#other-gender attraction

[beyond-mogai-pride-flags]

OSA Pride Flag

OSA: other-sex attraction (or opposite-sex attraction); the counterpart of SSA (same-sex attraction/similar-sex attraction).

SSA Pride Flag

SSA: same-sex attraction/similar-sex attraction.

SGA Pride Flag

SGA: same-gender (or similar-gender/s) attraction.

OGA Pride Flag

OGA: other-gender(s) [or opposite-gender(s)] attraction; the counterpart of SGA (same-gender attraction).

These definitions are neutral in nature and are older than the discourse surrounding them (gatekeepers still use then, so use with care).

Though "opposite" may imply a gender/sex binary, it's not always the case since many use it as the attraction to their antigender(s)/sex(es) [e.g.: enanteic]. These terms includes those who are exclusively attracted to such gender(s)/sex(es), and those who are attracted to multiple sexes/genders. Sometimes, being attracted to multigender or agender people can make the attraction blur into neither or both (mestric/diamoric is useful for that).

It should be said that "sex" isn't necessarily indicating biological sex. As sex is a biopsychosocial construct and may include social/brain sex (according to one's intrapersonal identity narrative). For example, a Wolffian dating a Müllerian Wolfadic can still consider their attraction SSA if they consider the altered/modified sex or psychosocially sexed traits in this attraction. However, another person can consider their attraction as both SGA and OSA, as they see sex and gender as distinct concepts interpersonally [unleashed from the binomial/biaxial].

Image transcripts input is appreciated. These flags can include intersex and altersex people as long as they consent individually.

#long post #pride flags #undescribed #osa #oga #ssa #sga #mod ap #ap #mogai #same-gender attraction #opposite-sex attraction #other-gender attraction #similar-sexed attraction #mga #msa #orientation #lgbpa+ #lgbp+ #lgbtqia+ #liom

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

"oh please everyone has gay thoughts sometimes" so what i'm hearing is that heteronormativity is so ingrained that a significant percentage of the population regularly experiences bisexual attraction? but dismisses it as something that all straight people experience? this is so concerning are you guys okay

#'lol women/men are so hot it's a shame i'm straight' buddy i got news for you #gimme a B! and an I! and a PHO! and a BIA!!! #look hon you can be more frequently and strongly attracted to one gender and still experience meaningful attraction to other genders #you can have a strong preference without that erasing other facets of your sexuality #a bunch of people experience bisexual attraction while still having a preference for a certain gender #and guess what! those are still bisexual experiences! #congratulations human sexuality is rich and varied and frequently evolving isn't it wonderful isn't it grand

[girlboyburger]

today i realized i could draw anything i want, so.

i drew myself a girlfriend

#cow is poly like me so i can draw infinite partners for it and i don't know why i havent capitlized on that yet #also not technically today i posted this like two days ago to my alt twtt but its sfw so i can post it here too #my art #sketch #oc: cow #furry #anthro #fursona #furry fandom #clean furry #oc #the original idea was a butch bull w a weird gender but then i realized i was attracted to her so. mine now #living out that one post thats like #a gay dude and a lesbian who are BEST friends and also dating the same person but not #each other because they are a gay dude and a lesbian but their mutual partner has a weird enough gender for it to work #its me i'm the mutual partner with a weird enough gender #aweaaeeaA #no name for the bull yet btw but i might just call her bull to match w cow lol

[bright-omens]

Two ends of the gender envy spectrum

Twink

and whatever the fuck this is

#david tennant #michael sheen #campbell bain #miles maitland #thorne jamison #peter vincent #takin over the asylum #bright young things #laws of attraction #fright night #both of them make me scream “gender” #but both are very different genders #one is like “I wanna be pretty” #and the other is like “I wanna be pretty but in the bitch way” #either way I wanna be both at the same time

[houseswife]

if the target audience of house was middle-aged cishet dudebros then why are all the promo shots of him so sexually compelling to me personally. like what feelings are these meant to evoke other than “I need to fuck that old man or so help me god”

#I’m a little tipsy rn and I think I hauv covid… #that pic of him in the vicodin bath is making me feel the same way I assume playboy mag enjoyers feel #I need that printed out above my bed #like. WHY ARE YOU LOOKING AT ME LIKE THAT!!! [jerks off and dies] #house md #greg house #gregory house #hatecrimes md #hugh laurie #the only other fictional male character I have been this viscerally attracted to (as opposed to just gender envious/admiration) #is nbc hannibal lecter #that’s two evil gay doctors. is that my niche kink or something. #I need to see a psychiatrist #or not. considering that I might nut

[lazylittledragon]

I've been loving ur mombin comics, but where is the other mom? what trans hottie is not paying her child support out here? (this is said with a lot of love and affection, im very curious abt how she got into that situation, if you have thoughts abt it <3)

ajsjhsdfh i wasn't going to answer this because it's explained in the next comic but kudos to you for being the only person to say 'who's the other mom' instead of 'WHO'S THE DAD'

also the way this is worded made me laugh for like 5 minutes thank you so much xx

