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@criticallyalexandrite
Tbh I’ll just state here that my main is boxlizard. For genuine followers/mutuals of this blog. Who might want to be able to still keep up with stuff I rb on tumblr and original posts I make and such. Any people who only use this info to harass me over witheredbonnie/furryphobia’s fake callout will be hardblocked. So don’t try it. This will be my last post to this blog.
So how do you reconcile your blog with the fact that numerous actual Indian people have called you out for that ridiculous post about sari? Are you going to apologize to the community you claim to champion in your "critical gaze" of a media character, who is of a culture you have NOTHING to do with as a Black person? Do you realize you are engaging in anti Asian/Indian racism with this?
thanks for calling me out! i personally haven’t seen any indian people call me out, but if you have, please direct me to their posts so i can reblog them and educate my followers who may have been ignorant to this too. i personally apologize to every one of indians i have offended with my post and i will take it down immediately (if i can find it). i also apologize to any of the Indian followers i have that may have been offended my my post. i acknowledge that i may have said something that was potentially offensive to them and i apologize again. i have refrained from talking about issues involving other cultures since that post. however i’ve never claimed to champion the indian community (to the best of my memory). no one is obligated to forgive me either.
i wrote the post because as an african i understood what it felt like to have your culture misrepresented, and i wanted to fight for another group. i completely understand what it must’ve felt like to see someone try to overstep, and i apologize to anyone that felt hurt or offended my that post, and i will avoid talking about those topics completely. that’s why i currently only speak on black issues. again, i am more than willing to delete that post and i didn’t not intend to hurt anyone. however, i must take responsibility for my actions and i will acknowledge the fact that i am not qualified to speak on these issues, as i am a black person. again, no one is obligated to forgive me or excuse my behavior, i just wanted to explain myself and apologize.
I now I said I’m leaving the SU crit debate scene. And I mostly am. But since I saw this I also wanted to apologize. Since I remember I had backed up critically-connie in this thread through my criticalalexandrite url. I’m also sorry for enabling this at the time. I thought it was a good thing to defend Indian culture from how the crewniverse disregarded it. But I also realize now that the issue was that it was not my place to speak on that issue at all. Considering I’m just black and indigenous, but indian or culturally indian. From now on I’ll be more mindful of these kinds of topics. And to make sure I’m not sounding like an authority on a topic that doesn’t apply to my lifestyle. I know I still need to work on my tone when discussing political matters. Which is something I”m trying to work on better while taking a break from the SU crit debate. None of the people who were hurt have to forgive me either. I just want to make it clear that I regret overstepping on such a topic in a disrespectful manner even if that wasn’t my intention. Cuz in the end intentions don’t matter. It’s the impact of behaviors that does.
Tbh I’ll just state here that my main is boxlizard. For genuine followers/mutuals of this blog. Who might want to be able to still keep up with stuff I rb on tumblr and original posts I make and such. Any people who only use this info to harass me over witheredbonnie/furryphobia’s fake callout will be hardblocked. So don’t try it. This will be my last post to this blog.
I’ve decided I’m not just gonna not do anything from now on. But I’m going to greatly lower the amount of people I interact with on a personal level. And I’m going to go back to my series rewrites. I”ll just minimize who I talk to them about. But I’m still not going to use this blog anymore for callouts or discourse. That was taking a bad toll on my mental health Mainly due to some detractors’ reactions to my political boundaries/
I’m actually permanently leaving this side blog. But I’m not deleting it. I don’t want any of my hundreds of hatefollowers to take the url. But don’t expect me to post here or do much of anything from now on.
“x didn’t get bullied enough in high school” is such a heinous thing to say lmao why are we still acting like that’s an ok thing to say
Apparently this post got notes while I was asleep and then there was drama in the replies which I’m not responding to.
Anyway bullying is awful and frequently a traumatic experience, in reality bully victims are usually from marginalised groups, and being bullied does not make you a better person and its fucking weird to propose it as a solution to someone being a shitty person as an adult especially when half the time people say that they’re just talking about like…furries or other people they find weird who are generally harmless
are y’all aware that “enemies to lovers” is supposed to mean “people on opposing sides of a conflict fall in love” and not “an abuser/murderer/etc. and their personal victim fall in love”
like it’s about the star-crossed yearning, not abuse apologism
“nobody is saying completely abolish the police theyre saying defund and reform uwu”
“nobody is saying literally give the land back theyre saying it metaphorically uwu”
I really need y'all to be more aware of what you post and where you get your information, a lot of the RA sources you're reblogging from or w/e are just antisemetic nonsense. Un/welcome/ozian deadass talks about Jews running the world behind the scenes. Be critical of where you get your information from, esp information abt something as already misunderstood as RA.
