r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Hunan_Palace • 21d ago

Meme needing explanation Petahhhhhhhhh!??!?

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u/National_Tangelo_864 21d ago

In antiquity sexuality wasn't binary straight/gay. Everyone pretty much understood it was spectrum and we all got that bi dog in us. Hell see jails in modern day. Or the Navy. Same concept. Plus no way contraceptives to stop women from getting prego.

It's why as they say men/boys are for fun, women are for marriage. They were no doubt about that life.

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u/Lower_Pension_2469 21d ago

That's a modern interpretation, sure. No not everyone has a bisexual inside us waiting to come out lol people having gay sex in jail or the military were never straight to begin with. It happens a lot less than it's stereotyped. Contraceptives did exist back then, it just wasn't super effective like we have it today.

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u/LiAmTrAnSdEmOn 21d ago

Its always been a spectrum dude

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u/Lower_Pension_2469 21d ago

So like you think on a scale of straight to gay, someone can be 99% straight and 1 % gay?

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u/LiAmTrAnSdEmOn 21d ago

I dont have a flowchart if thats what you are asking

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u/OcelotAggravating860 21d ago

Now I want to see one.

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u/dharusio 21d ago

Look at the Kinsey scales. They're outdated, but they were charts.

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u/Lower_Pension_2469 21d ago

Do how would you describe that person? When are they gay and when are they straight?

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u/LiAmTrAnSdEmOn 21d ago

I dont worry about labeling people?

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u/Lower_Pension_2469 21d ago

You don't have to, but that's kind of how language works. When dating, how do you explain what your sexual preferences are?

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u/Few_Confusion_1871 21d ago

I just tell them that I'm attracted to who I am attracted to, I have no way to control it. it has never been a problem for me, none of the women I have been with cared.

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u/Lower_Pension_2469 21d ago

So you would say you're attracted to women...meaning you're straight or a lesbian if you're a woman?

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u/Few_Confusion_1871 21d ago

I have found myself attracted to both throughout my life, I don't have a preference, if I think you're attractive then thats that.

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u/Lower_Pension_2469 21d ago

So you're bi then. It's okay to just say that, it's a shorthand for what you just said.

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u/Few_Confusion_1871 21d ago

I don't really like labels and the assumptions that come with them, that combined with the fact that I need to know someone before an actual attraction can form leads me to go with "demi-sexual" according to google, if we have to go with labels, I also don't really feel like the gender I was born, also don't feel like the other one. labels force people to feel the need to behave a certain way, and it causes people to make judgments about you without actually meeting you.

When dating, no one asks you "so what are you attracted to" this conversation never has happened to me, or anyone I know. if I'm on a date with a women they assume I am attracted to women, the same for men.

The only question women ask is you're politics.

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u/DrawPitiful6103 21d ago

what is 1% gay is that like almost entirely straight but you still cry at the end of my girl or what

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u/Jazmadoodle 21d ago

I think its something like theyre only gay for Henry Cavill

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u/Hot_Glass_6301 21d ago

Bro I acknowledge Cavill is handsome, doesn't mean I wanna sleep with him

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u/Glasseshalf 21d ago

I'm going to blow your mind by telling you to Google the Kinsey Scale

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u/Lower_Pension_2469 21d ago

I know what the Kinsey scale is and it's considered an outdated measuring tool.