#ramble #mombin™ #anon i love you we are holding hands together right now #the amount of comments that were like 'who's the DAD' and not 'who's the other parent/donor' #sometimes!! there isn't a dad!!!! #i have a really bad feeling that this comic is going to reveal some people's very nasty opinions about trans women #'but robin is a lesbian she wouldn't get pregnant by a trans woman' so you admit that you think gender+attraction is defined by genitals #this wasn't meant to be a vent i'm so sorry #but to answer your question yes there is a trans girl somewhere out there who was on like a weekend trip or something and has NO idea

[astronomical-bagel]

I gotta say, I do love a guy who prioritizes survival over anything else. Who absolutely will just leave if the current situation isn’t great. Whose morals get thrown out the window the second they’re in real danger. I love that shit, keep it up losers 👍👍👍 I’m kissing all cowards on the lips rn

#Nothing more attractive than a guy who is terrified!!! #this is all gender neutral by the way I love all cowards #SHOUTOUT TO PEOPLE WITH WEAK MORALS 💞💞 #astronomically random #oh this was inspired by chilchuck but also applies to Grian and several other characters #oh btw! Being cowardly is different from being a scared anxious mess (e.g. Luigi or Mumbo) #THOSE fellas are terrified but they’ll probably stay #(out of the anxiety that people would judge them if they leave. Or yk morals or whatever idk) #But 💞COWARDS💞 are tough until they know they won’t win and then they book it #shoutout 💞 #Astro liveblogs

[marzipanandminutiae]

Stay out of the gay tag woman

I. Am gay? Posting gay content? And tagging the gay content made by a gay woman, "gay?"

...real question: do you think the term Gay is just for men?

#ask #anon #gay #gay gay gay #gay ladies who like other ladies and are gay #what a fine day to be gay because I'm a person who is attracted to the same gender as me and that's (the most widespread) definition of gay

[daybringersol]

kids these days don’t even wanna work anymore (look through every single aromantic-related entry of the LGBTQIA+ wiki until they finally find one specific word that encapsulates their entire relationship with romantic attraction)

#anyways yea now i got the kind of autism where i can look at anybody’s vaguely non-conventional experience with gender sex &/or attraction #and give them one very specific word to describe it that maybe one or two people other than me will understand #why couldnt i have the math autism instead #aromantic spectrum #aromanticism #aromanitc #aromance #aromantic #aromantism #aro

[joseigamer]

Patalliro! is fascinating to me because of stuff like this. It's unapologetically gay - even within its anime which aired during primetime hours in 1982 - in a way that many later BL manga would never be, like the ones from the early 2000s which would never dare to call their characters actual homosexuals. Patalliro has actually aged quite well in this regard, there's something comforting about how campy it is.

#i still dont really understand how they got away with this kind of thing honestly #female VAs i get that - but first m/m kiss in an anime in episode THREE????? #theres also the maraich/thomas episode where they are *Both* voiced by women....advanced yuri #patalliro #i love how bancorans gender expression is pretty much explicitly to attract only bishounen #you blushed - so you must not be a girl #etc #i also love how joyful it all is #theres never anything sad or tragic about being gay - only that bancoran is forced to kill the bishounen spies/assassins/etc #when bancoran finds out that gay sex feels good after demian; in the manga he is elated. its basically a positive thing #he awakens to his true power...lol #also notable is that while bishounen youth is glorified maraich is 18 #this means it portrays being gay as an adult as normal; not a phase relegated to nostalgic adolescent periods of time #according to the NYT japan's psychiatric body called homosexuality a mental illness until 1995 #im NOT going to say patalliro changed that or anything lmao but its just significant to me that banmara get to live their lives happily #even raise children together in the manga....??? #especially contrasting that with kaze to ki no uta and other manga of the time (no shade intended) #yaoi #<- for tagging purposes #obviously it also got away with a lot by being a gag manga. but still! #months later edit: want to say im not intending to moralize BL manga from the 2000s either. like gen. no hate on them. #as a gay person i just appreciate when characters who act gay are considered gay textually #and its kind of disheartening how gay-as-identity was treated as something incredulous in those manga a lot of the time #even the mere suggestion of attraction to men as a whole and not just the other male lead...yknow #this post is meant to praise patalliro for being unique in its approach to gay content compared to other titles #ive enjoyed plenty of 2000s yaoi titles despite their shortcomings lol #joseiposting #shoujo

[mumblesplash]

every time i’m reminded invincible exists i think wow what a good show i should browse fanart of it and every time i am shocked to discover a lot of it is horny art of omniman. no matter how much this happens it’s always a surprise. i’m not even disgusted there is no judgement in my heart my brain just cannot retain the fact that it’s possible to be attracted to that man