Yeah, I had to unfollow the first ex JW who helped me wake up from the cult’s brainwashing for this reason. People need to understand that not all cults are satanic.
So I'm working on a fantasy series and these two lesbian witches both have magic scepters, but one's scepter has colors that match the aromantic flag while the other has colors that match the asexual flag. I did that by complete and total accident since both witches are romantically and sexually attracted to women. But should I change the colors of their scepters or just keep them the way they are?
There are ace and aro people who fall in love! Just under specifics for the individual, if I'm understanding that right. @criticallyalexandrite and @saltycharacterasks are better to ask about that.
Also both flags have really nice colors so I mean and colors have meanings depending on culture n stuff. Id say keep em, the colors are nice.
But ask those two, maybe their answers and explantions on being aro/ace might help you come with a conclusion
Yeah there can be non SAM ace women who date without being lesbians. But if you want you can also make the characters ace lesbians. Ace lesbians are just as valid as allo lesbians.
aces wanna be included for being lonely 💔
aces would like to be included in the community they belong in, instead of being mocked and harassed, actually.
i dontremember lgbt being about lonely losers
I don’t remember lgbtq+ being about hateful assholes, yet here you are.
i think being hateful builds character ❤️ but being lonely is well 😋
Unfortunately this person is being 100% serious
NICK CANNON DID NOT GET FIRED FOR HATING ON WHITE PEOPLE. HE SPEWED ANTISEMITIC RHETORIC, AND REFUSED TO APOLOGIZE.
This.
Also, Black Jewish lives matter so much.
Also also, the Spanish Inquisition came shortly after the Moors were driven out of Spain. Moorish people were black and often Islamic as well iirc. So it wasn't just the antisemitism that was codified.
This is true, Jews had much more autonomy, freedom and protection before the Inquisition, obviously, but they went hand in hand.
PLEASE BOOST!!!! THIS IS SOMEONE FROM MY COMMUNITY AND THEY REALLY NEED HELP!!!
please don’t ignore this!!! my friend is trying to leave this cult!!!!!!
if i see one more post about how young preteens and teens “can be ace” i’m going to puke. it is completely normal for teenagers not to want or to be interested in sex, and more importantly, many young gay teenagers convince themselves they don’t have any sex drive and don’t “want sex” consciously or subconsciously to deal with the burden of gay attraction and the heaps of homophobia children are exposed to and internalize.
the concept of asexuality in children only harms gay teenagers trying to come to terms with their attraction. it is incredibly damaging and the fact that people can pretend to support gay people and gay children and support this is ridiculous. you can’t have it both ways. you either support gay children or you support internalized homophobia.
Have you met a teenager recently? Seriously, I’m honestly curious. Because as a literal teenager, with a younger brother who is a preteen, I guarantee I get more interaction with pre-teens and teens than you do, and good lord sex drive and romance and crushes is all people talk about most days. That, and homework.
You realize that as you say this, you’ve hurt teenagers identifying as ace? And aro? You just told us that our orientation is TMI, 18+. Only for adults. “You’re too young to know”. “You’ll grow out of it eventually”. “I think she’s only ace because of her past relationships.” You’re especially hurting young LGBP+ aces and aros. Seriously. You can’t pretend to support LGBT+ aces and aros and pull this shit.
Yeah, it happens, okay? Gay teenagers convince themselves they don’t want sex. But that would happen whether the label were there or not, and you know it.
Also, for the last time, asexuality is not about sex drive/libido, it’s about attraction.
Let teenagers identify as they say they are, okay? Teenagers and preteens are people. Jesus fuck.
(PS: Fuck you. I’m fifteen. I’m also aroace. You said the same things to me I’ve heard from my pastor, from my conservative acquaintances, and from my parents and grandparents. You are spouting rhetoric that is used against LGBTQIANP+ kids everywhere, and you’re so blinded by your hatred of aces that you don’t notice.)
Some highlight quotes:
“no need to identify as an ace lesbian”
“if you aren’t gay or trans you’re straight”
calling me out by uhhhhh….. clicking on the discourse link i prominently display on my blog. ok
“if you aren’t gay or trans you’re straight” you really see no problems with that. Like….oh….idk….bi people????? The “B” of LGBT?????
And for the record, when you’re talking about teenagers, you have to actually talk to teenagers. Surprisingly enough, we get kind of defensive when our autonomy is taken away from us.
