[ SECRET POST #2442 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2442 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[fscom]

03. http://i.imgur.com/aqbpwb8.jpg?1?6905

[(Anonymous)]

Troll. Trolllllll. Trolling troll troll troll trolly. El trollerino, if you're not into the whole brevity thing.

[(Anonymous)]

So, basically, you are the arbiter of what other people's sexualities are? How, exactly, did you get this job?

How about we let people define their own sexuality for themselves.

[(Anonymous)]

Using any sexuality to describe a character is major backbutton for me.

[(Anonymous)]

The first two comments are butthurt specialsnowflakes. Hilarious.

[(Anonymous)]

I just don't like demisexuality. Because for one thing, it is not a sexual orientation. It would be a romantic orientation. Also I think demisexuality is just some made up orientation for people who are straight but want to be special snowflakes and feel oppressed. "OMG, you don't have sex with someone until you get to know them. Your life must be soooooooooooo hard!"

7/10

[insanenoodlyguy]

You put some effort into this. (even if your half right, I can see where pansexuality has legit applications)

[rapunzelita]

Really. REALLY.

Hey, pansexuality isn't made up!

[chardmonster]

It's a legitimate way for bisexuals to get extra praise for dating trans people!

[queerwolf]

I don't blame you for backbuttoning out of fic. There are lots of reasons I do. But as to the rest of it? Let people ID however they want to. Who cares if it sounds to you like it's made up? A random internet stranger's sexuality doesn't affect you so move on and don't worry about it.

[(Anonymous)]

I think demisexuality definitely doesn't need it's own label or to be an orientation. It seems to be made up of people who think the rest of the world just wants to immediately bone any attractive person they see.

I hate pansexuality too because while it could be a legitimate way to account for attraction to non binary people I mostly see it used as "I'm pansexual, so I like men, women, and trans people!"

[(Anonymous)]

"Demisexual" was literally invented by a livejournal RPer. SORRY FOR NOT RESPECTING YOUR IDENTITY.

[(Anonymous)]

LEARN TO SPELL.

Demisex thing real quick

[vethica]

Demisexuality, like all sexualities, refers to who you are sexually attracted to and not who you have sex with

we cool? cool

[(Anonymous)]

Demisexuals are just ordinary heterosexuals who want to be "special", decided to jump on the asexuality bandwagon, but realized that they aren't really asexual because they do feel attraction under certain circumstances. Instead of realizing that different people feel attraction in different ways and that's totally ok and has nothing to do with orientation, they made up a new bullshit fake orientation so they could pretend to be oppressed and whine about it on tumblr.

[(Anonymous)]

+1

I'll let pansexual slide, but demisexual...no.
When did this trend start, anyway? It feels very recent.

Secret 3 - Fanfiction, sexuality

[transcriptanon]

[Picture is green-blue text over a white background with an elegant blue-green border with a sort of floral and leafy theme. It appears to be handwritten too.]

If you write a fic and describe a character as "Pansexual" or "Demisexual" I stop reading.

I'm getting really sick of seeing this wherever I go. There's four main sexualities. Homo, hetero, bi, and asexuality too, I suppose. Pick one. Don't make up imaginary terms just to fell all "unique and special". Using pan or demi to describe a character just reeks of self-insert. Quit making the LGBT movement look like a techie-bopper trend.

[(Anonymous)]

lol I know you're trolling, but I agree to some extent. It is extremely common for someone to only get interested in sex with someone when they've gotten to know them first. So common, in fact, that I just cringe every time I see someone get upset when their 'coming out' to their parents as 'demisexual' is accepted without any fuss.

"But mommmmmmm, I'm a woman who is only attracted to men when I've gotten to know them better. This is super rare and special andddd super wicked difficulttttttttttttt."

Welcome to the majority of the population, please stop piggybacking on people who actually have a hard time socially with their sexuality.

[kallanda_lee]

I get pansexual as a label. I see demisexuality more as a preference than as a sexual orientation, though.

What sort of ticks me off more is when people assign sexualities to characters in very forced ways, and make a point of it..

I don't mind if you consider Sherlock to be asexual - but then just write a good story in which he's acting asexual, instead of writing a 3-page essay on his asexuality.

[(Anonymous)]

You sure do sound like a sexologist! But are you as cute as Lindsey Doe http://www.youtube.com/user/sexplanations/videos

why is pansexuality ok and demisexuality not?

[(Anonymous)]

because both of them sound kind of made-up to me. If pansexuals are "gender-blind" doesn't that make them... bisexual? Because there are two genders-- whether you are trans or not, you still identify as one gender. Unless you literally have either multiple personalities or two sets of genitals, you are a single sexed, single gendered person.

Perhaps pansexuals are people who are sexually attracted to both the male and female personalities of someone with disassociative identity disorder?

[(Anonymous)]

Demisexual always makes me think of people who are sexually attracted to Demi Moore.

[republicanism]

my icon compels me to comment on this secret!!!!

authors dumping exposition on a character's sexuality in fic usually throws me out of the story & i find it grating and horrible but i hardly think that ENDA will be thrown out of the house because of a demisexual johnlock* fanfic

* i am imagining this is common although i avoid this fandom because it is a general plague area

[al28894]

...I'm guessing you don't Homestuck then.

Also, when hasn't there been a movement where certain members of the public looked at it as a teeny-bopper phenomenon?

[(Anonymous)]

I'm of two minds on this.

1) I believe that it's every single person's right to pick whatever label they want for themselves, and absolutely not MY place to say whether that label should exist or what the requirements are to fit it. People's sexuality is purely their business and IDGAF. I mean yes, in all honesty, I sometimes roll my eyes at tumblr users with "pansexual biromantic INTJ" or whatever in their profile, because ugh special snowflake, but it's their business and harms me none, so whatever.

2) There are certain characters who are incredibly unlikely to see themselves as Sexuality X, Y, Z. For a variety of reasons: historically it wasn't a common label, historically the ideas about sexuality were totally different, culturally they're close-minded and not immersed in sexual politics and wouldn't be aware of the possibilities, etc, etc. Not impossible, but I'd need, like, a good explanation for why 19th century Sherlock Holmes referred to himself as asexual homoromantic or whatever.

(I'm also really generally adverse to labeling character or historical figures as ANYTHING. Because they don't exactly get the chance to declare themselves one thing or another, and it really should be up to them if you're going to know it with any certainty).