Is being attracted to feminine traits as a man really gay? Like they're deliberately trying to look as feminine as possible. Like for me personally I'll be attracted until I realize it's a guy.
No. These are males (gender) presenting as feminine (presentation). Often this presentation breaks - will they have a female voice? Attitude and personality?
And if you were attracted to them... Yes, you're attracted to a man*
But being gay or bisexual or any sexuality is a spectrum. You can be bisexual, if you choose to use that label, and attracted almost entirely to women, and then the rare man. Or be attracted to all genders but still only choose to have sex with certain genders.
I just came across someone who said they were attracted to a picture of a bear (hair man). And someone said "hey, you're not straight" and they replied: "Im only attracted to this man, here, online, and I'm not having sex with anyone. So I'd rather claim to be straight."
In this case I think sexuality is a process. Maybe they will end up accepting their attraction and acting on it, maybe they won't. And either fork in the road would lead to a great life.
Is that like the consensus among scholars on the internet? Cause I have been thinking about it the same way as that other person: I am attracted to feminine traits, so I am straight.
Not that I mind at all if I'm bi or not, I am just trying to find myself so to speak. The thing for me is that if I just think of myself as bi, it feels like the easy answer. Like using bi as an umbrella term or like that meme "that's right in goes in the square hole". Like if you don't fit anywhere else you fall back to being bi? Feels like a bit of a cop out answer to me.
But then maybe I really am bi. This thing is hard man.
There is this person I follow on social media for perfectly SFW reasons (that's a lie), and at first, I thought, "femboy hot," but then I learnt that she's a woman, and although she's still hot, it's a different kind of hot. Still following her, though.
When I see these uber cute images I just kinda imagine a real human in my mind and they come out looking my age (mid twenties). As a fan of people playing with their gender and presentation and posting pictures of it, though, the youngest looking person Ive seen is 35... So all of those 20 year olds better keep taking care of themselves.
But the features that are present are round faces, bangs in face, oversized sweater, wristbands, denim overalls, etc which all kind of allude to children's features and fashion. I'm not saying it was wrong to make this or post this, it's a cool image, I just feel no attraction to it and therefor the caption has comically failed.
If only there was some kind of like, sexuality spectrum, with a label for people who might be into the same gender, or at least people on the boundary lines, some of the time