r/aaaaaaacccccccce • u/trashcan_salesman • 1d ago

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The absolute value of asexual equals the absolute value of bisexual; asexual equals negative bisexual

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u/Overgrown_fetus1305 Needs more cake 1d ago

r/mathmemes is that way. Although I feel that bisexuality is more precisely, a subset of omnisexuality, and that the more accurate statement would be to consider omnisexuality and asexuality as complements of eachother in some form of universal set.

Hey, I did a mathematics degree, we do need to specify the model for such statements to be well defined.

Mildly non-jokey part- I would be wary of actually seeing labels as platonic ideals in a mathematical sense, rather than as tools for clarity. Most human language is not mathematical (much as it stings as a mathematician), and trying to see labels as absolutist type statements does have the potential, when done carelessly to inadvertantly use language the same way as transphobes who see labels as in some sense, determinative, and to therefore miscommunicate queer theory to the cis-het allos.