"opposite"
Jan. 27th, 2021 02:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
itrytobeaccording to our current theoretical models, it is not possible for me to be in a straight relationship if the definition of "straight" includes "between opposite genders" as a necessary condition, since nonbinary genders generally don't have opposites (although this of course varies per gender).
now, i'm unwilling to discount outright the possibility that there is a gender exactly opposite to my specific gender. however, i rather suspect that, in any theoretical model that permits the existence of a gender opposite to mine, "female" and "male" are not opposite*. this means that, in order to define a relationship between a woman and a man as straight, such a model's definition of "straight" would need to be specific enough to, again, exclude my gender.
*i am skeptical about the possibility of a gender opposite to mine under any model where male and female are opposite. that said, the entire construct of "opposite" genders is dubious to be to begin with.
now, i'm unwilling to discount outright the possibility that there is a gender exactly opposite to my specific gender. however, i rather suspect that, in any theoretical model that permits the existence of a gender opposite to mine, "female" and "male" are not opposite*. this means that, in order to define a relationship between a woman and a man as straight, such a model's definition of "straight" would need to be specific enough to, again, exclude my gender.
*i am skeptical about the possibility of a gender opposite to mine under any model where male and female are opposite. that said, the entire construct of "opposite" genders is dubious to be to begin with.
