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kylie minogue :
“a supporting character” I am DEAD
I can’t believe this website is free
This post is like being repeatedly punched in the face and just when you think it’s over, you get kicked in the dick.
And just so we’re clear…Kylie Jenner is Armenian American.
She isn’t. Her sisters are, but Kylie is their half sister and she doesn’t have the same Armenian father.
straight people should have to wear “VISITOR” badges when they go to gay bars
WHY are hets so mad at this post I thought you didn’t want to get hit on at gay bars here’s a solution
was lined up for a gay bar the other night and told the straight couple in front of me to put their visitor badges on… they didn’t find it as funny as I did
it’s almost like getting assumed that you’re straight because you’re “””straight passing””” when both or either of you can be bi, ace, trans, etc is shitty and you should feel shitty for making assumptions about strangers enough to diminish their experience instead of minding your business.
Maybe it’s time to start throwing the ashes of the dead on the white house lawn again.
It occurs to me that not everyone knows about this.
In 1992, ACT-UP led a protest against George H.W. Bush, furious at his inaction in the face of the AIDS crisis. Angry queer people literally threw the ashes of their dead loved ones onto the white house lawn to shame the government into action. Another Ash Action happened in 1996.
There’s video. It is incredibly intense and made me openly sob the first time I watched it.
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Angry “q*eer” people really? Say homosexuals you fucking cowards. How about you dont use a slur when talking about our history and suffering
ACT-UP was an explicitly queer organization that used that language for themselves, you absolute fucking moron.
@thefuckingauditorium is a TERF. You’re expecting a lot out of them to have any kind of semblance of intelligence, or capability to do 60 seconds of research.
Why is amazon treating its employees like teachers treat students
Because infantilizing your underpaid workers is the best strategy to instill feelings of inferiority and fear, while also encouraging them to want to please middle managers for better treatment while not actually improving their situation at all. Its very effective.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_scrip
This is deadass the episode of Black Mirror where the cycles generate power and keep their workers mindlessly busy with fake currency and games for their labor.
i have no sympathy or empathy for pro life women either. you don’t get to make the rest of us play out your handmaid’s tale fetish
it’s very sad that they have those beliefs but it’s not wholly their fault.. they could just have those beliefs ingrained in their mind from their environment
Or maybe I feel bad for the women who believe abortion is their only option because it’s been so ingrained in their mind.
And maybe I’ve done a lot of research on this topic and believe in the basic human right of LIFE for all :)
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imagine calling yourself a feminist but hating women this much.
^^^ me at pro choicers who say they want to kill anyone pro life
When it comes to people from one side of this issue killing the other I think “pro-lifers” have got the pro-choice side beat, pal
Wow it’s almost like prolife-feminist forgets we aren’t the ones bombing and shooting up places. Or did you conveniently turn the other cheek when pro-lifers were killing people?
Where the hell did you get that impression? I think that bombing a planned parenthood is horrific.
pro choicers have hurt people too. They assault peaceful protestors (just look at that politician who was harassing a OLD LADY praying).
I literally don’t know why you would bring up violent pro lifers unless you’re running out of arguments
So you’re just going to ignore the fact that you brought up violent pro-choicers first, then.
i have no sympathy or empathy for pro life women either. you don’t get to make the rest of us play out your handmaid’s tale fetish
it’s very sad that they have those beliefs but it’s not wholly their fault.. they could just have those beliefs ingrained in their mind from their environment
Or maybe I feel bad for the women who believe abortion is their only option because it’s been so ingrained in their mind.
And maybe I’ve done a lot of research on this topic and believe in the basic human right of LIFE for all :)
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imagine calling yourself a feminist but hating women this much.
^^^ me at pro choicers who say they want to kill anyone pro life
When it comes to people from one side of this issue killing the other I think “pro-lifers” have got the pro-choice side beat, pal
Wow it’s almost like prolife-feminist forgets we aren’t the ones bombing and shooting up places. Or did you conveniently turn the other cheek when pro-lifers were killing people?
