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Tsurayu · 2011-04-09T00:06:00+00:00

Pansexuality or Omnisexuality is the idea that person has romantic and sexual attractions to all gender identities and sexes. Sounds a bit like bisexuality, doesn't it? Yet there are two more "points" that seem to encompass pansexuality. 1. Pansexuals are gender-blind - that gender and sex are irrelevant in the attraction towards others, that personality is the key factor in a relationship 2. Pansexuals deny the concepts of only two genders, as Pansexuals are open to relationships with individuals who do not identify themselves as male or female. That sounds all well and good, particularly the first point - that I can accept. The second point though, what? How can one deny the "concept" of two genders? That's impossible. Yes, I understand that they are more specifically referring to those people with gender crisis or the transsexual community at large. But that isn't really the point. Whether you identify yourself by what is in between your legs (or the lack thereof) is irrelevant to what gender you really are. You can have an emotional state that differs, but you are a gender. Saying otherwise just seems like some run-of-the-mill political statement to me. That's always bothered me. One of the core believes of Pansexuality is based on some kind of fallacy. That, and I've seen to many people who are afraid of admitting or justify their bi-curiosity and chalk it up as some for of pansexualism. That isn't what it means! I do appreciate the concept that pansexuals believe that gender is irrelevant and that it is the personality that is loved regardless of gender, but that is hardly a political statement that justifies the existence of pansexuality from what it really is - bisexuality. I guess I just don't understand why the concept of pansexuality exists.

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Azul Skyy

13 years ago

Tsurayu wrote...

But the rest of your arguments are just your interpretation, and aren't really backing up anything, necessarily, to do with pansexualism.

Food-for-thought?

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