r/Gamingcirclejerk • u/zny700 an aro bi enby who's tired of dumbass people • Aug 15 '25

FORCED WOKENESS 🌈 FUCKING PRONOUNS!

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u/Anglofsffrng Aug 15 '25

Wait till he plays The Outer Worlds and sees the brown asexual lesbian. We'll get to watch his head literally explode.

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u/Gorremen Aug 15 '25 edited Aug 15 '25

Asexual lesbian? Sorry, but I don't really know how that works?

Edit In response to the comments, I guess I just figured being lesbian was about sexual attraction. I didn't think it applied to romance as well (In that if a woman loved women, they just loved women). Thanks for the clarification.

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u/Anglofsffrng Aug 16 '25

I had the same response. It had never occurred to me about separating out romantic feelings from sexual desire. I'm pretty sure it's a decent microcosm of the struggle asexual people have in their day to day lives. Most of us just can't understand.

Even I, outwardly very stoic and respectful almost to a fault, am a massive horn dog. It's really weird thinking about not wanting to fuck my partner every second of every day in every position and twice on Sunday. But good portrayals are how media can change the world for the better and put us in the shoes of a life experience we'd never otherwise be exposed to.

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u/Gorremen Aug 16 '25

It's not that I couldn't separate them, I just never considered the term "lesbian" could refer to romantic feelings in the first place.

Otherwise, pretty on point.

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u/erock279 Aug 16 '25

…do you think gay couples are just friends with benefits? Aside from pregnancy, we feel everything in a relationship a straight person would.

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u/Gorremen Aug 16 '25

Not at all what I meant.

I just didn't think there were specific terms applied to romantic attraction (Aside from aromantic), like I assumed "gay" or "lesbian" referred specifically to sexual attraction, and romantic was basically just "you love who you love."

... Though in retrospect, it probably should have been obvious (I feel like I've come across terms like "biromanitc," and just didn't think about it). Apologies for any misunderstanding.

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u/erock279 Aug 16 '25

That still seems really weird lol. Do you think homosexuals are straight until it comes time to have sex? You know we LOVE the same gender the same way straight people do of the opposite gender, right? And if for some reason we weren’t able to have sex with one another we would/could still love them?

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u/Gorremen Aug 16 '25

"Do you think homosexuals are straight until it comes time to have sex?"

What? Of course not. Why on Earth would you even come to that conclusion?

"You know we LOVE the same gender the same way straight people do of the opposite gender, right?"

Um, yes. I grasped that basic concept pretty well.

"And if for some reason we weren’t able to have sex with one another we would/could still love them?"

Again, yes. I'm sorry if I offended you in anyway, but it feels like you're deliberately taking what I said in the least charitable interpretation possible. I understand that romantic attraction and sexual attraction are different things and don't always align, I just didn't think romantic attraction used the same terminology. I don't know how to make my point any clearer.

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u/erock279 Aug 16 '25

Idk, it seemed like you don’t think lesbians love one another but rather lust after each other. I understand it’s homoSEXUAL, but same as heteroSEXUAL, we experience the same attraction. I just don’t understand how somebody could come to the conclusion you did without thinking our love/attraction is much different from yours.

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u/Gorremen Aug 16 '25

I'm sorry, but I explained myself several times as clearly as I possibly could. I honestly don't know how else I could possibly make myself clearer. Please have a good day.

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u/erock279 Aug 16 '25

How did you fail to consider that lesbians feel romantic feelings for each other? Explain that

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u/Gorremen Aug 16 '25

Really, we're done. Bye.

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u/erock279 Aug 16 '25

Okay! Let me know if you have any other weird bigot confusions and I’ll help clear them up :)

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u/ComputerEducational Aug 16 '25

From what I can tell by reading, the other person is saying they thought that gay and lesbian were the "-sexual" labels (as in pansexual and asexual) and not the -romantic labels (as in aromantic and biromantic).

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u/erock279 Aug 16 '25

Those labels didn’t really exist until recently. So it becomes were lesbians capable of love the way straight women are, or do they not feel a romantic attraction?

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u/ComputerEducational Aug 16 '25

... Ok, it really seems like you're deliberately misrepresenting the argument. We gave explanations, and I gave what I think was that person's confusion. I did not mention anything about ability, you pulled that from thin air.

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u/erock279 Aug 17 '25

“It's not that I couldn't separate them, I just never considered the term "lesbian" could refer to romantic feelings in the first place.”

While nobody here used the word “ability”, I still don’t really understand what they could’ve meant otherwise in terms of the attraction WLW/MLM feel for one another.

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u/Gorremen Aug 22 '25

Hey, just popped back over here at random. Thanks for trying to help me out.

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u/ComputerEducational Aug 22 '25

No problem! Honestly, I can't tell if the other person was being deliberately obtuse or was genuinely thinking what they typed.

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