"Six weeks pregnant" is your period being two weeks late if your cycle is an unfailingly perfect 28 days, you utter ninny. The weeks are counted from the first day of the last period, which is TWO WEEKS BEFORE YOU EVEN HAVE THE SEX THAT GETS YOU PREGNANT, if you're lucky enough to have that perfect 28-day cycle with ovulation right in the middle of it! And you're a teacher! Your students deserve better than a teacher who misrepresents facts like that/doesn't educate themselves before talking.
If your period is 2 weeks late and you don’t suspect being pregnant you shouldn’t be having sex. Sex education in very important and So is the value of life. So if you’re going to be having sex, you need to understand the repercussions of it, how to prevent pregnancy, and what happens if your contraception fails.
But in any case, I’m a social studies teacher and the topic doesn’t come up beyond court cases. In civics. We don’t go into the way babies are made
And while I’m fixing your blatant Anti-Muslim racist assumptions on another post, let me just address this here, too. There are several, and I mean THOUSANDS of women in this world who do not have regular period cycles. This is due to hormone issues, birth control they’re already on, and a variety of other issues. I have a hormone imbalance and I have not had a period in close to five years. If a woman like me were to have sex, and get pregnant, they would not feasibly have any way of knowing that their period was ‘late’ in the first place. That is not because we are not ‘educated’ but because our bodies don’t inherently operate the same as yours. It could be closer to 8-10 weeks before we realized that we’re even pregnant, and that’s relying on other early symptoms showing up. That hormone imbalance? Makes me much more likely to have severe and deadly complications with pregnancy. That’s still in the first trimester and before the fetus even looks like a human being. If you’re a social studies teacher then maybe it’s best you take a second look at the fact not everyone enjoys the same privilege and health options that you do.
i have no sympathy or empathy for pro life women either. you don’t get to make the rest of us play out your handmaid’s tale fetish
it’s very sad that they have those beliefs but it’s not wholly their fault.. they could just have those beliefs ingrained in their mind from their environment
Or maybe I feel bad for the women who believe abortion is their only option because it’s been so ingrained in their mind.
And maybe I’ve done a lot of research on this topic and believe in the basic human right of LIFE for all :)
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Do not care
The handmaids tale is a peice of fiction, not real life.
y’all seem to be doing your damn best to make it real life! it was a dystopian piece of fiction, and now it’s like looking at a conservative blueprint for the future
Protecting life and forcing women to be birthing cattle and cover themselves compeltly (more in line with Muslims) different
Just stopping in very briefly to address the fact that the first thing that Good Ol’ Christian Boys in the South USA in particular ask, when a Good Ol’ Christian Girl is raped? What were you wearing. Don’t pretend like Christians don’t have a long ass history of making women cover up, and if a woman is raped, they often attribute it to her ‘wearing revealing clothing’ and ‘not covering up.’ Don’t pretend like you can compare The Handmaid’s Tale, dystopian fiction based on a Radical Christian Group with a lot of attributes to radical seclusionist cult Christianity, to only ‘Muslims’ ya racist piece of shit.
U.S. Births Fell To A 32-Year Low In 2018; CDC Says Birthrate Is In Record Slump
The U.S. birthrate fell again in 2018, to 3,788,235 births — representing a 2% drop from 2017. It’s the lowest number of births in 32 years, according to a new federal report. The numbers also sank the U.S. fertility rate to a record low.
Not since 1986 has the U.S. seen so few babies born. And it’s an ongoing slump: 2018 was the fourth consecutive year of birth declines, according to the provisional birthrate report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Birthrates fell for nearly all racial and age groups, with only slight gains for women in their late 30s and early 40s, the CDC says.
The news has come as something of a surprise to demographers who say that with the U.S. economy and job market continuing a years-long growth streak, they had expected the birthrate to show signs of stabilizing, or even rising. But instead, the drop could force changes to forecasts about how the country will look — with an older population and fewer young workers to sustain key social systems.
