#aro demi

[boinails]

*slams fists on the table* if the sims can be in no-romo committed woohoo situations than so can I 😤😤😤😤

[dailyaspecpositive]

I was inspired to talk about an oversight in the aro community by @aro-culture-is ‘s post [X] The aro community is more than just alloaros and aroaces. To view alloaro/aroace as a strict binary between aros who feel sexual attraction and aros who don’t is at best to massively oversimplify the truth and at worst to straight up lie. Binaries like this one alienate the many aros who fall in the grey areas of the asexual spectrum or who don’t define their sexuality in those terms/at all. To be inclusive to these members of our community, it is important to not frame the aro community as if it is made up of only aroaces and alloaros.

Aros who don’t use the SAM

Aros who experience only some sexual attraction

Aros who refuse sexuality labels

Quoisexual aros

Aros questioning their sexuality

Aros who maintain their sexuality is none of your business

Aros who microlabel their sexuality

Angled aroaces, and to an extent, oriented aroaces

These aros are excluded, marginalised, or ignored by binarising the community. It’s vitally important that we keep in mind aromanticism and asexuality exist on spectrums, and that those spectrums can’t be reduced to binaries in the same way we can’t assume a rainbow to be made up of only red and purple. To do so is to ignore the nuance that makes it interesting enough to talk about in the first place. Unless we’re talking about something that definitely only effects end-case alloaros/aroaces, we’ll try our best to rephrase in a more thoughtful and inclusive way in the future. - Mod Kricketot