Bye. Also, did you refer to us as “asexies”? Ew.
Also what does trans have to do with being straight? Straight trans people exist.
^^^^^
Yea this has nothing to do with cishets. This person both wants to silence all aces by rendering asexual a useless term, invalidating the different experiences they have, and flat out says all “aces and aros aren’t lgbt” which means it has nothing to do with cishet exclusionary politics, its just flat out bigotry against an entire orientation. Don’t waste yourselves on this piece of crap.
Oh yea, and an apparent biphobe as well. Nuff said.
“rendering asexual a useless term” yeah p much. xoxo
No denial, not even for the biphobia ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ some people are just self admitted assholes
The Aphobia Masterpost
I started writing this as a comment on another post, but it got too long so fuck it, this is going to be its own post, and it’s going to be a collection of basically everything I can get my hands on about asexual oppression, history, and the shit aphobes say. Yeah, this is going to be long, heavy with links to a lot more reading, but I’ve had it up to here with the “discourse”.
Everyone who wants to is free to reblog this post and use it as a reference when arguing with aphobes. (fyi, I created the blog @asexuality-and-aphobia in the middle of this project to be a reliable source for my links.)
“Aces don’t face oppression”
Intergroup bias toward “Group X”: Evidence of prejudice, dehumanization, avoidance, and discrimination against asexuals (Link to complete study)
Prejudice against the asexual community
Battling Asexual Discrimination, Sexual Violence And ‘Corrective’ Rape
Somewhere on the A-Spectrum: Agender, aromantic and asexual people face misconceptions, aggression
Asexuality and Rape
Asexual Men and Rape
Men, masculinity, asexuality, and rape
Religion and Asexuality Overview
Religious intolerance of asexuality: x, x, x, x, x, x
Asexuality and race/racism: x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x
Do you want to?
Asexual oppression and all that
Asexuality and Victim Blaming
Why We Need Mental Healthcare Without Asexual Erasure
AAU Campus Climate Survey on Sexual Assault and Sexual Misconduct shows that “Asexual/Questioning/Not Listed” report a higher rate of sexual assault/harassment/violence than heterosexuals, regardless of gender
Asexuality was listed in the DSM as HSDD (Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder) until 2013, making it officially a mental illness that would be treated with therapy and medication. It is still in the DSM, except that you can ‘opt out’ if you self-identify as asexual, which is great except that asexuality is still so unknown that there undoubtedly many people who are asexual but don’t know that it’s “a thing”. This means that who knows how many asexuals have been sent to therapy and told they’re sick, then been “treated” for their orientation to try and force them to experience sexuality “correctly”.
In short, our orientation has been and continues to be pathologized, and asexuals have been put through corrective therapy: x, x, x, x, x
Acephobia Exists
Why Aro/Ace awareness is important to me
This is an example of acephobia.
Sure, it could’ve happened to anyone. But it happened to an asexual BECAUSE OF THEIR ASEXUALITY.
no one gets to tell me that my objectification is magically ‘less potent’ because it’s due to my asexuality.
“I WANT to make the community unsafe for you”
It’s All A Fucking Joke, Right
Posts of people describing the hardship they’ve faced for their asexuality: x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x
The blog @acephobia-is-real has so many submissions and examples of hatred, harassment, hostility, and abuse, of aces who have been raped and/or sexually assaulted in an attempt to ‘fix’ them, and made suicidal due to aphobia and/or their own perceived brokenness, that it would be pointless for me to try and link any. Just go and start reading. Try their suicide tag.
There may be dissatisfyingly little research done on asexuality, but there has been enough done to prove that they do face discrimination, no matter how hard some may find that to believe. But guess what? You, an allosexual person, do not get to say shit like “aces don’t get kicked out” or “aces don’t _____” any more than I as a white person get to say that things I don’t experience must not happen to black people either. Just because you haven’t experienced it personally or witnessed it with your own eyes doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen. You haven’t walked in an ace’s shoes, you don’t know what they deal with. Period.
Not even other aces can tell asexuals that their experiences aren’t real or aren’t valid. Different people can deal with different amounts of oppression, that doesn’t mean the lack of oppression is the default “truth”.
Nobody is trying to say that asexuals have it “as bad” or worse than gay or trans people, but we don’t HAVE to “have it worse” to be included and for our experiences to have merit without being compared to anyone else’s. Let me say that again: our experiences have merit without being compared to anyone else’s.
