It reads like a luxury to watch a thread full of folks sigh heavily about having a natural inclination towards relationships that are accepted as the societal default https://twitter.com/wagatwe/status/1322215882949488640">https://twitter.com/wagatwe/s...

Folks can feel as they wish, I just think it& #39;s an awkward flex

I guess my take is that my attraction to [straight cis] men--negligible, but it& #39;s in the mix--does not bother me nearly as much as [straight cis] men& #39;s interest in me has when it& #39;s gone wrong (invasive entitlement, harassment, assault) https://twitter.com/LiveNudeJulia/status/1321844441150296065?s=20">https://twitter.com/LiveNudeJ...

A significant part of why my attraction to [straight cis] men is negligible has to do directly with my exhaustion at the ways I& #39;m expected to accommodate them on a daily basis, well before potential sexual/romantic relationships come into play

And that attraction is neither prioritized nor all that salient to my daily or my sexual/romantic life; I acknowledge it because I don& #39;t want some gold-star lesbian giving me shit because my sacred crotch-chalice has been breached by straight cis dick (thus making me a traitor)

Better to be preemptively rejected so said me-rejecters can (probably incorrectly) speculate about my sexual/affectional orientation where I can& #39;t see or hear them tbh

Don& #39;t want to end this thread sounding like I& #39;m down on lesbians generally (I reserve my dislike strictly for self-important gold-stars & trans-exclusionary folks); my *real* issue is with amatonormativity itself

Article by @belladepaulo https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/living-single/201207/should-marriage-be-abolished-minimized-or-left-alone">https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/l...