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It’s almost as if rising living cost, rent cost, and stagnant wage that makes the first two nearly unattainable make babies unaffordable.
It is Spring in the Northern Hemisphere! Even more good news is that the bee population has actually been climbing back up and they have been doing very well this year so far!
Which means you are more likely to see an increase of honeybee activity! Especially if you live near any open fields, orchards, or even just a lot of flowering plants!
When a new queen is born into a hive and becomes mature, she takes a lot of workers with her to find a new hive! But the queens are somewhat fat and not very strong fliers! So they stop and rest while scouts find a new spot for a hive! This is called swarming and looks something like this!
This is NOT a hive! If you see this behavior in bees, rest assured that they will likely be gone within the next few days once they find a spot for their hive! They don’t want to be there any more than you want them to be!
Sometimes they pick very inconvenient spots to swarm and understandably you want them gone as soon as possible! Luckily there is a humane way if removing them is your only option!
Call your local apiaries (beekeepers) and ask what options they have for humane swarm removal! Many pest control companies also have a humane option to transport a swarm to an apiary!
(About apiaries: Kept bees are actually very healthy and well taken care of and their contribution actually made a great impact in restoring the honeybee population!)
Remember to be good to our hard working little sisters! Don’t panic if you see a swarm, they will be gone before you know it!
And if I catch you hurting a swarm… bees will be the least of your problems!
-Captain Planet
do no harm to the swarm
In the USA you should actually kill bees due to their negative impact on local ecosystems. Bees aren’t meant to be in the United States. They were brought here by European settlers.
Hi you are ABSOLUTELY wrong and bees are a key and vital part of the pollination of several plants in the United States. Just because an animal isn’t native to a part of the world does not mean they do harm to local ecosystems. The Honeybee is brought over from Europe, and if managed apiaries / owned bees are left unchecked they CAN do harm in competition with local bees. But “bees” aren’t overall an invasive species. There are local natural bees as well. By no means should you actually ever KILL bees because the honeybee’s ‘threat’ to the environment is conditional and only really a ‘threat’ to natural bee species. Please do some actual research, because bees are SUPER vital to ALL ecosystems because pollinators ensure diversity and solid pollination across plants. A lot of plant life can and will go extinct without their pollinators, so please do not spread misinformation, @weridobirdo
fun fact if you aren’t of a certain demographic, but use your privilege as a way to mock or criticize the tragedy of another ethnic group because they don’t have the same options as you? that’s racist.
@animeeps-r-us no one is saying you can’t be vegan, we’re saying it’s a shitty thing to push a vegan agenda on a news story of a couple in a country where eating that food is not only cultural, but a source of their food because they relied on hunting to feed themselves and their family. there is no convenient ‘vegan option’ for people in many areas, and mocking their deaths and using it to push a vegan agenda is incredibly classist and racist.
If you eat a raw dead rat in 2019 you deserve the bubonic plague
we’ve all thought about eating a pigeon but it doesn’t mean you just pick one off the street and bite into it
this post is… not great.
the people who died were an ethnic Kazakh couple in a small Mongolian town. they didn’t eat a dead rat, they ate raw organs from a marmot they had hunted.
the plague is an endemic disease in Mongolia, spread largely through contact with marmots (largely as a result of their fleas). unfortunately, due to a lack of information, some people in Mongolia subscribe to the folk belief that eating raw marmot will lead to good health.
this couple contracted the disease–which is very treatable with antibiotics–but did not receive adequate care in time and, as a result, suffered horrifically before dying. they left behind four children, ranging in age from 14-years-old to 9 months. they did not deserve to die.