“We just want to protect our safe spaces”
Aphobes have:
Repeatedly misgendered and mislabeled people
Informed rape victims that their assaults didn’t happen the way they happened (which is a form of gaslighting)
Made light of their own rape apology
Compared asexuals to pedophiles
Compared asexuals to Nazis
Harassed people who wanted to be left alone
Made jokes about asexuals committing suicide
Told suicidal asexuals to “stop whining”
Admitted to recycling biphobia
Created a ‘yourfaveisaphobic’ blog
Admitted to hating the ace/aro community
Asserted that asexuality should not be taught in schools (because it “sexualizes minors” or because gay/bi/pan minors will ‘mistakenly’ identify as asexual)
Told asexuals to die: x, x, x, x, x (tbh this is only a tiny sample and I don’t have the heart to go digging for more)
Are all aphobes this vile? Maybe not, but this is still the disgusting, hateful attitude festering in the gatekeeping community, and it stinks like shit. The examples I have provided above are only a fraction of the harassment and abuse that is perpetrated on a regular basis.
“Het aces/aroaces are straight”
Some het aces identify as straight. Some het aces don’t identify as straight, they identify as asexual, and it’s not your place to label them against their will. There is no world in which aroaces, people who experience no attraction to anyone, are straight.
“Straight” isn’t a sexual orientation, it’s a position of power.
A-Spec Identities are Not Secondary.
Invisibility is Not a Privilege.
“passing privilege” is not a real thing.
Straight-passing privilege: a myth
Bad arguments against allowing a-spec to identify as queer
Having your identity erased is not a privilege.
asexuality, like bisexuality, is deliberately misunderstood by out groups in order to exclude us.
ace/aro people don’t “only” experience attraction to the ‘opposite gender’ or any other. that’s the point. we also experience a lack of attraction, either romantically or sexually, and that lack of attraction is part of our identity.
Straight is not default.
How many straight people do you know that want to kill themselves because of their orientation?
The closet is not a privilege
“We accept SGA (same-gender attracted) and trans aces”
Firstly, SGA (same-gender attraction) is a term that was used and is still used in Mormon conversion therapy, so as one can understand, a lot of people are very uncomfortable being labeled with this description. Secondly, it enforces a gender binary of “same” and “opposite” gender that leaves a large number of nonbinary people out in the cold. Is a genderfluid person only “same-gender attracted” if they’re attracted to other genderfluid people who are genderfluid in exactly the same way? How about agender, intergender, demigirl/boy people? And before the argument “well they’re included as trans” is made, there are plenty of nonbinary people who do not identify as trans. I’m one of them.
The standard of “SGA and trans” as requirement for entry to the LGBTQ community is used nowhere outside of aphobic tumblr, and it seems crafted specifically for the purpose of excluding aces, aros, NBs, intersex people, and others not deemed “gay enough”.
(SGA did NOT come from ‘SGL’, same-gender loving. That is a term created by black queer people and not to be appropriated by white people.)
Discussion of the history of the word ‘queer’ and why it’s better than ‘SGA’: x, x, x, x, x
There are also many “SGA and trans” aces who are against the gatekeeping and feel that they are hated by these aphobes.
You’re not protecting me by being an ace/aro exclusionist.
What we hear when you say “I only support SGA Asexuals/Aromantics”
my favourite thing is when aphobes try to tell me that their aphobia doesn’t apply to me / affect me because “[i’m] queer for other reasons”
okay, you wanna know why I’m for including all aces in the LGBT+ community?
Why your acephobia and arophobia is really just bullshit
it really annoys me when I see Discoursers say they support LGBT+ aces, just not cishet ones.
when you say “i accept sga and trans aces and aros but not cishet aces/aros because they’re straight”
Suffering! Suffering?
when people ‘accept’ sga/mga/non-cis aces and aros, but not others, what it actually means is they accept the part of you that isn’t directly tied to your asexuality/aromanticism
if ur gonna fuckin claim those four letters cover them & the whole damn community, they sure as fuck can cover aces as well
“Ace discourse” is really a Tumblr-only thing
I’m a lesbian ace and I’ve never felt more worthless and disgusting than this ace discourse
The reason even trans and bi/gay/pan/etc asexuals get defensive when you talk about cishet aces/aros not being part of the LGBT+ community is because you’re erasing a part of our identity??
If you talk shit about aces/aros with the disclaimer “cishet” it still affects all aces. Saying “notably cishet aces should all go die” still makes all ace/aro people feel like they are being called out.
Your “discourse” is harmful to all asexuals. And PS, your rhetoric is literally indistinguishable from TWERF rhetoric.
“The LGBT community has always been about fighting homophobia and transphobia/we came together to fight homophobia and transphobia”
“Homophobia and Transphobia”: What does the LGBT+ community fight for?
