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by agumonkey 4505 days ago
It's always sad to witness this need to flatten things on a space of two extrema. Often it's a complex combination that can't be pinned down neither in space nor time.
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I really, really like the Genderbread Person for this reason.
Never heard of it. Pretty nice. I'd just change the 'and' in sexual orientations since people desire and feeling can target different types.

rapid picture link ps: http://i.imgur.com/t7Lfh4p.jpg

It actually oversimplifies all four dimensions, if you can even claim with any surety that there are exactly four dimensions. There are things like "third gender" [1] and there are demisexuals [2] and there are asexuals and so on.

What I like about it is that it's just slightly too big as a concept presentation (though it feels like it isn't) and mostly evokes the recognition that There Are Things You Didn't Know About.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_gender

[2] http://www.asexuality.org/wiki/index.php?title=Demisexual