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[psief]

i would like to be able to help people understand issues they are not educated on, and i understand doing so anonymously, however i don’t want to discomfort anyone else who is just looking for fan content to instead see that. does anyone have any suggestions for what i could do instead?

i’m thinking i might make it so that any questions such as this in the future i will direct to my personal blog @microlichen and only post them here as well if it is an issue i was incorrect on or that should be spread around fandom instead of simply one person not understanding a specific subject.

[psief]

By that logic, would not "cisgendered" lump many cis gay and bi people in with their oppressors? Isnt *types* of discrimination a thing? You can be discriminated against for your race for example but still experience straight privilege and vise versa. I thought that the asexual community was just trying to find a way to differentiate their experience from the sexual experience, not to dismiss the experiences of others. I dunno, Im a straight cis so I just try to be as respectful as I can

i appreciate you trying to be respectful but i’m a asexual nonbinary lesbian and i can promise you i do not face institutional oppression for my asexuality. you are right that different forms of oppression intersect but to compare the word cisgender to allosexual is a false analogy. all cis people have privilege for being cis. trans people face institutional oppression, meaning that society actively works against them with things such as bathroom laws and hate crimes. asexual people are not institutionally oppressed. there is no conspiracy against asexuality in our society. i would say it is more comparable to things such as having red hair, in that it is considered unusual and people may make jokes on the subject, but they do not face oppression for it and do not have things like laws made against them or face hate crimes.

again, you are correct that intersections or marginalization change how people are oppressed, but lgbt people who have sex face no privilege in any way for having sex. throughout history and even today there are laws against people having sex with their same gender. this is not at all comparable against straight people who have sex.

[psief]

HELLO I am reading your rules and kind of browsing your blog and everything and one thing really struck me as strange was this rule that you dont approve of "use words such as monosexual and allosexual" Im asking because as a non asexual person I have been following the rise of the word allosexual to designate the opposite of asexual, and had come to understand that it was respectful that we use this word? Much like I have accepted the word cisgendered for myself? Im just kind of confused

hi!! thank you for asking! there is a lot of debate on the topic on the moment, however as an asexual spectrum person myself i agree with the argument that it is inappropriate and homophobic. asexual people, while they may not be considered the “norm” do not face institutional oppression. for this reason a category that lumps together many gay/bi/pan people with many of their straight oppressors is homophobic and holds no purpose and is not a cohesive class, as lgbt people are not afforded any privilege from having sex, instead facing oppression for it while straight people who have sex are treated entirely differently.

i hope i worded this in a way that makes sense and if anyone would like to add on to what i’ve said/make it clearer please feel free to!

[psief]

hello! i'm having trouble figuring out the purpose of this blog, am i right thinking this blog is for fans that don't associate with harmful content to follow and post/reblog from the tags, so they have a space to look for safe content/a way to meet other fans that prioritize safety? will you post other things, like fandom critical? sorry if this is a very obvious question - i have trouble processing dense text and i only got from the about who it's for, not what it's for or how it works!

oh im sorry!! honestly i made the about at 4am i should probably fix it now that im more Awake so thank you for this question!

yeah you’re right! essentially i thought people could use the psief tags and this blog as a way to find content and engage in fandom while ensuring safety . so its basically like? a smaller version of tumblr fandom and tags?

and i’m not sure yet exactly what i’ll do wrt things that arent strictly fanworks like criticisms of people doing bad things in fandoms but i think if someone asked me to reblog a post about an issue id def do it bc i think thats in the spirit of this blog and helps promote a safer fandom environment

[microlichen]

ive only made makishima and tadokoro so far but heres my favorite outfits!!! theyre lesbians and tadokoro is futch/soft butch and makishima is Weird Femme

[psief]

ask and submit are on now!! sorry about that

[microlichen]

im making yowapeda sims and this might not be maki’s usual style but this is??? literally the Ideal climber shirt

[psief]

hi!! we’re a new blog with the hopes of creating better fandom communities. fandom is a wonderful thing for its creation of transformative works, however there has been a long history of these works normalizing harmful subject matter, creating an unsafe environment for minors, survivors, and marginalized peoples. by creating a community where everyone agrees to basic guidelines, we hope to create a safer niche of fandom where one can easily find and contribute content without being subjected to harmful material. for more details you can read our links!

i hope no one minds me posting this in tags of preexisting communities i think may be interested and please feel free to signal boost this post!