The modern American movement was first known as the “gay community” when cis gay men refused to even accept lesbians, then the “gay and lesbian community”. (Good reading on the subject.)
“After the elation of change following group action in the Stonewall riots in New York, in the late 1970s and the early 1980s, some gays and lesbians became less accepting of bisexual or transgender people. Critics said that transgender people were acting out stereotypes and bisexuals were simply gay men or lesbian women who were afraid to come out and be honest about their identity. Each community has struggled to develop its own identity including whether, and how, to align with other gender and sexuality-based communities, at times excluding other subgroups; these conflicts continue to this day.” (source)
“From about 1988, activists began to use the initialism LGBT in the United States. Not until the 1990s within the movement did gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people gain equal respect.” (ibid)
These are scans of a gay magazine from 1999 showing that 48% of those surveyed did not believe that trans people should be a part of the gay community.
The community’s boundaries have always been in flux
Insisting that LG people have always been accepting of bi and trans people is incredibly revisionist and does a great deal of injustice to those who have been excluded.
Despite the fact that bisexual and transgender people have always been around, and have done great things for the community, they have faced a great deal of lateral oppression from the LG part of the group that did not want to see them get an equal share of attention, support, or legitimacy. This post is not about proving LG transphobia and biphobia, but it’s so rampant that I don’t feel like I need to provide sources whatsoever. Nevertheless, here’s a collection of biphobia, and the blog @terf-callout documents some of the violent transphobia on this site, particularly in the lesbian community. This post is an example.
“The A stands for Ally so that closeted people can be the community without being outed”
No one is saying that we don’t care about closeted people, but a) even if you’re a closeted L, G, B, or T, you are still a L, G, B, or T. Allies do not need to be part of the acronym to be intrinsically welcomed. As someone said, this is like saying the ‘B’ in BLT stands for ‘bread’. We can pretty much safely assume that a sandwich is going to include bread, we don’t have to go of our way to give it a letter. Either you are outing every “ally” as a closeted queer person, or you are giving 100% cis straight people an LGBTQ member card, the very thing you are arguing against by trying to exclude asexuals.
Furthermore, this puts forth the argument “I’m willing to let cishet straight people into the community for the sake of a few closeted people” while at the same time stating “I’m not willing to let the A stand for asexuals because I don’t think letting cis heteroromantic asexuals into the community is worth giving all asexuals representation and support”. Which says that you consider asexuals less valuable and more of a threat than cis straight people.
Bonus: The History of LGBT(QQIAAP+)
“Aces have never been a part of the LGBTQ/queer community”
Asexuals recorded as “Group X” in the 1948 Kinsey Reports
What is asexual history? The 19th and 20th century
From The Westminster Review, a political magazine, in 1907; an essay by Helen Fraser called Women’s Suffrage, on how if women got the vote, butch and ace women were gonna dominate the whole thing and screw it up for all the Real Ladies.
The Spinster Movement, and how they were treated as queer
From “Feminism,” by Correa Moylan Walsh, 1917
the “aces/aros were part of the bi community until they very recently chose to split off, so stop telling them that they have never been queer or that they don’t belong in ‘the LGBT community’” masterpost
asexuality existed before David Jay and AVEN
“Where were you when…?” A History of Asexual Inclusion (Part One)
“Where were you when…?” A History of Asexual Inclusion (Part Two)
“Stop tokenizing bi and trans people/stop comparing bi/trans and ace experiences”
We’re not the ones doing it. They are comparing them, themselves.
Bisexual person discussing the similarities of anti-bi and anti-ace arguments
Pansexual person discussing the similarities in treatment (Follow up post)
Bisexual person recalling ace inclusion and discussing the similarities
Bisexual person discussing “SGA discourse”
Panromantic genderfluid person discussing lateral aggression
This Blog Explicitly Welcomes All Ace/Aro Folks As Part Of LGBTQIA
Bisexual trans person discussing the nature of asexuality
Trans lesbian discusses the identical nature of TWERF and aphobe rethoric
Pansexual person tells you to Cut It Out
Bisexual person discussing how the unifying common point of the community is deviation from the cisheteronormative norm
Bisexual genderqueer person says that the bi community and the a-spec community have a deep history together and have always been allies
Bisexual trans person discusses how we can relate to each other
Trans lesbian TAKES. YOU. DOWN.
