If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them…maybe you can hire The Gay-Team.
If sexuality is a spectrum, does that mean one person is the gayest?
Submitted 3 weeks ago by irelephant@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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yermaw@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Does the big burly black man still need to be drugged to fly?
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
No need. The GayTeam takes the train. Choo chooooo!
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Phrasing
atk007@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
So entire human sexuality can be described as being between two people at each ends.
Hadriscus@jlai.lu 3 weeks ago
a kind of worldwide spitroast
Balinares@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
Only if you think someone’s position on the spectrum never changes over time. Which, judging from the microsecond moment of pause induced in “straights” by the proximity of shirtless Jason Momoa, is not how this works.
axexrx@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Whoever is gayest could change from moment to moment as individual scores fluctuate. Or maybe you have to look at it as an average of all those cumulative scores. Rich had a fleeting moment of straightness, in an otherwise 100% gay life, that puts him a hair behind Stephan, whose gayness has been unwavering since birth.
More likely though, I think whether you look at the cumulative, or second to second, its a many way tie.
TimewornTraveler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
that’s a beautiful thing. so, what moment were you all at your gayest? have you ever been THE gayest?
Balinares@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
God I sure hope so. This is the only life I’ve got.
Perspectivist@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
I think of it like beauty - there’s not much disagreement about whether someone is a 9, but a 10 is completely subjective. For someone to be breathtakingly stunning, there usually has to be something about them that most other people don’t see.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
So…like, born with TWO penis’s, and both of them are super gay?
Most people never see your two penii, or your 37 nipples.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Most people never see your two penii, or your 37 nipples.
Not with that attitude.
Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That reminds me of the guy with two dicks who did an ama on Reddit many years ago. IIRC his dicks were mostly straight but could go either way.
iamdefinitelyoverthirteen@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Not necessarily, there could just be a hard limit that multiple people hit. They’re gayness is pegged, if you will. 😏
Steve@startrek.website 3 weeks ago
Once you get to the elite ranks there will always be disagreement on how to score the parameters of ultimate gayness
entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
Much like IQ, once you’re more than 2 standard deviations from the mean, there’s no statistically meaningful way to measure additional queerness.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
And the competition is fierce!
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
More importantly does that mean people can be ordered by their gay and can we construct a binary search tree to find anyone with a specific value of gay within O(logn) time?
BlackRoseAmongThorns@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
If and only if you can define “gay” on a one dimensional axis, otherwise it would be like plotting points on an N-dimensional graph, I’m pretty sure “gay” is a multiple dimensions thing.
So sadly we wont be getting a
tree: BinaryTree<Person> = BinaryTree::new_sorted_by(order_gayest);anytime soon 😒
TomasEkeli@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
Surely your need a non-binary tree?
mathemachristian@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
There is at least a time component to consider, as you might feel gayer some days than others. It likely also depends on you company, that is, if you are around a lot of hot men who are open to the idea of gay relations but not many hot women interested in you, you might feel gayer than if it were the other way around. So by sorting the population you would skew the amount of gay in a population by grouping gay people around gayer people and not as gay people with their kind.
andallthat@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s more that each person will have a moment in their life when they are at their gayest
bountygiver@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
But that doesn’t change the fact that every moment there’ll exist someone who is the gayest, it’s just the same person may not hold that status for a very long time.
faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
Oh dang, so you’re saying I was the gayest person on earth once, but because it happened in my sleep, I never noticed? That explains those dreams.
OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah, and according to those mean kids on Xbox Live, it’s me.
ook@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
But aaalso somehow… your mama.
novibe@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Sigh… yes. We’ve already been over this guys.
Frankie Grande is the gayest person. Freddie Mercury is the most bi person. Sabrina Carpenter is the most straight person.
Bennyboybumberchums@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah, but hes the gayest in the way that kids used to say it in the 00s…
novibe@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
🤷♂️ gayest is gayest idk man
DistrictSIX@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 3 weeks ago
It’s not a competition.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
Casual Sex implies the existence of Ranked Sex.
AnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
“Everybody loves Barbados Slim; he’s the only man to ever win Olympic gold medals in both limbo and sex”
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
1v1 me
freeusething@lemmynsfw.com 3 weeks ago
My ELO is 6969
Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz 3 weeks ago
On ESPN69 The OCHO
irelephant@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Not with that attitude
Varying9125@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
its about going out there and doing your best for the love of the game
Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Yes, probably my wife.
Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m the straightest person. I don’t have a gender, and I’m attracted to all genders. ‘all’ and ‘none’ are by far more opposite each other as any two specific sexes or genders could ever be.
Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Oh snap, you’re me.
As an agendered pansexual, the wildest thing to me about the trans/cis divide is actually feeling that strongly about having a preferred gender. I simply can’t fathom caring hard enough to care. I default to “female” because I was AFAB, but if someone calls me by a different pronoun, it’s whatever to me.
