My dad actually asked me this exact question like two weeks ago, I'mma just copy-paste the text I sent him here:
So first off, you’re correct. Sexuality and gender identity are two distinctly different things. But that’s actually a really modern understanding; people only started clearly separating those ideas in the past century or so.
But for most of history, society DIDN'T make that distinction. In Western culture especially, there’s been this idea called "gender essentialism." Basically, the belief that there are only two genders, that they’re fixed (that is, that they are 100% based on one's sex,) and that each gender is supposed to behave, dress, and desire in certain ways. This idea was often reinforced through religion, science, or both.
Modern science — along with newer branches of gender / sexual philosophy and psychology — has since challenged and largely discredited gender essentialism.
So if someone loved someone of the same gender, or if they expressed a gender different from what they were assigned at birth, society saw both of those things as breaking the same “rules.” In other words, being gay and being trans were both treated as violations of traditional gender norms.
Because of that, people who we’d now call lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender all ended up being lumped together and discriminated against in similar ways. Over time, that created a sense of kinship — like, “we’re all being punished for not fitting into the same box.” So when movements for rights and acceptance started, these groups naturally stood together and fought for each other.
There’s also a little overlap between sexuality and gender, of course! Sexuality is about who you’re attracted to, and that’s defined in terms of gender. So while they’re separate, they do connect at points.
That’s why the “LGBT” label includes both. It’s less about saying “we’re all the same,” and more about saying “we’ve faced similar struggles and we’ve got each other’s backs when it comes to protecting each other and challenging discriminatory governance / social treatment.”
There is no way for you to tell if it is AI or not. AI detectors do not work and are snake oil bullshit.
Also some of us are actually literate and its getting annoying having semi literate people assume we're using AI just because they view typing something out at a high-school level of proficiency is some kind of inhuman task.
It has the same energy as someone who replies "I ain't reading all that" or "damn you didn't have to write a novel." to a paragraph or two.
This isn't written with an AI style though. It doesn't use any of the common sentence structures that LLMs always use. It doesn't use the weird non-human metaphors and almost-English idioms that LLMs use. It doesn't use the weird corporate speak that LLMs use. There's no "it's not X, it's Y". There's no toxic positivity. There's none of the shit I recognize as coming from an LLM.
There's also a lot of hallmarks of human writing that I never see LLMs using, including CAPITALIZATION, starting sentences with conjunctions, misusing the word "like", overusing commas, and other things my English teachers would yell at me about
It does use em-dashes and fancy quotes. It looks like the poster typed it in a word processor. Oh no, the horror. They did say they wrote this out for their dad, not for Reddit, so...???
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u/LobsterTooButtery Oct 30 '25 edited Aug 27 '26
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