Bisexual person arguing that all asexuals are queer
“I have proof of an asexual being homophobic/transphobic/racist/a terrible person”
Of course there are asexuals who are terrible people. There are legions of gays and lesbians who are racist and transphobic. Does that make them not gay/lesbian? Does their bigotry invalidate their sexual orientation, or remove the L and G from the acronym? No, I don’t think so. Some asexuals being bad people doesn’t justify you trying to invalidate all of us.
“’Allosexual’ is a bad word because ____”
I actually have an ‘allosexual’ tag just for posts about why ‘allosexual’ is a perfectly fine word: x, x, x, x, x. x
“The split-attraction model is homophobic”
What we call the split-attraction model was first described by Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, a gay advocate from the 1800s, as “disjunctive uranodioning”. (source) (credit to this post)
“The term ‘corrective rape’ was coined by South African lesbians and should only be used by lesbians”
No one means any disrespect to lesbians or other victims of corrective rape, but this is not a correct statement.
"We’ll Show You You’re a Woman” describes the violence directed towards LGBT people in South Africa, stating, “Negative public attitudes towards homosexuality go hand in hand with a broader pattern of discrimination, violence, hatred, and extreme prejudice against people known or assumed to be lesbian, gay, and transgender, or those who violate gender and sexual norms in appearance or conduct (such as women playing soccer, dressing in a masculine manner, and refusing to date men).” It goes on to say, “Much of the recent media coverage of violence against lesbians and transgender men has been characterized by a focus on “corrective rape,” a phenomenon in which men rape people they presume or know to be lesbians in order to “convert” them to heterosexuality.”
The Wikipedia article on corrective rape in South Africa states that, “A study conducted by OUT LGBT Well-being and the University of South Africa Centre for Applied Psychology (UCAP) showed that “the percentage of black gay men who said they have experienced corrective rape matched that of the black lesbians who partook in the study”.”
It is not only lesbians, but also bisexual women, transgender men, gay men, and gender non-conforming people in South Africa who experience corrective rape. This is not in any way meant to minimize the horror of the epidemic or shift attention away from lesbians, but other victims, including asexuals, deserve attention as well. Do not silence or speak over victims of rape by policing their language.
“Aces are valid, they’re just not queer/LGBTQ”
You cannot in one breath say “Asexuals are valid” and in the next deny their experiences. Spend five minutes in the community and you will see testimony after testimony from aces describing their abuse, their sexual assault(s), the countless times people have called them confused, broken, wrong, mentally ill, inhuman, sinful, and how these experiences have left them feeling hopeless, alone, alienated, subhuman, depressed, and suicidal. Almost every asexual out there will tell you a story of how their orientation has caused them pain and struggle, and you can’t call them valid while at the same time calling these experiences invalid and nonexistent.
Bonus: This is a list of all the mainstream LGBTQ groups that include asexuals.
“Form your own community!”
a) We do have our own community, because every letter in the acronym has its own community and yet is still part of the acronym, b) you fucking shits won’t stop sending us hate and bombarding us with shit meant to trigger and harass us.
“Aces take resources from other LGBTQ who need them”
I’ve seen some pretty wild claims about this one, insisting that asexuals “steal” things such as scholarships, beds at homeless shelters, food and space at pride events, suicide hotlines, and so on, yet I have never seen any actual proof that any “stealing” has ever taken place. For one thing, I thought “you’ll never get kicked out or fired for being ace”, “no one is suicidal because they’re asexual”, so why would you think aces need these resources? Either we don’t need them or we don’t use them, you can’t have it both ways.
For another, how heartless do you have to be to tell asexuals that they can’t use suicide hotlines? Do you realize that you’re saying that asexuals should be denied life-saving services? That, in essence, asexuals are suicidal due to their orientation, but you think they’re not “queer enough” so they deserve to die? Because that is the logical progression of refusing someone suicide prevention, and that’s the message aces receive when you tell them they are “stealing” suicide prevention.
LGBTQ resources offer them to asexuals, and benefit from us using them.
Lastly, do you not realize we are also PROVIDING resources? We are bringing bodies and minds to the community, we are here to be voices, to volunteer, to bring encouragement, information, and support. We earn our keep. You just have to admit that you don’t WANT us here.
“Nobody wants to hear about your nonexistent sex life”
Wow so the people who say asexuality sexualizes minors really ARE just spewing anti sex ed rhetoric. Why am I not surprised?
