The concepts of acesexuality and demisexuality have functioned as tools to erase feminist concerns about sexuality and relationships. Feminism began criticizing violent sex, hypersexulaty in our culture, the ideas that every woman should be available for sex whenever a man wants, and many other ideas like those. But now, women and girls who feel alienated by patriarchal culture don't have a support system based on a critical theory of our society... they have labels. Hypersexuality is not a cultural issue, it's a personal one, and if you don't like it it's your problem, and I hate how much of feminism we have lost thanks to identity politics.
Micro identities have meant that tons of categories are now based on how comfortable you are with a particular set of beliefs and also combined with the idea that you're not allowed to criticise those beliefs if you're not a member of the group. So you end up in this catch 22 of these beliefs never being criticised
Like someone being like
A: "I hate femininity, it feels really uncomfortable for me."
B: "Have you considered the fact that you're nonbinary?"
A: "Maybe I am...but I still think femininity is harmful."
B: "Well you're not a woman so you shouldn't comment on that."
Yeah that's exactly what I'm talking about. Identity politics derail conversations that try to confront issues that should be analyzed under a social lens and turn them into individual choices.
In the case of hypersexuality it goes like:
"I don't feel comfortable with the idea of having one night stands and having lots of partners"
"oh maybe you're demisexual"
"maybe, but I still don't like that women are expected to be available all the time for men"
"well, if they're doing it it's because they like it, so criticizing them is anti sex-positivity"
