people who are bi, too, to be frank. And people with multi-romantic orientations. And people with romantic orientation, which is a lot of people. This is all a lot of people. Please, educate yourself before you go around bashing people by using antiquated ideas of sex and gender and sexual orientation.
I canât anymore. I am tired of being erased and demeaned and being unable to articulately defend myself. So here it is. A pissed off response. And you know what? I know some pansexual people who take on the label without really understanding it and then run around being all high and mighty about it. Maybe I even come off that way sometimes, I donât know. But that is not every pansexual person. Stop lumping everyone together. You donât do it with straight people, do you? You donât have one bad experience with a straight person where they are rude to you and then run around saying every straight person is rude and the straight orientation makes people rude and only rude people identify as straight, do you? No? I didnât think so. So donât do it to people with other orientations, either.
This fails, I know. If someone wants to pick it up and do a better job than I did, go for it. Seriously.
/rant

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