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[edit] NPOV
Note: This article needs to be edited for NPOV. The Anome 07:16 16 Jun 2003 (UTC)
- I agree!66.41.126.203 02:28, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
- What suggestions do you have for improvements? Just saying NPOV is useless. Tyciol 19:06, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Bigender considerations
If it is considered correct, can someone add the additional meaning that monosexuality refers to bigendered people who are attracted to a single gender, irrespective of which gender they are identifying as?
Of course, bigendered doesn't have an article either, I use the term for lack of finding a specific term for someone who identifies strongly as both male and female. Transgendered isn't a very specific tag and cross gender, genderqueer, cross-dressing and transvestite are incorrect. However, I've never found a non-subjective reference to bigenderism, so not very verifiable :(. -Unknown
- You may want to look up genderqueer for what you're describing. While I understand your problem with the others, I think genderqueer is accurate, though perhaps not very specific. Genderless, transgender (which despite main use for MtF and FtM does at its root mean 'beyond' gender or supra-gender), and you'll like this: androgynous or Androgyne, although that might be more without sex than intersex. Ah yeah, intersex works too. You probably don't want to use the word hermaphrodite as that has physical rather than mental connotations. Oh shit, just found this *scribbles in* pangender. That might apply. Maybe make up a word like... bigender. After all there are differences between bisexual and pansexual so you might make a differentiation here. On the other hand, since it's a sole individual, I'm doubting it would be the same kind of situation, so I'd just use pangender if I were you.
- Anyway, going with your original question, yes, monosexuality works for what you are describing. The main difficulty is that you can't class what you're calling as either homosexuality or heterosexuality since you don't identify with a gender. Even MtF and FtM do not have this problem as they can always class it with their assumed gender. What you may need to do is invent new terminology... such as male-attracted or female-attracted (though perhaps, nicer looking fancier words). These terms could then apply to people's sole form of monosexuality without denoting their own sex, and can also be used to describe half of both homosexuals and heterosexuals. For example, sole female-attracted would include heterosexual males and lesbian femasles, as well as those without gender ID who like only females. Tyciol 19:06, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Holy COW, BRAZEN
I was a witness to the "monosexual" flamewars of 1993-94, so this is kind of a nostalgic blast from the past for me. Were you there too?
Anyway, I've balanced out the article from my so-called "mono" perspective, but I'm not competent to respond to the extraodinary view of the transgendered in the final paragraph. I think the page should be reviewed and edited by members of the transgender community. If you can't tell, I think the article has a tiny little NPOV problem. Meanwhile, the paragraph on Kinsey makes no sense because:
- you misquote his numbers, and
- you speak as if in this paragraph "monosexual" meant "homosexual", leaving heterosexuals out of the category.
DanB DanD 00:05, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
- Dang, the article really should be including references to both. It is just probably more prominently homophobia keeping people from identifying with bisexuality since more people are hetero than homo sexual and more phobic of entering a minority. Do you know the accurate Kinsey stats? You could input them. Tyciol 19:06, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Why does this article exist?
Same sex = homosexual, opposite sex = heterosexual... Has it not always been that way? "Monosexual" is semantic nonsense. -Unknown
- No it isn't, it is a blanket term that includes both heterosexuals and homosexuals. It means people who are attracted to one sex, rather than two (such as bi). Tyciol 19:06, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Soc.* flamewars
I've removed the Google Groups link to soc.bi, but only because it was 1/ obscenely long and 2/ didn't actually point even vaguely at the mentioned flamewar. IceKarmaॐ 21:38, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
- Dang, I would have liked to read that, I'll sign up for that group on my Google Groups. Tyciol 19:06, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Mono? Or... Uni?
Unisexual is already taken up by an article on plant biology. Due to that, I think monosexual is still the best place to keep this article. Even so, I put a disambig link here. On this page, I think we should consider listing unisexual as an alternative word for it. Obivously, monosexual arose as to describe a contrary state to bisexuality. Bi being 2. But traditionally with prefixes, such as bicycle, the singular would be unicycle. Shouldn't this case mirror that and be called unisexual? Mono is attached to monogamous, which is perhaps why it is associated with this, but I've certainly never heard of the word bigamous, mainly polygamous. Perhaps I am not familiar, but I say it deserves some consideration, if only to list both. I didn't just add it because I want feedback from others before doing this. Tyciol 19:06, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Merge proposal
Shouldn't this be merged with monosexism?Arbol25 08:25, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] disambiguation needed
I think this article needs disambiguation. Monosexual is also a term which describes people who have sex with themselves. Trilobitealive 15:29, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