BuT eAtInG aNiMaLs Is NaTuRaL
hey uh i usually try not to be this rude but… fuck you.
how dare you try to twist a tragedy into an unrelated conversation about veganism/vegetarianism? how dare you shame two people who just died painfully for their diets?
this is not a fucking discussion about eating meat. this is specifically about eating the raw meat of an animal that can carry the disease.
i hate to break it to you, but eating meat IS natural. humans are naturally omnivores—just look at our teeth. choosing to eat only plants is FINE but it is not what we were biologically designed to do, which is why extra effort must be made to ensure you’re getting the necessary nutrients. i say all of this as someone who also doesn’t eat meat.
veganism isn’t fucking possible in much of the world. we are privileged with our ability to make such specific dietary choices—people in remote locations in developing countries often do not have the luxury of a choosing such a tailored diet. they eat what’s available to them, which is often animal products.
you are not morally superior to people who are not vegan.
eating meat in general will not give you the fucking bubonic plague. no one will get the plague if they eat a burger. you are why we get made fun of.
I legit stopped reading after your second point because of how dumb you sound
……………i literally studied biology and am sharing basic scientific information.
Apparently not hard enough! Humans are actually frugivores! I cannot take anyone seriously who says “look at our mouths” (what a fucking joke!)
1 of the 5 things you stated is factual, the rest are your opinion, whether you like that or not
…..what?
humans have canines and incisors for tearing meat and molars for eating plant matter.
we don’t have cellulases or cellulosic symbionts, which many herbivorous species have in order to facilitate a solely plant-based diet. we, do, however have proteases, which are enzymes designed to break down proteins and peptides, like many carnivores and omnivores.
at the same time, we have things like sucrase, which facilitates the breaking down of fruits, and salivary mylase, which helps break down starches. this shows we didn’t evolve as strictly carnivores.
also, like many carnivores and omnivores, we require vitamin B12, which doesn’t have a common plant source, hence why non-meat eaters must take supplements or eat B12 fortified foods.
all of this indicates that we evolved to eat meat and plant matter. Homo sapiens were never frugivores.
i am praying you are a troll, because otherwise you’re just a very rude and generally unpleasant person.
Did you copy this from your bio textbook? Your arguments are utter bullshit and I wish I had the energy to continue this. Block me… go have a problem with some other shit
tumblr user iwilleatyourenglish, someone who very easily said they personally do not eat meat in their second post: very basic biology facts that anyone with common sense can research tumblr user veganvyper: I don’t have an argument for this so BLOCK MEEEEEEE
So you’re telling me that humans have the SAME insicors and canines as bears and chimps? That’s a JOKE. We’re going to ignore the fact that b12 DOESNT come from animals??
You’re calling me racist because it’s easy, and it’s a cop out. I’m not even fucking white 😭😭
If you eat a raw dead rat in 2019 you deserve the bubonic plague
we’ve all thought about eating a pigeon but it doesn’t mean you just pick one off the street and bite into it
this post is… not great.
the people who died were an ethnic Kazakh couple in a small Mongolian town. they didn’t eat a dead rat, they ate raw organs from a marmot they had hunted.
the plague is an endemic disease in Mongolia, spread largely through contact with marmots (largely as a result of their fleas). unfortunately, due to a lack of information, some people in Mongolia subscribe to the folk belief that eating raw marmot will lead to good health.
this couple contracted the disease–which is very treatable with antibiotics–but did not receive adequate care in time and, as a result, suffered horrifically before dying. they left behind four children, ranging in age from 14-years-old to 9 months. they did not deserve to die.
BuT eAtInG aNiMaLs Is NaTuRaL
hey uh i usually try not to be this rude but… fuck you.
how dare you try to twist a tragedy into an unrelated conversation about veganism/vegetarianism? how dare you shame two people who just died painfully for their diets?
this is not a fucking discussion about eating meat. this is specifically about eating the raw meat of an animal that can carry the disease.
i hate to break it to you, but eating meat IS natural. humans are naturally omnivores—just look at our teeth. choosing to eat only plants is FINE but it is not what we were biologically designed to do, which is why extra effort must be made to ensure you’re getting the necessary nutrients. i say all of this as someone who also doesn’t eat meat.
veganism isn’t fucking possible in much of the world. we are privileged with our ability to make such specific dietary choices—people in remote locations in developing countries often do not have the luxury of a choosing such a tailored diet. they eat what’s available to them, which is often animal products.
you are not morally superior to people who are not vegan.
eating meat in general will not give you the fucking bubonic plague. no one will get the plague if they eat a burger. you are why we get made fun of.