“um sweaty don’t teach minors about asexuality what the fuck”
i was shown a video of a real, 100% legit, natural vaginal birth at age 12. I learned what oral sex is at age 13. we went into extreme detail about penises and vaginas when I was 14 years old. all of this happened in my school health classes. I was (obviously) a minor when I was taught all this. so what exactly is the problem with teaching minors what asexuality is?
it isn’t about not teaching minors about asexuality at all, it’s about the fact that minors don’t experience sexual attraction until a later age and often lgb kids will rather use “asexual” than admit they’re same gender attracted
Some minors can experience sexual attraction as early as 13 though. I know I did. And tbh I don’t see anything wrong with someone identifying as asexual until they’re comfortable enough to come out (either to others or themselves) as something else.
yes and some people don’t experience sexual attraction until 19
many young lesbians only id as ace because they feel not wanting to have sex with men makes them ace! and that’s harmful! it furthers internalized homophobia!
Of course some people experience sexual attraction later everyone is different
And like, teaching about asexuality in school shouldn’t inherently promote that? I think that’s more of a problem with media and society, etc.
“It’s okay to be asexual but….”
“… don’t talk about it with your family or friends that’s TMI.”
“… don’t come out as asexual, no-one needs to know.”
“… don’t call asexuality an orientation, your real orientation is your romantic orientation.”
“… don’t use the split attraction model, it’s homophobic.”
“… don’t educate young people about asexuality, that’s sexualising them.”
“… don’t tell questioning people about asexuality, it may make them confused.”
“… don’t be proud of your asexuality, that’s sex shaming.”
“… don’t talk about issues you face for your asexuality, you’re not oppressed and your issues don’t matter.”
“… don’t create new vocabulary to describe your feelings or identity, that’s not even real”
“… don’t use existing LGBT vocabulary to describe your experiences, that’s appropriation.”
“… don’t ask not to be called straight, because you are straight.”
It’s only okay to be asexual if we’re silent about it.
yeah nobody really needs to know that you dont like sex
When I say “I am asexual” I am not saying “I don’t like sex”. People can experience attraction and not enjoy sex for a variety of reasons.
Asexuality is an orientation, not a decision… not a value statement… not a preference.
When I say “I am asexual”, as someone who doesn’t identify under the split attraction model, I am saying “I don’t experience attraction to people of any gender”. It’s no more explicit or TMI than talking about any other orientation is.
But to be honest, going the other way with this, I kind of feel like the whole “no-one needs to know about your sex life” idea comes across as vaguely sex-shaming in the first place. The fact is, it’s okay to talk about sex. Talking about sex in an age appropriate way is healthy and important. Obviously time, place and context are important… But adult friends often talk freely about their sex lives with each other if they are all comfortable talking about it, and there’s nothing wrong with that.
So in short. 1) Asexuality is my orientation, it’s no more explicit than any other orientation. 2) There’s nothing wrong with talking about sex (in an appropriate context).
Thanks for reading.
Hear hear!!! I’m so sick of the sex- and aspec-shaming going on in the exclusionist circles, it’s gotta fucking STOP!
#BoostAceVoices #BoostAroVoices
My only problem with this post is that cishet aroaces don’t fucking belong in LGBT spaces.
Two questions:
How are aroaces- people who are both aromantic and asexual- in any way het?
Where in this post did I make any statement about whether or not asexual people have a claim to LGBT+ spaces?
“ How are aroaces- people who are both aromantic and asexual- in any way het?”
Okay, you’ve got me there. But they’re still not LGBT.
“ Where in this post did I make any statement about whether or not asexual people have a claim to LGBT+ spaces?”
You said, and I quote, “ “… don’t use existing LGBT vocabulary to describe your experiences, that’s appropriation.” “ Which in context is you disagreeing with said perspective.
so aroaces aren’t hets, but they’re still not lgbt+? what?? ????
They can be their own thing, or maybe MOGAI will have them. I don’t feel safe with them invading LGBT spaces.
they’re not invading anything. they aren’t cishet, you said so yourself. they’re lgbt. i just don’t understand why you all insist on excluding them from a comunity that’s so used to being excluded.
Well okay let’s let them into LGBT. While we’re at it, we can bring in the Catholic priests, because they don’t have sex either. LGBTQAC?
Aromantic asexual (aroace) people are in no way comparable to Catholic priests.
Catholic priests choose to remain celibate in devotion to their religion. It is a choice, and it is related to their personal ideology and beliefs.
Aroace people do not choose to be aromantic or asexual. Just like people of any other orientation do not choose who they are or are not attracted to.
Asexuality and aromanticism are not related to any particular belief or ideology either, just like other orientations aren’t inherently linked to someone’s political or religious beliefs.
Thanks for reading.
