POV: Every triangle is a love triangle if you really love triangles
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Hmm, you could have a Mulan situation with one of the pairings ๐ค
Where the dude is into effiminate guys, or ...?
The dude went to a drag queen show without understanding what the whole concept was
Gotcha. That accounts for one pairing. What about the other two? You'd need at least a double mulan situation in order to have a chance at an actually straight love triangle.
A = straight man who performs in drag shows, interested in B B = straight woman, interested in C C = straight man who doesn't know what a drag queen is and thinks they're women (a genderswapped Mulan situation), interested in A's drag persona
I have no idea if this is what python actually meant by "a Mulan situation" but now this feels like I'm trying to solve a sudoku or something
Huh. That'll do it. What about a triangle where each person has to decide between the other two (as in Hollywood where the girl is trying to choose between two guys, but with an actual triangle as noted in the image), but still remains straight?
Two drag queens, that each only know each other's persona, plus a straight woman?
There's some Interesting graph theory problem somewhere in here about finding out if a network of N people in M relationships must include at least one gay person.
A relationship graph which requires no gay relationships is called a bigraph (honest, I'm not making this up) or bipartite.
That follows because if you can two color the graph so that edges only connect different colors, you just assign male to one color and female to the other.
This means there's a tone of mathematical identities describing this. Wikipedia has a good introduction.
Very neat. But the fun part of this is that if you're poly/into more than one person, you are now a part of the LGBT group, not the straight one.
Note the above image, where the triangle shape requires that every person be into another person, with the tension being that if it's cishet, they have to choose only one person.
We aren't checking to see if a shape with LGBT people works, we know those do. We are checking to see if a cishet triangle is even possible.
isn't cis het an identity, therefore someone could identify as heterosexual an be in a polycule, only fucking members of the opposite sexual.
Sure buddy.
Even numbers are pretty easy to solve at least. They can be straight or lgbt.
I posit that any love shape that includes an odd number of participants requires some form of deception, or at least one LGBT person in order to be valid.
If the love triangle in question does not have the potential for a threesome, it is not a triangle.
Ouu. Spicy take (though I agree). Post it on !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world and get banned in one easy step
why would that get you banned?
Bunch of insecure men who dislike feminist takes. I got banned for posting something similar, despite being the proud owner of some bullocks.
...which instance is accidentalpolyamory on
Why is she hogging the corner?
Those two dudes wanna smooch in that corner!
Correct
If we're just talking math, triangles can be defined in terms of 3-element subsets of all 3 (A)ngles and 3 (S)ides:
SSS - unique
SAS - unique
ASS - may be unique depending on the lengths of the sides
ASA - unique
SAA - unique
AAA - infinite solutions
Maybe someone cleverer than me can figure out how that maps on to love and gender.
Those sides should be bidirectional
There's the German movie Drei by Tom Tykwer which is a perfect triangle in that sense
This is how I thought love triangles must work when I was a kid bc obviously, a triangle has 3 lines