• Jankatarch@lemmy.world
    23·
    3 days ago

    More importantly does that mean people can be ordered by that and can we construct a binary search tree to find anyone with a specific value of gay within O(log_2(n)) time?

    • BlackRoseAmongThorns@slrpnk.net
      9·
      3 days 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 😒

      • mathemachristian [he/him]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        2·
        3 days ago

        There is at least a time component to consider, as you might feel gayer some days than others. It likely also depends on your 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 the even less gay.

        • BlackRoseAmongThorns@slrpnk.net
          2·
          3 days ago

          Yes, but also, how do we consider aro/ace people, or people who are one but not the other, or gender non-conforming people, or people, or people who are a mix, this is an N-dimensional problem

  • yermaw@sh.itjust.works
    76·
    4 days 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.

  • novibe@lemmy.mlEnglish
    191·
    4 days 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 straightest person.

  • Balinares@pawb.socialEnglish
    351·
    4 days 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
      9·
      4 days 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.

  • Droggelbecher@lemmy.world
    173·
    4 days 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 *than any two specific sexes or genders could ever be.

    • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world
      102·
      4 days 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 put up a fight about it. 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, autism, 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.worldEnglish
        3·
        4 days 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)