Listen, I’ve come to recognize that I’ve been beaten here. Your argument is too sound, I can’t find any flaw with it, much to my chagrin. And I can’t think of an argument against it that doesn’t work against me as an admitted demisexual. I just know that I’m not comfortable around cis aroaces, there’s something about the combo of asexuality and aromance and cisgender-ness that rubs me the wrong way, the same way cishets do. I don’t like them, I’m never going to like them, and I don’t want to have to share a community with them.
So yeah, I can’t argue my point logically past this point, but I don’t care. There still remains the fact that cis aroaces make me feel unsafe, and I doubt I’m the only one. Cis aroaces still need to get their own community and stay away from me and others who aren’t cis aroaces like them.
Thanks for reading.
Hate to break it to ya @burningonyx but if you dislike/feel unsafe around cis aroaces for no other reason than just bc they’re cis aroaces then……
Specifically, it’s Aphobia™. I sincerely hope you work on that, and your bizarre, scary, and HARMFUL idea that cis aroaces need to be segregated, even from their fellow aspecs - “Cis aroaces still need to get their own community and stay away from me and others who aren’t cis aroaces like them.” - REALLY?!?!?!?!?! Like… wtf are you saying?!?!??!?!?
Sincerely,
- a cis, panromantic, demisexual
#BoostAceVoices #BoostAroVoices
Oh, I’m aphobic even though I’m a demisexual. Riiiight.
Also, bigotry you say? So it’d be bigotry if a woman felt unsafe with a man in the woman’s bathroom? It’d be bigotry for trans women to not let cis women into their safe space? Riiiight. Bigotry my ass, you dumb fuck.
Buddy old pal, you can be a woman and a misogynist, a gay/lesbian person and a homophobe, trans and a transphobe, pan and a panphobe, and believe it or fucking not, you can be aspec and an aphobe. STOP with these bullshit arguments, I’m so very fucking tired of & done with the ignorance.
Cis aroaces have never done a single thing to you and you cannot fucking compare cis aroaces to ppl with privilege who enact violence to maintain that privilege!
Not only that, how fucking bullshit is it that you claim to be demisexual and yet you’re frightened of cis aroace folks for no reason other than the fact that they’re cis aroace to the point that you actually want them SEGREGATED! You didn’t even fucking DENY IT!!!! Like… even IF you weren’t full of shit up until this point, this is where you definitely lose any fucking credibility.
I won’t even get into how brutal it is that you’re aspec yourself, terrified of certain fellow aspecs enough to demand their segregation, but somehow still deny this anti-aspec bigotry exists like… HAAAAAAA…..
This is a really pathetic & basic attempt at a hail-mary and you should be ashamed of your every. fucking. word.
That whole ‘men in women’s bathrooms’ getting dangerously close to how conservatives justify transphobia there my friend. Dangerously close.
Also, if you have no problem with cis bisexuals, cis lesbians, cis gays, cis pansexuals and even cis demisexuals then your random little ‘kk but not cis asexuals’ is nothing but pure bigotry.
In fact, you literally admitted you have no logical reason to distrust them, you just ‘don’t like them’. That’s prejudice. That’s bigotry. The fuck?
Right?!?! Oh and here’s a tl;dr instant replay on this hateful malarky (for anyone that missed it):
BO: “I just know that I’m not comfortable around cis aroaces, there’s something about the combo of asexuality and aromance and cisgender-ness that rubs me the wrong way, the same way cishets do. I don’t like them, I’m never going to like them… Cis aroaces still need to get their own community and stay away from me and others who aren’t cis aroaces like them.”
Me, FFC: “That’s literally aphobia, you’re literally arguing FOR segregation, and you’re literally a terrifying bigot.”
BO: “Oh, I’m aphobic even though I’m a demisexual. Riiiight… Bigotry my ass, you dumb fuck.”
Me: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
If those of every single LGBT+ identity that makes someone else in the community uncomfortable were excommunicated, there would literally be no community.
Why is exclusion for your personal comfort more acceptable than for radfem TERF lesbians who are uncomfortable with trans women in community spaces?
Or biphobic gays and lesbians who are uncomfortable with bi people in community spaces?
Or nbphobic trans people that are uncomfortable with nb people in community spaces?
Your bigotry is not more acceptable to be catered to than any other flavour.
Hell, what about LGBT+ women who are uncomfortable around men as a result of abuse? That’s not even bigotry, that’s a valid reaction to trauma, and we’re still not kicking all the LGBT+ men out of the community for survivors’ comfort.
Who made you God of the community, that your comfort is paramount?
It is not on the rest of the community to abide by your bigoted comfort levels, it is on you to unlearn your bigotry, or deal with it in silence. Or leave.