I legit stopped reading after your second point because of how dumb you sound
……………i literally studied biology and am sharing basic scientific information.
Apparently not hard enough! Humans are actually frugivores! I cannot take anyone seriously who says “look at our mouths” (what a fucking joke!)
1 of the 5 things you stated is factual, the rest are your opinion, whether you like that or not
…..what?
humans have canines and incisors for tearing meat and molars for eating plant matter.
we don’t have cellulases or cellulosic symbionts, which many herbivorous species have in order to facilitate a solely plant-based diet. we, do, however have proteases, which are enzymes designed to break down proteins and peptides, like many carnivores and omnivores.
at the same time, we have things like sucrase, which facilitates the breaking down of fruits, and salivary mylase, which helps break down starches. this shows we didn’t evolve as strictly carnivores.
also, like many carnivores and omnivores, we require vitamin B12, which doesn’t have a common plant source, hence why non-meat eaters must take supplements or eat B12 fortified foods.
all of this indicates that we evolved to eat meat and plant matter. Homo sapiens were never frugivores.
i am praying you are a troll, because otherwise you’re just a very rude and generally unpleasant person.
Did you copy this from your bio textbook? Your arguments are utter bullshit and I wish I had the energy to continue this. Block me… go have a problem with some other shit
tumblr user iwilleatyourenglish, someone who very easily said they personally do not eat meat in their second post: very basic biology facts that anyone with common sense can research tumblr user veganvyper: I don’t have an argument for this so BLOCK MEEEEEEE
some people wanna live uneducated you know. Antivaxxers. Vegans who don’t realize the financial struggles of people who have to hunt for a living to eat because several terrains don’t produce the amount of natural plant-based food to sustain their populations. Those sorts.
If you eat a raw dead rat in 2019 you deserve the bubonic plague
we’ve all thought about eating a pigeon but it doesn’t mean you just pick one off the street and bite into it
this post is… not great.
the people who died were an ethnic Kazakh couple in a small Mongolian town. they didn’t eat a dead rat, they ate raw organs from a marmot they had hunted.
the plague is an endemic disease in Mongolia, spread largely through contact with marmots (largely as a result of their fleas). unfortunately, due to a lack of information, some people in Mongolia subscribe to the folk belief that eating raw marmot will lead to good health.
this couple contracted the disease–which is very treatable with antibiotics–but did not receive adequate care in time and, as a result, suffered horrifically before dying. they left behind four children, ranging in age from 14-years-old to 9 months. they did not deserve to die.
BuT eAtInG aNiMaLs Is NaTuRaL
hey uh i usually try not to be this rude but… fuck you.
how dare you try to twist a tragedy into an unrelated conversation about veganism/vegetarianism? how dare you shame two people who just died painfully for their diets?
this is not a fucking discussion about eating meat. this is specifically about eating the raw meat of an animal that can carry the disease.
i hate to break it to you, but eating meat IS natural. humans are naturally omnivores—just look at our teeth. choosing to eat only plants is FINE but it is not what we were biologically designed to do, which is why extra effort must be made to ensure you’re getting the necessary nutrients. i say all of this as someone who also doesn’t eat meat.
veganism isn’t fucking possible in much of the world. we are privileged with our ability to make such specific dietary choices—people in remote locations in developing countries often do not have the luxury of a choosing such a tailored diet. they eat what’s available to them, which is often animal products.
you are not morally superior to people who are not vegan.
eating meat in general will not give you the fucking bubonic plague. no one will get the plague if they eat a burger. you are why we get made fun of.
I legit stopped reading after your second point because of how dumb you sound
No you stopped reading after the second point because you’re a classist piece of shit that refuses to acknowledge that people in other countries can’t afford your premium diets and still sustain their medical and nutritional needs and the third point blasted you out of the water.
