sounds like labels just aren't that useful to you
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Obviously you're a feminist /s
Labels are not currently 100% fixed, there's still some blurry edges around the newer terms, and older ones are shifting. Sometimes they shift faster than a given person can track.
With that disclaimer, it's possible that would fall under the bi or pan sexual labels. Depending on who you ask, that can be and/or instead of just or.
Bi covers it well, because it's an attraction to both men and women, and doesn't specify how they present.
You could fall into the omnisexual rather than pan or bi, as omni is generally considered to be for people that do care about gender, but without a specific preference; while pan generally indicates a lack of concern about gender at all.
However, there is also gynosexuality. Thing is it gets used in two different ways, only one of which fits your description. One usage is really close; an attraction to people that present as feminine. But, the other usage is that you're attracted to women, which includes anyone that identifies as a woman, but wouldn't include those that identify as men, while expressing traditionally feminine presentation. So there's a degree of conflict there, making it difficult to express one's sexuality with that label in discussions about attraction.
Not that picking a label really defines you or limits you. They're essentially just there to make matchmaking easier, and for general discussion.
Finsexual, from what I understand, is a newer term meant to replace gynesexual's dual meaning, in that it means that you're attracted to femininity regardless of gender identity or biological sex.
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Could be bi/pan with a preference/type, or gynesexuality/gynephilia.
Pansexual or straight but curious. Honestly just depends on what you're more comfortable with.
I was talking to my Emirati parents about this, and they said I’m just a manwhore...
That checks out.
I've heard the term "gynephilic" before. "Androphilic" would be the term used for being attracted to masculinity btw.
That said, you're free to consider yourself to be whatever sexuality you want. There are more than a few self-proclaimed straight men who are attracted to males who look pretty. Do you.
Gynosexual? I would say I fit into this category as well, but I just say I'm bi with a female preference.