The internet war on sex is here
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There is an interesting trend in society where gender roles and norms converge (so become more similar) alongside sex becoming more free and open.
When gender roles diverge, sex becomes more restricted and the differences between men and women are more enforced by society and communicated through culture.
Part of it is economic. In times that are very good (for the working class), usually there is enough for 1 partner (usually the woman) to stay home. When times are bad, both partners need to work, thus overlapping their spheres of living.
Peter Turchin is an academic who has written about this the last few years with data from the GFC of 2008. Interesting stuff.
The fact that this acronym keeps changing and growing underlines how absurd it is to try to classify sexuality.
I don't think there's a winning move. Let humans be human and hope that the advertisers will come around eventually.
Questioning
Undecided
Intersex
Lesbian
Trans
Bisexual
Asexual
Gay
It's not entirely encompassing either. For example, pansexual isn't listed.
I've always thought it sounded too much like "dirt bag" to use myself as a cis, hetero male and hence worry I'll be misunderstood as trying to make it sound derogative.