It’s All A Fucking Joke, Right
In the few months I’ve been modding at fuckyeahasexual and touring ace Tumblr, there’s been a very. Steady. Stream of info that detail horrifically abusive situations and overall poor mental unhealth. Two a week in the inbox if I’m lucky, usually around seven-ten.
And there’s been so many, I can officially categorize all 500+ of these kinds of asks and submissions into an extensive bulletlist of Why Asexual Exclusionary Radicalism Is Incredibly Toxic And Shitty;
Coming Out To Family, Friends, And Employers
“My parents keep telling me that I’m something else, and it’s making me doubt my sense of judgement, not just about my sexual identity, but also about everything in general.”
“My family, friends, and co-workers keep referring to me as an inanimate object in a manner that’s clearly meant to humiliate and devastate me. Nothing I say will get them to stop.”
“My parents vocally/bodily forced me to undergo medical examinations, some of them concerning my sexual organs, many of them concerning blood tests and other trauma-centric procedures.”
“My family is intervening with my private life by changing my schedule to include exercise, socialization, friend influences, and whatever they think can ‘change’ me.”
“My friends/co-workers no longer respect my bodily boundaries when I came out to them, because they no longer see me as someone who should be respected. They regularly touch, fondle, grope, and prod me without permission, and/or verbally harass me, and don’t take my objections seriously.”
“My family, friends, and co-workers no longer just harass me, but also anyone I’m currently dating because they view my significant other as pathetic, underserved, or even being abused.”
First Few Days Of Dating
“My date got irrationally angry and confrontational when I came out to them, in a manner that made me fearful.” (SO many of these.)
“My date immediately lost any respect they had for my boundaries, no longer asked for consent, and {tried to} force themselves upon me.” (A lot of these, too)
“My date tried to verbally circumvent any boundaries and issues I confessed to, and it made me feel like I was in danger.”
“I didn’t come out to my date at first, and when they found out, they radically changed their behavior in an attempt to control and manipulate our new relationship to their benefit.”
Long-Term Relationships
“My partner has forcefully and radically changed our long-term relationship after finding out about my asexuality, and I’m now trapped and controlled in a way that I wasn’t before.”
“My partner broke up with me/is fighting with me because of my asexuality, and trying to make it seem like I’m hurting them. It’s made me doubt myself and my ability to trust my own intentions.”
“My partner is slowly changing from what was once supportive of my asexuality, and I’m wondering when I have the right to be worried and when I’d be overreacting. I’m aware of the worst case scenario, but I also worry that I’m being selfish and childish - which are things I’ve been told all throughout my asexual experience.”
Self-Care And Self Development
“I don’t trust my ability to say either yes or no in sexual situations, and this has extended to my life in general. I don’t feel comfortable in my ability to self-determinate.”
“The lack of authority, definition, and schooling of the concept of asexuality has made me very uncomfortable with what I think I am, and that uncertainty haunts me every waking moment.”
“I think it’s too late/too early to tell if I’m asexual, but the longer I hesitate, the worse my mental health and emotional wellbeing gets. I’m effectively stuck.”
“I see no benefit in coming out, or even identifying as asexual. There’s no positivity, role models, or supportive community for what I consider a big and scary part of my overall identity.”
“I think this was sexual abuse, but I’m wondering if I’m just being selfish and childish.”
“I think I was treated badly by my parents/friends/partner, but I’m wondering if I’m just being selfish and childish.”
“I want to believe that I’m deserving of equal freedom and human respect paid to other, not asexual people, but people tell me I’m being selfish and childish.”
“No one encourages this part of me. And that makes me feel forgotten and abandoned in general.”
Shut the fuck up about your petty beef with tumblr bloggers and youtubers and Archie comics or whatever. I literally do not care, I can’t care. I see these messages every goddamn day - this post was written and drafted a month ago, and I very easily compiled most of this bulletpoint list from scratch, just by eyeing what I see in the askbox and what comes across my dash.