#mumbling #the funny part is it’s not even because he sucks #it’s because he has a moustache #i am at least on some level attracted to men and i can find them attractive with basically any other configuration of facial hair #but a moustache by itself somehow completely neutralizes any degree of hotness #and i *don’t even dislike moustaches* #they don’t bother me at all #they look genuinely great on some people #but they make some switch flip in my head #it’s as if ‘guy with a moustache’ was an entirely distinct gender i’m just simply not attracted to

[benveydraws]

i can't love you in this skin

#twittering birds never fly #saezuru tori wa habatakanai #suggestive #<- jic #interpret this as you will #there's A Lot about gender and yashiro's relationship with gender and heteronormativity especially in relation to doumeki #he asks him what type of Women he likes. they only watch m/f stuff together. “i wonder if he's gentle with women”. #the anger and disappointment when he realizes that doumeki is actually attracted to him #unless he's remembering something that happened he only fantasises about doumeki with a woman and not with himself #(same was with kageyama iirc) #except for that kiss in the elevator but that's a whole other conversation. and even then there was a woman present #he even tells kamiya that doumeki is basically straight and he's just a rare exception #yashiro's is so so desperate to push doumeki towards a “normal” life #aka not in yakuza. not with him. in a normal (straight) relationship #just. a lot of self hatred and internalized homophobia #all that being said. i think regardless of the author's intent reading yashiro as a closeted trans person is also valid #the “i could never afford myself to reflect on this and i also don't care enough about living to even bother atp” type of closet #would it contradict some of the things yashiro says? sure. but he contradicts himself all the time #am i projecting as someone who will live and die in the closet? sure #i think it's interesting that the only person who genuinely asks him about gender is ryuzaki #in the same conversation where he asks him about falling in love #and yashiro's response is basically “it wouldn't change much” and “i'm fine with what i have”. are you tho #there's a lot i can say about yashiro and aoi and yashiro and ryuzaki's girlfriend but i can't articulate it well rn so whatever #the way dumeki's lie about dating a woman affects yashiro is also interesting regardless of which interpretation you go with #which is also why i'm using post time-skip for the art. the topic keeps popping up #but yeah uh. take it as you will i just have a lot of feelings about. This #art tag

[depressedandasian]

I will never clown on Gay Astarion enjoyers for hating him being paired with women, because seeing Minthara shipped with men fills me with the same feeling of puzzlement.

#baldurs gate 3 #baldur's gate #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #baldurs gate #baldur's gate iii #baldurs gate iii #larian studios #larian #minthara baenre #minthara #astarion ancunin #astarion #like as a bisexual I respect that they're not exclusively attracted to one gender #but there's just this initial rejection of anything other than homosexuality #you know?

[thescrumptiousstuffs]

In a world where idols/actors try to portray their perfection, it’s always refreshing to see an actor who is unapologetic himself 🧡

#Khaotung is so relatable #he doesn’t care what others really think about him lol #declaring his love for sleep and gender fluidity #I also find it funny that First choose a notebook while Khaotung a pillow 😂😂😂😂 #opposite really attracts #khaotung thanawat #first kanaphan #firstkhao #my cutie pie #school rangers

[abyssalzones]

I'm probably nonbinary but I have college so idrc about that rn

#man but weird. guy but kind of off with it. #okay my real genuine thoughts are that I consider 'nonbinary' to be just as descriptive as 'trans' #so to me it probably describes my gender experience. but in the sense that if you asked me what I am I'd tell you I'm a man #but idk.... my own relationship with the term “man” feels distinct from others.... I think everyone has their own unique relationship with #gender obviously BUT. I do not think I have the same thing going on as cis men. nor would I ever want that #...kind of a gender + bisexuality situation where any attraction I feel is gay attraction. I'll be honest #in an ideal world I could transition from female to Creature actually <- HE'S SANE #lab notes

[gerardpilled]

do you ever feel super disconnected from the idea of “girlhood”?? bc i feel like so much of the current conception of girlhood and the experience of being a woman is tied to like. hyperfemininity and consumerism and this assumption that that’s what it’s like for everybody and it’s really weird 😭 idk it’s just frustrating and makes me feel like i’m doing something wrong despite being a cis woman. also totally relate to realizing you’re a lesbian way later bc there’s nearly no not-fem presenting celebrity women 😭 my lesbian awakening was abby from the last of part 2 lol. and gerard in all his fem outfits oddly enough

yes definitely!! so much of the modern "feminism movement" online revolves around blanket statements that I feel like only feminine women can relate to 😭 it's so frustrating sometimes and really makes you realize how limited people view the experiences of girlhood. that's also why i can't comprehend transphobic lesbians (besides the fact you should treat people with compassion regardless if you can personally relate to them) because hello the same system that isolated you growing up is being used to oppress these trans women!!!!!!!

#personally i don't really see myself as a cis woman #just calling myself a lesbian who is attracted to other lesbians has done wonders for the nuances of gender + sexuality for me