Okay time for your monthly “random ace person gives their take on how people in the fandom treat Alastors asexuality”
I have never cared less about an issue regarding representation then I do about people bitching about “aphobia” in the Hazbin fandom
“Alastor is ace so it’s wrong to sexualize him!”
No it’s not, he’s literally fictional.
“Depicting/joking about Alastor having sex is invalidating to his sexuality!”
No, He is fictional, and so is his sexuality, you literally cannot invalidate it, he is not real.
“sexualizing him takes away one of the few ace reps that exist in media”
No it doesn’t, the canon media is not affected by fanfics/headcanon, Alastor will always be ace in canon regardless of how the fandom treats him.
“Alastor is obviously Aro/Sex repulsed and people who say he’s not are being Aphobic”
No, they’re literally just interpreting a character’s identity differently than you, someone having a different take then you about a character in media isn’t the same thing as being bigoted.
Do I think that Alastor is probably intended to be Sex repulsed and/or Aromantic? Yeah probably, and as an Sex repulsed ace person I feel very represented by him because of that, but frankly I don’t really care if someone chooses to interpret him as being on a different part of the ace spectrum or if they don’t really care to acknowledge it at all because it literally doesn’t affect me or my ability to see him as a piece of representation.
You want to know what really does offend me as an ace person?
Seeing people constantly complain about Alastor ships and treat the character like some sexless creature who can never self reflect about his identity, some of you people act like Alastors some pure being who doesn’t know what sex is and anyone who even mentions the idea of him having a sexual experience are freaks, He’s ace, not a child.
it is incredibly Infantilizing and patronizing to see people act this way about an ace character,
it’s genuinely insane that after so many years people still can’t seem to get the idea of the “ace means no attraction” stereotype out of their heads and acknowledge asexuality as being a spectrum of identities.
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