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@theatomicace
“Why Beetlejuice Should Stay on Broadway”?
Recently came across a really good quality bootleg of Beetlejuice on youtube by that name, but I forgot to download it and it seems it’s been taken down now (or at the very least I can’t find it anymore.)
Did anyone happen to save it or is it lost for good?
pls give me 1(one) reason aces have ever been oppressed, and 1(one) example of aces being a part of lgbt history(before 2004 at least) and then maybe i’ll consider the idea that aces belong in the lgbt community lol
Proof of the existence of asexuals in LGBT+ communities before 2000:
The Golden Orchid association (1644-1949) - a group of women in China that included lesbians, bisexuals, and “women who wanted to avoid both marriage options, and any romantic or sexual partnership” that today we would call asexual or aromantic.
Another Golden Orchid association link (which, interestingly, describes what appears to be a poly relationship).
Personal experience of a queer-identifying person noting that aces were part of the bi community in the 80s and 90s.
A book published in 1999 supports the previous link of someone’s personal experience, and notes that asexuals could be considered part of Kinsey’s “Group 3″ (the bisexuals) because they were “about equally homosexual and heterosexual” and “have no strong preferences for one or the other” just like bisexuals.
Another book that supports the personal experience source by noting that asexuals were considered part of the bisexual “Group 3″, which was published in 1999.
Another post of someone’s personal experiences of asexuals being part of the LGBT+ community in the 90s.
A source from 1999 noting that, while some female-female relationships in the early to mid-twentieth century were obviously lesbian relationships, not all of them were, but that it would be a mistake to label them all “friendships”. It specifically notes that asexual partnered relationships also existed.
This book describes a series of interviews done in 1990 by Catherine Whitney who interviewed heterosexual women married to gay men, and found that they were often asexual. It also describes how, in 1990, Ann Landers (a very popular advice columnist) asked her readers if married couples could enjoy a full life without sex and was flooded with 35,000 responses from people of all ages who had little or no sex and didn’t miss it. It also describes how “Boston marriage” was originally coined with a not-necessarily-always-accurate implication that such a relationship between women was nonsexual, but that later on the assumption was reversed to imply women in a sexual lesbian relationship, and how that caused some women involved in such relationships to hide the asexual nature of their relationships for fear of being called frauds by the larger lesbian community.
This 1997 book that states “To be a Kinsey 3 (bisexual) is to be equally attracted to men and women, i.e. completely bisexual…it is also to be equally unattracted to men and women, i.e. completely asexual. Bisexuality is never about two, only about one – asexual, or self-fulfilling – or three – continuously and equally attracted to both men and women”.
Proof of asexuality being considered as a concrete, distinct orientation before 2000:
One of the first online posts about asexuality in its current use, was made in 1997.
A study on anorexia and bulemia in gay and bisexual men done in 1999 found that 58% of anorexia patients were asexual.
The 1997 Australasian Gay & Lesbian Law Journal mentions asexual as a “relevant sexual identity”.
A 1983 issue of the Journal of Sex Research studied the Mental Health Implications of Sexual Orientation among heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, and asexual people.
The article “Asexuality as Orientation: Some Historical Perspectives” describes different historical studies on asexuality, including a study from Johnson in 1977 where the word asexual was used to describe women “regardless of physical or emotional condition, actual sexual history, and marital status or ideological orientation, [who] seem to prefer not to engage in sexual activity”. It also describes a 1980 study by Storms who included asexual as one of four orientation categories when mapping out sexual orientation. It also describes a 1983 study by Nurius that found out of 685 participants, 5% of males and 10% of females were asexual. It also describes a 1990 study by Berkley et al. that included questions “related to homosexuality, heterosexuality, and asexuality” and included four items (out of 45) that were specific to asexuality.
This book published in 1922 contains a lot of what I personally would describe as narcissism and pseudo-science, but acknowledges asexuality nonetheless: “In addition to the ordinary distinctive males and females, we have asexuals, homosexuals, bisexuals, and old women of both sexes.”
This book from 1996 that notes “A transsexual may have a heterosexual orientation, a homosexual orientation, a bisexual orientation – or an asexual orientation” and clarifies that “a very small number – are asexual or bisexual.”
This book mentions a study by Malyon in 1981 that noted the options available to gay and lesbian teenagers choosing whether, or how, to come out by “[describing] three possible modes of adaptation in adolescence: repression of sexual desire, suppression of homosexual impulses in favor of heterosexual or asexual orientation, or a homosexual disclosure.”
Kinds of oppression that asexuals face:
Eunjung Kim wrote a chapter titled “How Much Sex Is Healthy? The Pleasures of Asexuality” that describes how “the absence of sexual desires, feelings, and activities is seen as abnormal and reflective of poor health” in Western contemporary culture “because of the explicit connection between sexual activeness and healthiness” and argues that “medical explanations of asexuality as an abnormality that has to be corrected constitute a large part of the stigmatization and marginalization experienced by asexual people.” It also discusses the ways in which some groups, specifically Asian American males, that are desexualized can erase the space for asexual Asian American men to simply exist.
Asexuals also face sexual harassment, rape threats, corrective sexual assault, and corrective rape (which, no, is not a lesbian-only term according to actual South Africans) specifically because they are asexual.
