It must not have existed if you didn't personally witness it in your high school years.
Anyways, saying that sexual attraction is based on traditional gender expression and not physical sex just gives more power to the social influences of gender. It's all person to person, but even if you're the type to make sure that you're personally compatible with someone before you can confirm that you're attracted to them, the diversity of what can be masculine or feminine still makes their gender identity more or less irrelevant. Also, elphenor's pointing to conformity to social gender norms as evidence of their necessity in sexual selection is blatantly circular reasoning from where I'm sitting, but I wouldn't really expect anything less from a misogynist.
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