A substantial portion of society experience romantic attraction misaligned from their sexual attraction
This isn't a post about men, or about women, or about gay people, or about straight people, because I've noticed it across every single one of these groups, and all the shades in between. I may offer some specific examples but it's about people, period.
Have you ever listened to a straight person talking about the opposite sex, and you just get the sense they don't even like them? Married men making wife jokes, men telling each other not to be simps, women acting like having a boyfriend is embarrassing now. Like yeah they want to fuck the opposite sex but they don't like the opposite sex. And it's not even just that they're looking for their "exception" and hold everyone else to an impossible standard, because the way they treat their romantic partners is awful too. You'd think they're gay the way they always take their own sex' side, but obviously they still want to have sex with the opposite sex.
I know the above isn't a very original thought and that a lot of people have commented on how gay a lot of straight men act, but the thing is it's really not only straight people, it's just more ubiquitous among the straights because straights are more ubiquitous. I have a lot of gay/bi friends, and I've noticed it with them too. Some of my bi friends may be attracted to both sexes, but it's noticeably different how they treat one sex over the other. I even know a lesbian in a lavender marriage to a man, she claims to have no attraction to men and has never slept with one, but the way she talks about women it's like they're objects to her. I feel like she married a man because she genuinely doesn't like women, she just likes fucking them. Whereas she clearly does love her husband, whom she describes as her best friend.
I think romantic and sexual attraction aren't the same thing, not only for some people, but maybe even for most people. I think there are a lot of homoromantic heterosexuals out there, a lot of heteroromantic bisexuals out there, etc.
By the way in case anyone mistakes this post as some kind of call for greater "awareness", "inclusivity", or further expansion of the ever-growing rainbow acronym, it isn't. Because most of these people are in deep denial, so would neither seek community nor benefit from it. I also don't think they're oppressed or anything, if anything they usually tend to be oppressors, because it must be awful to end up in a relationship with someone you think is romantically attracted to you, but is actually only interested in you sexually. It's just a quirk of human nature I've noticed.