Pots and pans
You have got to be kidding.
This is an MP! Not your neighbor’s 12-year-old, but an actual LibDem Member of Parliament.
Does she think most people love others because of their gender, or even their sex? Because if so she has to think most people love roughly half the people they encounter daily, half the people they’ve ever met, half the people shopping at Waitrose when she shops there, half the people on the bus, half the people walking down the street, half the people in the census.
Sex is generally (though far from always) a basic starting point for sexual and romantic love, kind of the way species is, but that’s all it is. Personality and “vibe” (and other intangibles) matter more for everyone. It’s like…”Do you want to go see a play?” “If it’s in a theater, yes.” That’s not how that works. What’s the play, who’s in it, who directed it, what do the reviews say?
Pansexual visibility day ffs. Get over yourself.
Interesting that she uses the term “I define as” (I’m not sure I’ve ever heard that used intransitively), rather than the all-sacred “I identify as” (which has been being used intransitively with ever increasing frequency over the past decade).
I tend to consider pan sexual as akin to those who claim to be colour blind with regard to race. “Oh, you mean Xian is Chinese? I hadn’t noticed!” Yeah, ok, we know you’re better than the rest of us. Now can we get on with the meeting.
In practice, people claiming pan are actually bisexual, homosexual, or heterosexual. The fact that the other person may have a gender identity that differs from their own sex doesn’t actually change anything.
I do however agree that love is love. As long as the person you’re loving is giving free consent* I don’t care who loves who.
Children, the incapacitated or incapable, the coerced or forced, and animals cannot give consent.
From Julie Bindel
https://twitter.com/bindelj/status/1529166761731534848?s=20&t=pOk_3d83LCZtT4u8fSLqYw
That Julie Bindel tweet is amusing, thank you Rev.
I thought that “I’ll Bonk Anything” Day used to be called “Get That Damned Dog Castrated” Day.
Rob @2,
A common line that pan- or bisexual people like to utter is “oh, well, I’m attracted to people, not genitals.”
Oh, wow! Because the rest of us don’t care about people at all. We just see a vagina or a penis and fall in love immediately. You are so much more enlightened!
My daughter is bisexual. She once told me that she had come out as pansexual to her Discord group, and I asked her what the difference is between pan and bi. I meant the question as a way for her to review what the social influence was for her to make that declaration.
She is subject to social influences and that manifests in various ways, as she learns about certain neural issues she claims them. For one example she referred to aphasia, but she has not said anything since. So. Pansexuality turned out to be rather popular in her discord group and she wanted to belong. She was hurt that I didn’t affirm.her, but now she seems to accept the reasons I am skeptical.
I didn’t affirm.her, but I didn’t try to destroy her as transactivists claim that parents do when encountering a gender child.
Pansexual = bisexual with no standards.
Or as Douglas Adams might have put it: “attracted to men, women, and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri”. The truth is if you’re not living in a science-fiction universe your not pansexual, you’re just boring old bi.
(Or you need to be kept away from the dolphins.)