• tiramichu@sh.itjust.works
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    10 days ago

    What if I am attracted to trans girls with huge cocks, or beefcake lumberjack guys who are into chastity?

    Gender itself isn’t a neat tidy line from Male to Female that people fit on, it’s more complicated. And if gender itself is more complicated than a line, how can we use a line to model attraction to it?

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      10 days ago

      That’s why I didn’t attempt to model gender but rather attraction.

      Since gender is more complicated, you would have to reduce the dimension of someone’s “true” gender to this model, losing some information (such as the exact correlation) and projecting them onto multiple points. For example, the lumberjack guy would be projected onto two opposed points in “masculine presenting” and “feminine presenting”. If your attraction area doesn’t encompass both these points you are not attracted to him.

      Also, models are simplifications. Since I am not a sociologist, I do not need a highly complex model trying to achieve 99.9% accuracy - nor would I be able to grasp it. A simple one, achieving something like 95% accuracy is sufficient.