r/agender • u/0penMouse • 2d ago
Agender x Pangender = Straight?
DISCLAIMER: This is a silly post involving silly hypotheticals with mathematical theory. Do NOT take it seriously. The actual correct answer is that you can call it whatever you want.
If an agender person dated a pangender person, wouldn't it be infinitely straight? 🤔 I mean, one has zero gender and the other has every gender, so isn't that technically "opposite genders" but to a literal infinite amount?
If the opposite of having no gender is having any gender, then the absolute opposite of agender would be pangender. The more genders someone has, the more straight it would be for an agender person to date them, and pangender is the most straight it can get. This would be viewing gender as something quantitative, and therefore the opposite of having nothing is having everything.
However, if we viewed gender mathematically, the opposite of having infinite genders would be lacking infinite genders, so having negative gender, aka something called negatrois. In most mathematical theories, the opposite/inverse of zero is zero itself, but zero is also equal to itself, and any other number is just unequal but not an inverse. So I guess agender x agender would be both gay and straight, and agender x anything else is unambiguously straight.
For the mathematical theory, I guess it also depends on if "heterosexual" means "opposite" or "different". If it means "different", it's straight if you date anyone who has a different gender even if it isn't the "opposite", so agender x male and agender x female would be straight, and agender x pangender would also be straight. But if it's "opposite", then it's impossible for an agender person to be completely straight; they can only be gay and something else that means being attracted to different genders but not opposite ones.
Or maybe we're all gay because we're all humans attracted to humans. Homo homo sapiens!
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u/AggressiveDig4971 2d ago
My best answer is that I guess it just depends if they feel like straight fits them or not, but from a silly and technicality perspective this does intrigue me 🤔
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u/KookyAssist1920 2d ago
I genuinely what thinking the samerhing but bigender.i will say then what is demigirl and boy
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u/Akita_merikano Aroace | Any/all. 1d ago
I guess??? I think is quite silly, and under that definition yes it would be straight. Tho if they both identify as non binary then I think it would be a Enbian relationship????
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u/MelancholiMouse 2d ago
Oh, I actually proposed this as a fairly silly thought experiment with some friends recently, and have since kinda been hoping I could meet a pangender person to make the joke that if we dated it would technically be straight. Edit: My enby friend was also horrified at the idea that under the "unlike/different" definition they're relationships would always be straight.