>>50649374It’s not flawed logic. You’re implying
Sex = sexuality.
1. Animal sexuality is not gender. Even if some Pokémon SHOULD have attract work on the same sex Pokémon that doesn’t mean gender is suddenly not about socialization over sex characteristics according to gender theory. Even if I granted your point, it’s an entirely separate issue from sex and gender.
2. The only reason to think that gay Pokémon don’t exist is because attract doesn’t work on male to male or female to female Pokémon. Attract doesn’t explicitly state its reason. It’s some fans interpretation that this is an example of heteronormativity being reenforced.
Using gender theory,
You could interpret the move “attract” to be a cis-typical move. An example of heteronormative mating rituals that LGBTQ+ People do not engaged with, as is argued again traditional Christian “marriage” and courting rituals that reinforce child bearing.
The Pokémon could be enticing breeding when it “attracts” the foe.
A counter argument would be that Pokémon who are gay shouldn’t be able to be attracted to female Pokémon, but, like with confuse ray or hypnosis it is a magical status infliction that doesn’t make physical sense and that some Pokémon are naturally immune to.
Since Pokémon with oblivious or whatever the abilities name is cannot be attracted to other Pokémon you could interpret these as the rare Pokémon that exhibit homosexual tendencies like in real life.
3. If I asked you to cite which animals specifically exhibit long term gayness specifically, you would find that it’s not so obvious and that all of these “facts” are controversial.
