Like romance itself, this person no matter what cannot find love as they seek it— much like a hopeless romantic, however instead of just believing in love, this one tends to give up on trying to find it for oneself and instead looks for it’s presenwe in the world around them whether it be real or of fiction.
Bob: Hey Steve!! Look over there, it’s a forbidden romantic
Steve: You mean hopeless right?
Bob: no..I mean forbidden, dude can’t find love for himself so he be looking for it in other’s
Steve: heh? well, alright then..
A phrase that has been consistently confused for “HELPLESS romantic”, but people continue to use because people who know better are so afraid to correct erroneous or nonsensical words these days. The original phrase “HELPLESS lover” means someone who CAN’THELP falling in love, e.g. they fall in love very easily. “Hopeless romantic” may have become a joke that’s a play on the originally phrase, implying that someone loves romance but it ends up badly for them. Unfortunately millennials and younger generations took “hopeless romantic” as the synonymous with HELPLESS romantic and ran with it without anyone ever correcting it.
A term used by people who are attracted to femininity, but not specifically any gender. A person could be attracted to a feminine woman, but not a masculine woman, or a feminine man, but not a masculine man, or a fem-presenting non-binary person, rather than anything otherwise.
I identify as flosexual/romantic, which means I am sexually attracted to feminine people, regardless of what gender they identify as.