To be fair, pansexuality is under the umbrella of bisexuality. What makes it more confusing is that there is no rule saying that bisexuals must only be attracted to 2 genders.
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Planchette_Phantom@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Doesn’t the name imply only two?
FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 2 months ago
No it implies once every other week
Wait
Semjeza@fedinsfw.app 2 months ago
The “bi” is for both homosexual and heterosexual relations. Not gender itself.
Okokimup@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Sure but it can be interpreted as “people who share my gender” and “people who do not share my gender.”
Planchette_Phantom@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
That’s because it’s an extremely old term; it merely refers to someone who is attracted to more than one gender.
anotherspinelessdem@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
It does, but definitive often diverge from the original over time
purplerabbit@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
A master, and an apprentice.
jerkface@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
No, every other
Banana@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
As someone who identifies as pansexual, the distinction i make is that I don’t consider gender when vetting a potential partner, it’s just not a metric that is part of that decision.
Aside from that, your description here is spot on from what I understand at least. Of course gender and sexuality is a social construct so other people may feel differently
groet@feddit.org 2 months ago
bisexual = attracted to all genders pansexual = no gender they are not attracted to
Lileath@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
The only reason I identify as bi instead of pan is because I like the bi flag more
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
But is there a rule that says a dog can’t play basketball?
akwd169@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
No
We are a go for airbud 12
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RIP Buddy we all love you
Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Bi-sexual. So attracted to both sexes. Not genders.
ILikeTraaaains@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Homo> Same Hetero > Different Bi > Attracted to both same and different
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 2 months ago
So you’re not bilingual if you know multiple languages?
Fondots@lemmy.world 2 months ago
My wife generally says that she’s bi, but if she were coming out today she’s said that she’d probably call herself pan, that just wasn’t really a common term when back when she did come out so she’s spent most of her life calling herself bi, and she just kind of identifies with that label more at this point.
To her, the term bi does kind of imply that someone is attracted only to males or females and would tend to exclude non-binary gender identities (though not necessarily trans people, being MtF or FtM does still kind of line up with a traditional gender binary, a trans man is a man and a trans woman is a woman)
Which doesn’t really describe her, she’d be cool with any identity, which to her is more pan, but again she’s just been calling herself bi for so long it just feels weird to change that, and since she’s off the market at this point it’s a little bit of a moot point anyway since she’s not trying to get in anyone’s pants but mine.
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I tend to head canon it as binarysexual and pansexual, just as a way to keep them straight (heh) when running through things in thought
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
That’s incorrect though. Bisexual means “homo- and heterosexual” as in, “those that share your gender and those that don’t”.
Which is the same as pansexual. But pansexual is a term invented by people who didn’t understand the above.
Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
I feel like placing identities into hierarchies always ends up controversial. Like non-binary is technically under transgender because transgender just means your transitioning from your assigned gender to something else; but a lot of non-binary people really don’t like being called transgender instead of non-binary.
At the end of the day, the words meanings are a subjective experience that cannot be directly observed or compared. So functionally all self-identifying terms exist flat relative to each other because there will always be contradictory definitions that you can’t rigidly settle on without ignoring significant groups of people.
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 2 months ago
…bi means 2.
plutopos@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
A bisexual is a pansexual who’s had enough of kitchen jokes
bingrazer@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Would a pansexual be a bisexual who’s had enough shopping jokes?
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
No. But of Bicycles.
manuremy@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Wait, I’m sorry but I have never heard a bisexual shopping joke. Would you please educate me?
thenextguy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Being a lover of cast iron cookware, I identify as pansexual.
Okokimup@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Ooh saucy
ftbd@feddit.org 2 months ago
Hopefully nothing acidic like tomato sauce though, doesn’t mix well with cast iron
Phantaloons@piefed.zip 2 months ago
turn over
“no, my fond is still browning”
jdr@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Pan-sub identified
I dominate all my dishwasher contents
QualifiedKitten@discuss.online 2 months ago
I just like the bisexual flag colors better.
recklessengagement@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Same. That’s literally the only reason I say bi and not pan
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 months ago
I am the opposite and prefer the magenta, blue and yellow to the magenta and dark blue.
Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Kinda same, and I’m not even bi/pan.
Fedegenerate@fedinsfw.app 2 months ago
I learned long ago whether someone told me they were pan or bi, it took absolutely zero effort on my part to accept and agree with them.
Sure you’re bi/pan, but are you a unicorn, because my fiancée and I really like you’re vibe.
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 2 months ago
As a pan/poly guy… Sup?
Fedegenerate@fedinsfw.app 2 months ago
I don’t really know how guy unicorns are targeted? Are they? I’ve only heard of the term unicorn being applied to women. But, I’m adjacent to the space at best.
Has cucking, becoming more fashionable increased couples targeting bulls the same way unicorns are? As in toxically.
I suppose it’s different, a unicorn is expected to attended to both partners equally. Whereas, a bull isn’t really.
