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[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 months ago (3 children)

But what if I'm attracted to androgyny? I feel like a lot if people are and I don't know a word for that.

For reference I'm talking about memes like: My taste in women: Picture of LeanBeefPatty My taste in men: Picture of F1nnster

I think finnster had some coming out video, so might not be accurate anymore. But I see similar memes a lot.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm wildly attracted to both of those people and just call it Bisexuality. Classifying attraction is kinda dumb anyway, as there's no point in setting up heuristics that will have that many edge cases and exceptions.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

I also call it bi - but I'm 40, I think younger people are more fluid and open to other labels.

Being straight and being attracted to women who present less femme could just be straight-with-a-preference or -type, could be bi/pan, could be higher on the Kinsey scale, or the existing but niche terms are flixisexual (/romantic), skoliosexual, or could even be androgynesexual, or androsexual (attracted to masculine traits, regardless of birth gender)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] dejected_warp_core 6 points 6 months ago

I strongly recommend reading their (utterly fascinating) Wikipedia page. I'll just screw up the details by re-hashing it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F1NN5TER