Today, however, I realized that I find this 'I fall in love with the person rather than the gender' thing offensive to people like me, who are orientated one way or the other, because it sounds superior whether or not superiority is intended. It sounds like the person speaking feels that s/he is better than those of us who allegedly fall in love with genders rather than people. What do we fall in love with, then, if it's not the person? A set of genitals? When I fall in love with a woman, is it just her 'sex' I'm after? Do I have
Today, however, I realized that I find this 'I fall in love with the person rather than the gender' thing offensive to people like me, who are orientated one way or the other, because it sounds superior whether or not superiority is intended. It sounds like the person speaking feels that s/he is better than those of us who allegedly fall in love with genders rather than people. What do we fall in love with, then, if it's not the person? A set of genitals? When I fall in love with a woman, is it just her 'sex' I'm after? Do I have