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by dragonwriter 4301 days ago
> Sexual orientation and sexual preference are not the same thing, though people argue where the line is.

Probably because there isn't a line. Rich and poor aren't the same thing, either, but there isn't a line between them either.

Humans like clear binary categories (to the point of trying to force things into them) but reality often doesn't oblige by being neatly structured around them.