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- on Queer discourse rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3d ago
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on Queer discourse rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3d ago
Both pan- and omni- mean all, but pan- is Greek and omni- is Latin.
Wiktionary’s definition of pansexual and omnisexual suggests that when people distinguish them, it is that pansexual implies everyone in a gender-blind way, and omnisexual implies everyone but differently for different genders.
pansexual, adjective: someone who is attracted to all types of people regardless of gender or sex
omnisexual, adjective: being attracted to all genders (sometimes distinguished from pansexual by saying omnisexual attraction may still take account of gender or prefer particular genders)
If we were going strictly by prefixes, then it would be:
- bisexual - attracted two precisely two genders,
- multisexual - attracted to two or more genders,
- omnisexual - attracted to all genders (though possibly to varying degrees),
- pansexual - mixes Greek and Latin and therefore doesn’t count as a real word. (/joke)
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on Queer discourse rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3d ago
Per my comment, it depends who you ask.
If you ask the Oxford English Dictionary, pansexuals are a subset of bisexuals.
bisexual, adjective: sexually or romantically attracted to people of more than one sex or gender
pansexual, adjective: sexually or romantically attracted to people without regard to their sex or gender
If you ask Wiktionary, bisexuals and pansexuals are two non overlapping sets of people (though see the usage notes).
bisexual, adjective: sexually attracted to both opposite-sex and same-sex individuals
pansexual, adjective: someone who is attracted to all types of people regardless of gender or sex
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on Queer discourse rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 18 Sep 2026
There are some transphobes and/or enbyphobes who will insist that bisexual means attraction to only two genders, and we all know why they’re doing that.
Others will say that bisexual means they based on the meaning of the prefix “bi-”. But that is the etymological fallacy. The current meaning of a word is not necessarily related to its etymological origin. Words change meaning literally all the time, and we should all be nonplussed about it by now [1].
In reality, words only mean what people generally understand them to mean [2]. Most dictionaries still retain, at least implicitly, a two definition, but most LGBT+ orgs and psychological associations and whatnot tend to define it as “more than one” gender, or similar.
Similarly, pansexual is generally defined as attraction to all genders or attraction being irrelevant of gender in the vast majority of places that care to declare a definition. But there are those who use it to mean the same thing as the latter definition of bisexual because they believe bisexual to mean the former definition of bisexual.
So what is the actual difference? It probably depends where you are and who you’re talking to. Womp womp.
There’s a joke/stereotype that many people who describe themselves as bi are attracted to one specific type of guy, and literally all women.
In my practical experience, people are more likely to identify as bisexual if they tend have a preference for certain gender presentations over others, and more likely to identify as pansexual if they are (closer to being) equally horny for all. Or if they have a preference for more pastel colours.
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[1] Even I believe, in my heart, that using the word nonplussed this way is wrong.
[2] Ha! I got the linguistic prescriptivists and the logicians with that one!
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on where are you on the rule scale in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 17 Sep 2026
OMG no! I didn’t mean to make you tear emoji!😭
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on where are you on the rule scale in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 16 Sep 2026
I feel like it should be faildaughter rather than failwoman. But yeah, 7, probably.
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on let go rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 Sep 2026
I am genuinely confused as to whether you are continuing to use the confederate flag as an analogy for “New Harry Potter [YTS].mkv” or if you somehow misinterpreted my comment as a defence of confederate-flag-having, given that the following quote:
There are people who liked the confederacy before you
would quite possibly not apply to Harry Potter. I’m going to have to assume the latter is a possibility. (I don’t like Harry Potter, actually, but I was in target demographic when the first book was written, so it’s entirely possible that I could have been one of the first fans.)
The existence of the confederacy was predicated on the maintenance of chattel slavery, and the memorialisation of its flags and leaders is inextricably linked to the effort to continue to subjugation of black people in the south of the US, and has been for as long as anyone has been alive. That makes it a hate symbol, and thus the having of a confederate flag is, prima facie, sus af.
Harry Potter… isn’t that. For twenty full years Harry Potter was just upper class British wish-fulfilment slop until Rowling went off her rocker. Is it upsetting to me, a British trans woman, that HP continues to be fucking everywhere? Sure. But at the end of the day, pirating HP does less measurable harm to me than e.g. simply using twitter does, so I’m not going to end a friendship over it.
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on let go rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 Sep 2026
I don’t think this is quite the case. There is no one alive who could possibly have formed an attachment to the confederate flag before it became a bad thing, but the same is not true of HP.
I think you can continue to enjoy things you already own - if you can - so long as you do it quietly, and I think that more or less applies to piracy as well.
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on Never seen it this bad in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 18 Aug 2026
He used the slop to destroy the slop.
I find the best thing to do when anyone uses either word is just nod politely and try not to wonder too much about precisely what they meant.