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Yet Another Label to Add to the Ever Increasing List of Sexual Orientations

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  • 20-09-2019 10:37pm
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    huddledDuke12
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    I saw this article in the past week about Mark Ronson identifying as Sapiosexual! :rolleyes:

    Mark Ronson Courageously Comes Out of the Closet as … Sapiosexual

    Don't get me wrong. He is an amazing musician and seems like good craic.

    However, I can't be the only one who thinks that we are scraping the bottom of the barrel.

    Whatever about LGBTQ, we now have people identifying as different animals, non-binary and gender fluid to name a few.

    At what point do we draw the line between genuine sexual orientation and dare I say, mental illness?

    Seriously, there are times when I wonder if people are inventing these words as a means of seeking attention.


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    Wayne Jarvis
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    Called it.

    Guy Person wrote: »
    Ah yes. After the women cycling thread comes the traveller bashing one. What's next, trans people or immigrants?


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    [Deleted User]
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    huddledDuke12 wrote: »
    I saw this article in the past week about Mark Ronson identifying as Sapiosexual! :rolleyes:

    Mark Ronson Courageously Comes Out of the Closet as … Sapiosexual

    Don't get me wrong. He is an amazing musician and seems like good craic.

    However, I can't be the only one who thinks that we are scraping the bottom of the barrel.

    Whatever about LGBTQ, we now have people identifying as different animals, non-binary and gender fluid to name a few.

    At what point do we draw the line between genuine sexual orientation and dare I say, mental illness?

    Seriously, there are times when I wonder if people are inventing these words as a means of seeking attention.

    It's clearly a joke.

    In fact it reads to me like Ronson is pulling the leg of the trend towards ever-more diverse ways of labelling oneself, ie grumbling about the same reductive dialogue as you are.


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    Oink
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    huddledDuke12 wrote: »

    ... :rolleyes: ....

    ....scraping the bottom of the barrel...

    ...animals...

    ...mental illness...

    ...seeking attention...

    Yikes.


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    Wayne Jarvis
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    A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »
    It's clearly a joke.

    In fact it reads to me like Ronson is pulling the leg of the trend towards ever-more diverse ways of labelling oneself, ie grumbling about the same reductive dialogue as you are.
    I'm referring to the predictability of a thread like this appearing on the same day as the other 2. This thread will be a shítshow like the others.


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    Silentcorner
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    It's rampant narcissism....I'm sexually attracted to intellect...because I am an intellect!

    He's into men...he's probably been sucked into a world of excess where anything goes and everyone around him is behaving the exact same way and he is trying to sell it to himself!


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    [Deleted User]
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    Guy Person wrote: »
    I'm referring to the predictability of a thread like this appearing on the same day as the other 2. This thread will be a shítshow like the others.

    Oh, no, I just quoted the wrong post. Apologies, had meant to quote the OP. Corrected it now.


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    Wayne Jarvis
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    Silentcorner wrote: »
    It's rampant narcissism....I'm sexually attracted to intellect...because I am an intellect!

    He's into men...he's probably been sucked into a world of excess where anything goes and everyone around him is behaving the exact same way and he is trying to sell it to himself!
    Good for him!


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    RWCNT
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    **** on dating websites have been saying Sapiosexual for years.

    Always read it as essentially a way of showing off that you think you're super smart and wouldn't consider dating anyone you perceive to be beneath yourself in that regard. Usually a hefty dose of the Dunning Kruger with these types.

    This has nothing to do with non binary or anything OP was going on about towards the end there. As someone quite involved in activist circles, I don't think you'll see them added to the LGBTQ acronym any time soon.


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    cherryghost
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    If you know how Mark Ronson deals with media in the slightest, it's standard Ronson sattire


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    Quantum Erasure
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    I'm sapiosexual, I see a smart woman, i want to **** her brains out


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    20Wheel
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    RWCNT wrote: »
    **** on dating websites have been saying Sapiosexual for years.

    Always read it as essentially a way of showing off that you think you're super smart and wouldn't consider dating anyone you perceive to be beneath yourself in that regard. Usually a hefty dose of the Dunning Kruger with these types.

    This has nothing to do with non binary or anything OP was going on about towards the end there. As someone quite involved in activist circles, I don't think you'll see them added to the LGBTQ acronym any time soon.

    i honestly thought it was to do with trees.

    Putin is a dictator. Putin should face justice at the Hague. All good Russians should work to depose Putin. Russias war in Ukraine is illegal and morally wrong.



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    Ten of Swords
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    It is not a new concept, it's been used on the internet since the early 2000s

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    Yer Da sells Avon
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    huddledDuke12 wrote: »
    Seriously, there are times when I wonder if people are inventing these words as a means of seeking attention.

    If only people who disapprove would stop giving them attention.
    Ten of Swords wrote: »
    It is not a new concept, it's been used on the internet since the early 2000s

    Absolute melts on OkCupid have been calling themselves 'sapiosexual' for years.