‘Ace discourse’ anger is empty and so meaningless. This is what I see by being part of this one 17k follow asexual ask blog for maybe half a year. I am so Done with all the faux rage posts and all the false positivity about how it’s ok to NOT be ace and all the acephobia that falls perfectly in line with the gaslighting typical of acephobia-101 while also having the audacity to claim it not so.
This is what’s real and I want to bleed it into your goddamn eyes.
Reblogging this again, for obvious reasons
Ace ppl are not INSTITUTIONALLY OR SYSTEMATICALLY OPPRESSED BECAUSE OF THE DEGREE THAT YOU FEEL SEXUAL ATTRACTION. If ur trans ur lgbtq. If ur aro but ur gay, bi, pan ur lgbtq. If ur ace but homo, biromantic etc ur lgbt. Being ace doesnt make u lgbt by default. Does the interpersonal lack of understanding suck and should change? Yeah. But society doesnt want u dead so cishet aces stay tf out our business.
Someone read this, all this stuff about struggles of people coming out as ace, people abusing them and telling them that their identity isn’t real or is a problem to be fixed, making people feel worthless and feeling that they’re in the wrong about their own goddamn identity, and said “nah they ain’t oppressed™ enough to be in a community of people who face the same issues”
U mad huh?
Anyway….aces can’t be systematically opressed. None of those things are examples of systematic oppression
Also nice how they called it “asexual exclusionary radicalism” as if it wasn’t a cheap tactic to compare ace exclusionist to twerfs
@lavabendingthot @lunarsolareclipse @homoelitism
Hey, instead of being a giant piles of garbage, try reading up:
“Aces don’t face oppression”
Intergroup bias toward “Group X”: Evidence of prejudice, dehumanization, avoidance, and discrimination against asexuals
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 beincluded 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-calloutdocuments 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 communityand 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, andbenefit from us using them.
Lastly, do you not realize we are alsoPROVIDING 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.
Corrective rape against asexuals is a real thing
Asexuals do face discrimination in the workplace
We had to lobby for our sexuality not to be diagnosed as a mental illness
Asexual people are often afraid to come out to their friends and families, and for good reason
People will literally think of someone as being less human if they are asexual
These issues have the potential to affect ALL asexuals
Nasty shit aphobes do
(Thanks to @livebloggingmydescentintomadness for these)
My own contribution:
Living in a world where the media is overflowing with sexual imagery and where society constantly puts value on sexual intercourse, virginity, and related topics - who can forget the phrase ‘sex sells’? - men and women who do not experience sexual attraction (the definition of asexuality) and who are sex-repulsed or masturbation-repulsed (as many asexuals, myself included, are) feel alienated and ‘broken’. We also face erasure in terms of representation, being either grossly underrepresented or represented as cold, harsh, and ‘synonymous with celibate’ people. Let’s not forget erasure from LGBT spaces - I have many times been told that asexuals do not belong in the acronym or in “our spaces”, even though asexuals have the capacity to be homoromantic, biromantic, panromantic, etc, as well as transgender or nonbinary. And, if we don’t belong in LGBT spaces, and we clearly aren’t heterosexual, what do we belong? Nowhere, it seems. Of course, the argument also drifts to “asexuals don’t experience oppression”, which is false.
Examples of asexual oppression:
http://autumndiesirae.tumblr.com/post/118710018295/aces-dont-face-discrimination
Asexuals are the highest targets for corrective rape:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/20/asexual-discrimination_n_3380551.html
Go fuck yourselves. <3
Also, I didn’t see it mentioned on here but so many asexual people i know have this story:
“My partner is using their sexual needs to guilt, shame, coerce, or manipulate me into sex or sexual acts I didn’t want / straight up forced me / accused me of abuse for not wanting sex”
and/or “my partner cheated on me and told me I should have expected it, that I deserved it, or that they couldn’t help themselves”
