Orientationally challenged...

[fajrdrako]

I got this from gypsylady:



Same numbers as gypsylady got... and I'm wondering why I got precisely those numbers. I'd have expected 50/50, or maybe the figures reversed. Huh.

Truth is, I don't think you can apply numbers of any sort of scale to sexual orientation. I've never thought the Kinsey scale ever meant much of anything, either.

There has to be a line about quaint categories in there somewhere - !

Comments

[cionaudha.livejournal.com]

I fail at gay. :-(

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

My impression is that most people like the sexuality they've got best. Which I suppose is a good thing for most of us.

[chatona.livejournal.com]

I'm straight like a very straight thing.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Hee - many people are. Which I always find hard to believe, but that's one of the mysterious of life, right? What makes us as we are. John Barrowman even had a TV show about it... and nobody's got the answers.

[chatona.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I don't really get it, either. I used to say that I'm bisexual, because I just honestly didn't- and still don't- care whether the person I'm attracted to is male or female. But fact is, I'm just not attracted to women, so I guess that makes me straight.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I used to say that I'm bisexual, because I just honestly didn't- and still don't- care whether the person I'm attracted to is male or female.

I'd say that honestly describes me, too.

fact is, I'm just not attracted to women, so I guess that makes me straight.

Well, I often am attracted to women, and I wouldn't know how to quantify or measure it, either way. Sometimes I'm attracted to people, and their gender is pretty much irrelevant.

[chatona.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I'm attracted to people, and their gender is pretty much irrelevant.

See, I think that's what it should be like. But for me, well, it just doesn't seem to work that way because looking back, I am, and always have been, attracted solely to men.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Nothing you can do about that. Go with instinct.

[chatona.livejournal.com]

's what I'm doing and honestly, I'm pretty damn happy, so it all works out :D

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

There, see? That's what happens!

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

I got this:
(http://kleingridonline.com/)
but I had to make up an answer for one question, as it didn't give an option for never having had sex.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I sort of had to fake a few of them too, since "does not apply" was not one of the options. Which is yet another reason for me to be skeptical of the results of this one!

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

For me, I would say it was an 'emotional orientation' grid. (And pretty accurate, as I would describe myself as emotionally bi with a stronger leaning towards women.)

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Yeah.... I can't really measure or quantify a difference, either way. Attractive people are attractive people, regardless.... And I'm not really talking here about whether they are physically attractive. I mean attractive personalities.

[rustydog.livejournal.com]

I had to sort of make up a few answers, too. Eh. It would be interesting to take that test (or one like it, as long as it was the same one) every five years for several decades. I imagine for a lot of people the results would slide around.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I imagine for a lot of people the results would slide around.

I suspect the same. Circumstances change. People change.

[sistercarrion.livejournal.com]

Eh. I tried, but the questions just sucked too hard to get a decent answer. There were no options for trans-minded folk, fluid genders and/or sexualities. I like people dammit! Not genders! It. Just is a bit of a bug bear of mine.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I tried, but the questions just sucked too hard to get a decent answer.

Yes. They were way too narrow in all their categories - and no options for 'this doesn't apply'.

There were no options for trans-minded folk, fluid genders and/or sexualities.

No - it was an either/or quiz that doesn't really apply to us who don't see gender as binary code.

I like people dammit! Not genders! It. Just is a bit of a bug bear of mine.

I agree with you absolutely. Even if you ignore all the fluidity and flexibility of gender and individual circumstance, there's an assumption here that we are attracted to a person's shape, not their personality. I'd say the personality comes first - if I love a person, I'll love their body, whatever it may be like.