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    Ten of Swords
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    The OK Cupid thing is 5/6 years old max, but they did not come up with the term. It's been around since at least 2002 in blogs and chatrooms

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    [Deleted User]
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    It's up there with people telling you they're members of Mensa or how well read they are and how all their friends think they're the most intelligent person they've ever met. At least it warns people in advance what you're about and that's a good thing.


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    Quantum Erasure
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    I'd like to be sapiosexual, but I prefer someone on my own level...


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    Rjd2
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    RWCNT wrote: »
    **** on dating websites have been saying Sapiosexual for years.

    Always read it as essentially a way of showing off that you think you're super smart and wouldn't consider dating anyone you perceive to be beneath yourself in that regard. Usually a hefty dose of the Dunning Kruger with these types.

    This has nothing to do with non binary or anything OP was going on about towards the end there. As someone quite involved in activist circles, I don't think you'll see them added to the LGBTQ acronym any time soon.

    Yeah I'd hope people don't try and lump this with the incredibly tedious debates about pronouns and more complex sexual choices.

    This is the type of thing that someone with serious arrogance rather than someone struggling with their identity believes

    "unlike you stupid plebs who shag anything with a pulse, I only share my time with mortals who have the same high intellect that I have"

    Shockingly enough a quick google search of Mark Ronsons girlfriends on google (its a friday night) and all are stunners who look under 40.

    Mark would obviously not do a one night stand as you would not have time to grill the lady on how she would solve the Israel/Palestine issue before the crude you know what afterwards.


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    dd973
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    Silentcorner wrote: »
    It's rampant narcissism....I'm sexually attracted to intellect...because I am an intellect!

    He's into men...he's probably been sucked into a world of excess where anything goes and everyone around him is behaving the exact same way and he is trying to sell it to himself!

    Know him personally do you?... :rolleyes:


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    Silentcorner
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    dd973 wrote: »
    Know him personally do you?... :rolleyes:

    I'm not sure if he is a him...he/she could be a them/they...who knows!


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    dd973
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    Silentcorner wrote: »
    I'm not sure if he is a him...he/she could be a them/they...who knows!

    It's a bit of a weird thing but if somebody is rumoured to be gay then people for some reason, are desperate for it to be true, it's almost like they're praying for it to be the case.

    Paradoxically how many people do you meet in life who are? Not that many offset against people who aren't, of course in the regular run of things you don't meet or see people and think 'Oh, that persons straight' you just take it for granted.


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    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
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    Candie wrote: »
    It's up there with people telling you they're members of Mensa or how well read they are and how all their friends think they're the most intelligent person they've ever met. At least it warns people in advance what you're about and that's a good thing.

    Mensa seems to exist solely for members to tell people that they are in Mensa. :D I know a couple of bona fide genii. They’re not in Mensa. How come?


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    s7ryf3925pivug
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    I'm assexual. I'm attracted to women with nice asses. sometimes I think I might be thighsexual.


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    Zorya
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    Opposites attract. Teehee :D


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    Edgware
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    Silentcorner wrote: »
    It's rampant narcissism....I'm sexually attracted to intellect...because I am an intellect!

    He's into men...he's probably been sucked into a world of excess where anything goes and everyone around him is behaving the exact same way and he is trying to sell it to himself!
    "he's probably been sucked" Oooooh Vicar!


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    JohnnyFlash
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    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »
    Mensa seems to exist solely for members to tell people that they are in Mensa. :D I know a couple of bona fide genii. They’re not in Mensa. How come?

    Paying 80 quid a year for a couple of magazines and an annual conference never seemed particularly smart to me. I’d say a lot of Mensa members would be autistic.


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    Earthhorse
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    Ah, I always kinda liked the term as it’s just a shortcut to saying you’re attracted to brainy people.

    Doesn’t really belong with other orientations though, in my opinion.


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    Earthhorse wrote: »
    Ah, I always kinda liked the term as it’s just a shortcut to saying you’re attracted to brainy people.

    Doesn’t really belong with other orientations though, in my opinion.
    Why?

    Don't you think we're now bordering on the point of making holy sacraments of the various pronouns and orientations?

    We're almost as bad as the bible-thumping Holy Joes drawling on about Adam and Eve in a thick Lisburn accent, except it's Adam and Steve (more luck them, lovely guys). But why should sexual orientation look down on the poorer human projects from its elevated platform anyway?

    Who put it there only the popes? Maybe people will finally chill out about other people's sexual lives when we stop anointing sex as a spiritual mystery.


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    Ruraldweller56
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    Can't even have a thread about common degeneracy now without bringing religion into it.


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    Earthhorse
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    A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »
    Why?

    I just think, like many words, it’s a handy shortcut.
    Don't you think we're now bordering on the point of making holy sacraments of the various pronouns and orientations?

    Absolutely. But I don’t think that has anything to do with the word itself but rather the precious and highly politicised times we live in.


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    suicide_circus
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    bleedin sap(iosexual)


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