@lesbianhellinictrash replied to your post “i’m gonna get a shit ton of hate for this, but i’m telling y’all, as...”
Why don't we agree that she's Asexual Homoromantic? That's compromise and it makes sense with the myths.
Okay so this isn’t a knock at you cause you seem like you’re actually chill and trying to find a compromise and/or bring rep to both groups, but I’m really tired of the “people can be gay and ace” argument.
You said you’re a middle schooler, so you probably weren’t on tumblr or in other queer groups long enough to see where this came from, but like the argument I mentioned in my original post, it came from an attempt to derail ace people and isolate them, because the people who started out saying “gay ace people exist” were primarily aphobes looking to only focus on the gay part and, after realizing they were going to lose the ace “argument,” tried to shift themselves into looking like the good guys again and that aces were actually the close-minded ones. People who tried to say they actually see the character with another romantic orientation were shut down and called homophobic (usually lesbophobic specifically because it was, at the time, a buzzword meant to shut down ace women who were just trying to speak up for themselves).
Further more, it’s a qualifier. It implies that ace people aren’t queer enough on their own without adding them being gay to it, because the argument was originally primarily used in arguments of “is this character queer” and what kind of queer they are- Jughead Jones is a major example. He’s stated to be asexual in the comics and heavily implied to be aromantic, but when the aroacejugheadorbust campaign started, detractors came in saying that “well, jughead’s only stated to be ace, so he can be gay, too, and still be queer.” Also, aphobes knew that would split the hashtags between the aroacejugheadorbust and other ace jughead hashtags, weakening the movement so they could get what they actually wanted: no ace or aro rep.
So many of these additions to other people’s posts about how “they can be both” or that someone is actually a different orientation are meant to derail the original poster, not to bring about further, intelligent discussion or seek out a compromise. If you really do want to have a conversation on it, make your own post and state what you want because that’s your best chance at getting it, because if you hop onto someone else’s post, they may see it as just part of a pattern of people concern trolling.
Lastly, and this just goes to my opinion on your point specifically and at the face value you intended for it, I’d argue that according to the myths and Artemis’s interactions with Orion, she’s not homoromantic- she’s either aromantic and in a QPR with him or heteroromantic. She’s never indicated to have a relationship with women outside of children, whom she protects or has in her choir; nymphs, who take care of her dogs; and women giving birth.
I don’t want you to stop questioning and exploring identities because it’s super important to your growth as a person, but it’s also important to understand where some of these claims are coming from, because they’re not always well-intentioned.