Now let me be clear - just because I don’t feel gender for myself, doesn’t mean I can’t respect and support those who do feel strongly about their genders.
Bonus mini-rant
I wish I didn’t have to make an announcement pointing that out. Something changed in the past decade or so, whereby if someone simply states a non-standard experience or quality about themselves, people now assume that they must be “against” the standard experience/quality. It’s frustrating and unconductive to conversation when people assume every comment must be a prelude to an argument. There used to be an assumption that people were conversing in good faith, but lately there’s been a shift. To agree with those different from you is no longer treated as the default, and I find that very troubling.
And as a reference to this comment, this post was fueled by unmedicated ADHD and cannabis (and a bit of frustration, since I accidentally closed the window after the first time I wrote it, so I had to write it twice.)
Soggy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I think “agendered” is the best description for me as well and I share your perspective. AMAB and kinda lazy so dude stuff is the default but I can’t internalize the idea of gender dys/euphoria. (Body dysphoria makes sense to me, it seems to me like an entirely different thing than gender presentation which has a huge spectrum and varies wildly across cultures)
Bennyboybumberchums@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I feel like, if you can read this, you might be having a stroke… lol
Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Nah I’m just full of ADHD meds, nicotine and caffeine
beejboytyson@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Idk Harley owners seem to be right up there.
iamdefinitelyoverthirteen@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I was bike curious, but later decided I’d rather have a Japanese bike.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Yeah, and it’s almost certainly some Baptist prosperity gospel preacher with nineteen children.
Dogiedog64@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yes it does, and Grant O’Brien is a STRONG contender for that title.
ilinamorato@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Brennan, Lily, and Tao each have a moment during that episode where they’re reading a thing and their brains turn back on in emergency mode and they realize to their astonishment what they’re reading. I usually don’t like cringe humor, but those looks are the reason I can still watch True Facts About Grant Anthony O’Brien.
wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Grant is bi…
Dogiedog64@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
He once sucked 49 dicks in a night at a sex party.
CannedYeet@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Whenever someone breaks a barrier as “The first gay…” remember that they’re technically “the gayest…”.
ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
It does mean that, yeah.
FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Someone sucked the most dicks, so yeah.
Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If they sucked 2 cocks a day (conservative, I know) over a gay career of fifty years, that would be 36,500 cocks. Which is a very respectable number imo. But is that gayer than a guy in a committed relationship sucking the same cock 36,500 times?
Generica@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
But(t) am I the gayest for sucking the most cocks or because I’m the best?
FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yes.
bonus_crab@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Not necessarily, there probably exists multiple orderings on gayness , the question is if you can create a total ordering and if its multiple people are maximally gay, or at least if the gayest people are equally gay.
altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
That’s what Big Gay wants you to believe.
Battle_Masker@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
it’s Nathan Lane
thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
Birdcage does set a high water mark, but he had a hard time being public about it so he’s going to need to try harder
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Probably Alan Cumming. I mean.
InvisibleShoe@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I dunno. Rip Taylor set a pretty high bar
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Scientifically speaking no, just like 2 objects can have the exact same color multiple people can all be on the end of this spectrum.
pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Yes. Once base stats are at maximum, it’s all about positions, gear, and situational awareness.
CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Doesn’t this imply gayness is discrete and there is a quanta of gay?
oddlyqueer@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Whoever proposes a coherent Quantum Theory of Homosexuality is gonna win a fields medal.
wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Colours are a spectrum. That doesn’t stop two things from being the same hue/wavelength
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’ve seen sexualities you people wouldn’t believe. Drag Shows at the Fyre Festival off the shoulder of Orion’s Disco. I watched sequined gowns glitter in the dark near the Berghain Entrance. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.
Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Yes. And it sadly isnt me
arsCynic@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
pyre@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
no on multiple levels: a spectrum doesn’t mean a sliding scale, and a sliding scale doesn’t mean leaderboard.
mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
no.
One person could be the gayest, if it was a scale, not a spectrum.
Eyelessoozeguy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Does that mean light is a scale and not a spectrum?
mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
Brightness is a scale. Light (color) is a spectrum.
Gayness is a scale, and someone can be the gayest.
Gayness is a spectrum, and everyone can be different kinds of gay.
Sanctus@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yes, me
toomanypancakes@piefed.world 3 weeks ago
I could beat you in a gay-off most any day of the week
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Gay-off!
Image
…It’s a gay-off.
crumbguzzler5000@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Could you beat me off in a gay off?
the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Bullshit, it’s me.
neidu3@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Only one way to settle this: A GAY-OFF!
obsidianfoxxy7870@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Nope, it’s me and I bet you can’t prove me wrong.
MyRobotShitsBolts@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You’re all wrong. Everyone is straight on the Freddy Mercury gay scale.