no.
One person could be the gayest, if it was a scale, not a spectrum.
If sexuality is a spectrum, does that mean one person is the gayest?
Submitted 7 months ago by irelephant@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
Eyelessoozeguy@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Does that mean light is a scale and not a spectrum?
mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months 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.
theywilleatthestars@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Maia Arson Crimew
atk007@lemmy.world 7 months ago
So entire human sexuality can be described as being between two people at each ends.
Hadriscus@jlai.lu 7 months ago
a kind of worldwide spitroast
Mynameisallen@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
Yes it’s Gianmarco Vincent Soresi
jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 7 months ago
It’s not a set, so you can have duplicate values. So no, probably not.
Like you have a list and the range of its values is [0 … 1]. You can have a whole lot of 1s, but none of them are the sole biggest value.
AmidFuror@fedia.io 7 months ago
But gayness would be a continuous, not a discrete, metric.
shalafi@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Conversely, someone would be the straightest. Don’t know if that’s me or I’m just a slut. Probably the latter.
Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz 7 months ago
Proving you are ultra mega hyper straight, is a pretty big indicator you’re quite gay.
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 7 months 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.
CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Doesn’t this imply gayness is discrete and there is a quanta of gay?
oddlyqueer@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
Whoever proposes a coherent Quantum Theory of Homosexuality is gonna win a fields medal.
pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
Yes. Once base stats are at maximum, it’s all about positions, gear, and situational awareness.
Battle_Masker@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
it’s Nathan Lane
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Probably Alan Cumming. I mean.
InvisibleShoe@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I dunno. Rip Taylor set a pretty high bar
thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 7 months 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
obsidianfoxxy7870@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
Yes but sense it is ever fluctuating it will be impossible to know. But personally some of the gayest people I have ever met (as a gay) are the closested gays.
Balinares@pawb.social 7 months 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.
TimewornTraveler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
that’s a beautiful thing. so, what moment were you all at your gayest? have you ever been THE gayest?
Balinares@pawb.social 7 months ago
God I sure hope so. This is the only life I’ve got.
axexrx@lemmy.world 7 months 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.
FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 7 months ago
It’s not a competition.
irelephant@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Not with that attitude
Kolanaki@pawb.social 7 months ago
Casual Sex implies the existence of Ranked Sex.
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 7 months ago
1v1 me
Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz 7 months ago
On ESPN69 The OCHO
freeusething@lemmynsfw.com 7 months ago
My ELO is 6969
AnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
“Everybody loves Barbados Slim; he’s the only man to ever win Olympic gold medals in both limbo and sex”
Varying9125@lemmy.world 7 months ago
its about going out there and doing your best for the love of the game
Perspectivist@feddit.uk 7 months 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 7 months 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.
Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 7 months 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.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Most people never see your two penii, or your 37 nipples.
Not with that attitude.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them…maybe you can hire The Gay-Team.
ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Does the big burly black man still need to be drugged to fly?
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
Phrasing
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 7 months ago
No need. The GayTeam takes the train. Choo chooooo!
Sanctus@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yes, me
obsidianfoxxy7870@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
Nope, it’s me and I bet you can’t prove me wrong.
MyRobotShitsBolts@lemmy.world 7 months ago
You’re all wrong. Everyone is straight on the Freddy Mercury gay scale.
toomanypancakes@piefed.world 7 months ago
I could beat you in a gay-off most any day of the week
crumbguzzler5000@feddit.org 7 months ago
Could you beat me off in a gay off?
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 7 months ago
the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Bullshit, it’s me.
neidu3@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Only one way to settle this: A GAY-OFF!
Steve@startrek.website 7 months 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 7 months 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 7 months ago
And the competition is fierce!