If sexuality is a big tangled messy ball of string then labels are like finding one loose end and tugging on it to try to free something. You may get a freed length of string for a foot or two, but after that the internal knots pull tight and the rest of the tangle is left even more tangled than it was before. But sometimes we can't resist tugging because it is so tempting to see if we can just pull a bit free.
So when I hear you describe yourself as straight I immediately grab the 'straight' string in my head and yank until it tangles on your 'but sometimes attracted to girls' and then I have to mentally backtrack and spend a long time teasing at complex knots.
I can see that in some social contexts there is a social cachet to claiming one of the letters in LGBT. That's probably a good thing because it's a mark of how far we have come.
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So when I hear you describe yourself as straight I immediately grab the 'straight' string in my head and yank until it tangles on your 'but sometimes attracted to girls' and then I have to mentally backtrack and spend a long time teasing at complex knots.
I can see that in some social contexts there is a social cachet to claiming one of the letters in LGBT. That's probably a good thing because it's a mark of how far we have come.