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Attraction Fixation
Feb. 9th, 2021 01:54 pm[Note: this post was originally posted to Pillowfort on Jan 7, 2020.]
For my own future reference, since it comes up a fair bit: This is a post about a formulaic "if this, then that" approach to attraction as a sole determiner of orientation, as a type of identity essentialism. I'm open to suggestions on what else to call this -- attraction-centrism? attraction essentialism? -- but "attraction fixation" is the placeholder I'm going with for now.
For my own future reference, since it comes up a fair bit: This is a post about a formulaic "if this, then that" approach to attraction as a sole determiner of orientation, as a type of identity essentialism. I'm open to suggestions on what else to call this -- attraction-centrism? attraction essentialism? -- but "attraction fixation" is the placeholder I'm going with for now.
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