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Damn, so that's what it feels like to be left-handed...
Kinda yeah.
Not really. At all.
You sound like you're left handed
Not having to worry about gender/sexuality (except asexuality I guess) in your dating pool and still failing
Not all asexuals are sex repulsed, it just means not being sexually attracted to others either all the time or some of the time (unless preconditions are met in the case of demisexuals or grey-asexuals). Us ace-spec people can and do have sex if we aren't always repulsed, just not always for attraction reasons.
Hope this makes sense and helps!
can’t just go and tell me I need to relearn words again!
/s thanks for the info!! Though it makes me sort of think that anyone who isn’t asexual are essentially all “sluts” by this definition (sexually attracted to everyone around them above some personally maintained arbitrary threshold of determining attractiveness??) but I will continue to try and care both more and less about the specificities of the terms and just continue to try to take pleasure in the fact that me knowing them (or trying to have learned them at least) might provide some sense of inclusion to someone down the road [that has experienced their sexual awakening in one of the myriad of different ways possible, rather than a way in which I somehow am already familiar with which in reality seems considerably unlikely for how young/antisocial I am, or have generally been, throughout my life so far], or possibly someday help me better explain my own feelings or experiences to someone else later on, who might also know about such nuances of sexual orientation, or have had similar experiences/feelings in their life but were lacking specific words for them
sexually attracted to everyone around them above some personally maintained arbitrary threshold of determining attractiveness??
From what we understand allosexuals (people who are not ace-spec) are not in fact attracted to everyone :). Maybe many people, but not all the people and not always.
However, even if they were that's not a bad thing, as long as it's consensual and respectful :)
thank you for teaching me what I was just wondering about for the second time, after coming to the crisp realization that all I needed was the alternative category(-ies) which could be expected to then also exist other than the asexual branch of methodology/pathology (idk if I am using words correctly here either, lolol number man no use good speak much here). I was about to venture a guess that certainly slurs were not the correct categorization, and that perhaps “sexual” was the other categorization, however I expected that that was unlikely because it also sounds strange as a noun to me
Sure, we are happy to help :)
allo-sexual sounds a bit like being attracted to curious french greetings to me lolol I think that this will help me remember the concept. I feel like people attracted to those with foreign accents might even fit such a category in some cases unless I am misunderstanding the concept completely still which seems very plausible to me also since I haven’t even looked up any info on the term yet
Allonormativity is a concept I now know to look out for. Time to add it to my growing list of normativities to dismantle, avoid, address, etc.
Glad we could help!
https://www.asexuality.org/?q=attitudes.html this array of possible dispositions (in the Combinations of Attitudes section of that page) towards the general ideas of inclusion/openness also seems like a somewhat useful way of considering more possible manifestations of varying attitudes towards such matters
Oh yes, absolutely. We were aware of AVEN since we are ace-spec but not this page specifically. Thanks so much for sharing!
So snails can mate with any sex?
Snail sexes are clockwise, counterclockwise, and Jeremy
I have the urge to print, frame and hang this comment on the wall.
Do a cross-stitch!
Most terrestrial snails are hermaphrodites, so it's more like they can only mate with their own sex. But it's a bit more complicated than that; they typically produce sperm earlier than they produce egg cells, to discourage self-fertilisation, so you could argue they start male and end female.
Careful, if the Republicans get wind of this they'll start calling snails a woke, radical trans plot.
Youth to inject random new genes for testing and age to work with what’s tried and true …. Huh.
Depends on the type of snail, there are male, female, hermaphroditic and parthenogenetic types. Since they wrote "his reproductive organs", Jeremy is probably a hermaphroditic snail.
What does this mean?
Snail sex is weird and complicated, at least compared to what humans have.
they are hermaphrodites, so they mate with any other snail of the same species, and the same coiled shell. they usually dont have uni-sex individuals. flatworms, annelids are hermaphrodites as well. tapeworms are a type of flatworm that self-fertilizes in thier proglottid segments.
Land snails are hermaphroditic
Air snails are hard to study.
"Oh are they?! Poor air snail scientists!"
- plasma snail scientist
Also Jeremy is an asshole because he eats all the cookies, and that makes everyone hate him.
Don't be like Jeremy.
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this does cause speciation when they cant mate with a differently coiled snail, down the line.
I'd say "this could cause speciation". This mutation's rarity makes for an astronomically slim chance of it occuring naturally if enough sinistral (lefty) snails meet and create a sustaining population (and also not die out through inbreeding). I don't think there is a case of a pair of chirally opposite species. Maybe this once happened with Amphidromus inversus but if that's the case, the two species have mutated since to be able to successfully mate both homo- and heterochirally. Now, a balanced population exists and hetero mating is more common.
However, as humans come into the picture and can find mirrored snails and purposefully put them together, and breed them in safety into a large population (collecting newly found mutants worldwide and adding them into the gene pool to avoid inbreeding), speciation can indeed happen. The resulting mirrored snail can fulfil the same environmental niches as the original species while having an almost completely separate gene pool (only the mirror mutants of each species can cross-breed - and if my above theory is correct, the advantages of tapping into a new gene pool may have helped dextral/sinistral then-subspecies of Amphidromus inversus eventually acquire unique breedability).
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