ukitai asked:
sometimes i wonder of other people's sexuality, and then i wonder why i'm so curious? even if it's not someone i'm interested in, i still have this curiosity about them. i kind of scold myself because if i knew they were gay or straight or this or that, it honestly wouldn't really change my opinion of them. sexuality is important to every person but aside from them individually and who they are involved with, why should it matter much? that anon just reminded me of this.
what you’ve mentioned are all good points.
i totally wonder about these things, too, and i also scold myself for being so curious…but i think a lot of wanting to know someone’s sexuality (even if you aren’t interested in them) has to do with just having some sort of personal capital/currency—like, there’s just something about being privy to such intimate/personally important things about people…?
(i can’t speak for everyone, but maybe it makes some people, maybe myself, feel safer, closer, and/or more powerful knowing these things.)
