I wrote a long reply to this comment, but my Interner Explorer "stopped working" just as I was about to post it, and ate the whole thing.:/
Anyway... sexual orientation is fluid for me as well; I identified as a lesbian for years, but sometimes it felt like I needed a different label that simply didn't exist. "Demisexual" sounds perfect for now, but who knows about the future?... *smirk*
I've always been very feminine in real life... but I've had dreams and fantasies where I was a gay man, and I get a hell of a kick out of m/m slash.:D I am also fascinated by all sorts of people who cross boundaries, and I strongly identify with fictional characters who are seen as outsiders, for any number of reasons. For me, the "out of place" feeling didn't have anything to do with gender - it was more of a personality thing, as well as lack of cultural acceptance in a small, close-minded community (everyone around me was Catholic where I grew up, and I wasn't) - but I think it helped me become more open-minded and respectful of other "misfits" I encountered later in life. I always get a strong emotional reaction when I see someone given a cold shoulder for being "different"...
And I find it so ironic that many "primitive" cultures were far more accepting of the natural variety in human expression than our so-called "civilized" modern world... *sigh*
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Date: 2012-02-27 02:44 am (UTC)Anyway... sexual orientation is fluid for me as well; I identified as a lesbian for years, but sometimes it felt like I needed a different label that simply didn't exist. "Demisexual" sounds perfect for now, but who knows about the future?... *smirk*
I've always been very feminine in real life... but I've had dreams and fantasies where I was a gay man, and I get a hell of a kick out of m/m slash.:D I am also fascinated by all sorts of people who cross boundaries, and I strongly identify with fictional characters who are seen as outsiders, for any number of reasons. For me, the "out of place" feeling didn't have anything to do with gender - it was more of a personality thing, as well as lack of cultural acceptance in a small, close-minded community (everyone around me was Catholic where I grew up, and I wasn't) - but I think it helped me become more open-minded and respectful of other "misfits" I encountered later in life. I always get a strong emotional reaction when I see someone given a cold shoulder for being "different"...
And I find it so ironic that many "primitive" cultures were far more accepting of the natural variety in human expression than our so-called "civilized" modern world... *sigh*