This is both of topic, and a Wendy’s. I don’t expect an answer.
teolan@lemmy.world 2 months ago
We don’t exist just to satisfy hetero couple’s threesome fantasies.
Fedegenerate@fedinsfw.app 2 months ago
I didn’t think the /s was necessary… I thought the “we like your vibe” was cliche unicorn hunter speak. I even used the word ‘unicorn’.
Anyways I fully agree, hence how I framed it
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Wait, wait, wait, pansexual is when you have a love for wide screen photography, right?
abrake@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Stupid sexy panorama
littlewonder@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Does that mean graysexual means you’re Ansel Adams?
Gork@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
What are the columns called, the stalactite-stalagmites in this analogy.
rockSlayer@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Agender, neopronoun, and nonbinary identities
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Those are still covered under bisexual though. Technically, if you’re a woman attracted to nonbinary people, you’re heterosexual.
And this is why we invented new and better words.
Starik@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Bisexuals grow from pansexuals dripping on them.
thinkercharmercoderfarmer@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
Bi-Bi relationships.
Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Best explanation I’ve heard yet.
wewbull@feddit.uk 2 months ago
I just thought pansexuals didn’t exclude furries.
CyberTheProtogen@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
What does this even mean?
ZombieMantis@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That they thought “bisexual” excluded furries, and “pansexual” included furries.
heartSagan5@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
They don’t discriminate, like at all?
trublu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
The difference is that the pans got the better flag colors.
cmbabul@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
It was recently pointed out to me that an outfit I have been rocking for years makes it look like I’m trying to be a walking bisexual flag: pink button up over a purple tank top with blue shorts. This was by coincidence do but I love those colors so I was fully prepared to die on the hill that it was the superior flag.
But after refreshing my memory, you right the pan flag looks like three flavors of ice cream stacked atop each other
The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org 2 months ago
TIL stalactites are pan…
Quill7513@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
i’m east coast bi west coast pan, because what the words mean are different on opposite sides of the US
HoneyMustardGas@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This made my day. If Lemmy had awards I would award this post but awards are pointless. So this comment will do. I laughed so hard at this.
ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I think pansexual should be for people who would fuck an alien who has no corollary on the human gender spectrum.
Comrade_Spood@quokk.au 2 months ago
Honestly to me the difference is mostly cultural or vibes, and I just identify with bi vibes more. I feel like the flags encapsulate this difference well
Rawrosaurus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
The only way to truly begin understanding pansexual or bisexual is to be either pansexual or bisexual.
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 2 months ago
I’m biromantic; I like many different genders. But I most certainly do not like all genders. And those I do like, I do not like equally
Zannsolo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I kinda thought pansexual was more open to the whole lgbtqi+ and bi people were more just into the lgb parts of the acronym.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 months ago
bisexual flowers do exists. and then theres mononecious, and unisexual plants. plants are all kinds of “sexuality.”
vrek@programming.dev 2 months ago
Ok, i read the comments and… Now I’m regretting the cruisenart order on Amazon… That saucepan though… Damn
glitchdx@lemmy.world 2 months ago
My interpretation:
If you’re bisexual, it’s about presented gender. If you’re pansexual, it’s about equipment.
redparadise@hexbear.net 2 months ago
idk cooking sounds cooler than 2
BartyDeCanter@piefed.social 2 months ago
Bisexual - You’re over 35
Pansexual - You’re under 35
Omnisexual - You’ve spent way more time thinking about your sexuality than getting laid
Sapiosexual - You’re a straight guy trying to seem cool and intellectual
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Flexisexual - you’ll take what you can get
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Mexisexual if you like it spicy, corny, and fulfilling.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Also known as bi-greedy
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’ve been Demisexual since I first watched Striptease as a teenager.
glimse@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Huh, I’ve only ever heard women describe themselves as sapiosexual
BartyDeCanter@piefed.social 2 months ago
Updated!
jerkface@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Ditto.
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
I like to call it “millenial” vs “gen z” pan/bisexuality
Mesophar@pawb.social 2 months ago
I’m pansexual, solidly a millennial, and started using the term nearly a decade and a half ago. Which was late to the game, since the term had been around for about a decade before that.
Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.org 2 months ago
Under what does someone fall, who regularly forgets that sex exists, immune to flirting, needs external reminders/influence and effort to get in to the mood, cant wrap their head around attraction at all and completely hates the hand their dealt with?
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Autistic.
Zron@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That would be asexual
atomicorange@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Pretty sure that’s demi.
apotheotic@beehaw.org 2 months ago
Demisexual polyamorous transgender lesbian here - what queerness am I denying myself ;-;
BartyDeCanter@piefed.social 2 months ago
I’m not certain, but I wish you the best of luck in finding it. 😅
Muffi@programming.dev 2 months ago
That is the best description of sapiosexual I have ever heard
CascadianGiraffe@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m old and refused to claim a flag when they were presented.
I just tell people that “I’m independent, but occupied” or I ask them why they are so concerned about my penis, depending on the manner in which the question was asked.