There was a recent study by the AAU to identify sexual assault on college campuses, and broke down the responders to their survey by sexual orientation, including asexual. The results clearly show that asexuals are not immune to unwanted sexual contact, stalking, intimate partner violence, or sexual harassment.
A chapter of “Asexualities: Feminist and Queer Perspectives” that notes the specific way that asexual people are talked to/about: “Because asexual difference cannot be iterated in the linguistic field where sex and a sexed position dominate the discourse of sexuality and desire, the asexual subject is linguistically and visually dismantled and reconstructed in the position of a fetish object. This fetishistic conversion happens because the asexual person is made into an image, or spectacle, for consumption.” and “The difference between the unassailable asexual (someone who lacks all of the traits commonly blamed for asexuality such as past history of abuse, disability, etc.) and the spectacular asexual is that while the unassailable asexual allegedly makes asexuality digestible for a skeptical public and presents an accessible image, the spectacular asexual is always consumed as a fetish object, regardless of mental health, ability, and gender.”
The study “Intergroup bias toward “Group X”: Evidence of prejudice, dehumanization, avoidance, and discrimination of asexuals” is exactly what it sounds like. The article’s abstract states: “In two studies (university student and community samples) we examined the extent to which those not desiring sexual activity are viewed negatively by heterosexuals. We provide the first empirical evidence of intergroup bias against asexuals (the so-called “Group X”), a social target evaluated more negatively, viewed as less human, and less valued as contact partners, relative to heterosexuals and other sexual minorities. Heterosexuals were also willing to discriminate against asexuals (matching discrimination against homosexuals). Potential confounds (e.g., bias against singles or unfamiliar groups) were ruled out as explanations.”
The Invisible Orientation: An Introduction to Asexuality describes many issues that asexuals face, including: how asexuality is seen as “invisible” and lends to people thinking it does not exist, how asexuality is actively erased as “unimportant” or not its own identity, the explicitly and implicitly negative messages associated with a lack of sexual attraction, the fear asexuals face when they believe there is something physically or psychologically wrong with them for being asexual, the belief asexuals face about how they must be deeply flawed since they do not conform to other sexual identities, how asexuals face cultural ideologies that sexuality is biologically based and ubiquitous (that all humans possess sexual desire) and that don’t acknowledge asexuality, that to describe oneself as asexual is a statement of moral superiority or purity or failure to find a suitable partner, that asexuality is an immature state they will “grow out of”, that asexuality is a description of action or a preference, that asexuality is unnatural or unhealthy or has to be a symptom of something else, etc.
Asexuality has been shown in the media in a negative light for decades, reflecting the idea that (for various reasons steeped in classism and racism) any woman who wasn’t willing to marry and procreate was a threat to the status quo, as seen in this 1955 book that notes: “Women who did not marry incurred political and social scorn for another reason. The influx of eastern and southern European immigrants in the United States pushed the question into eugenic terms–the wrong people were reproducing. Educated women came primarily from white middle- and upper-class stock, the most desired element by dominant social norms. When these women refused to marry and reproduce, they forced a new concern into the public discourse. it is not a coincidence that the stereotypical asexual unmarried older woman emerged at this time as a source of popular humor.”
Some people in some religions are very explicit about hating asexuals specifically because they are asexual, seeing asexuality as “a perversion akin to homosexuality and bestiality”.
Other religions see asexuals as actually sinful if they choose not to have sex with their spouse.
While not every member of every religion looks down on asexuals, many people in portions of various religions choose to view asexuals negatively.
Some people even recommend asexuals avoid being in a relationship with non-asexuals and assert that “promoting and trying to spread” asexuality, or behaving in an asexual manner, is wrong or unhealthy.
Because of these religious beliefs about asexuality, that also opens up asexuals to discrimination in various legal ways, including (but not limited to) things like the new adoption bill in Texas.
Asexuality was implicitly pathologized until very recently, and even now, the DSM-V states that a diagnosis of HSDD may not be given only if the patient has a preexisting knowledge of asexuality and chooses to ID that way.
TL;DR:
Asexuals have long been considered part of the bisexual community. When people used to talk about bisexuals, it included asexuals because asexuals were the bisexuals too. Bisexual history is asexual history.
Asexuals have also long been considered as a stand-alone orientation that was part of larger non-straight communities and could be studied in comparison to other sexual orientations.
Asexuals face many of the same issues that other marginalized orientations face as well as issues specific to their orientation. These include erasure, medicalization, misidentification, harassment, rape specifically targeted at them for being asexual, and religious intolerance, to name just a few.
None of this is exhaustive. There are more sources to be found and studied.
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sunflower
This is SO beautiful
Why are we still here.. just to suffer..
If you hate pewdiepie please block me
I don't give a fuck how you feel about PewDiePie
If you're actively celebrating because him and his wife got robbed, you're fucking disgusting. I just hope people don't treat you the same way when karma inevitably bites you on your ass
I'm sorry but in light of something that's happened recently to a certain youtuber I feel like I have to say this...
It's okay to not like someone. It's okay to not agree with someone.
But wishing harm onto them and their family is fucking disgusting and deserving of shame.
people who still hate-post about pewdiepie in fucking 2019 clearly have no idea what his channel is like now. the man fucking plays minecraft, alright? he plays minecraft and he interacts with fans and he gets advice on how to do certain things in the game. it's wholesome and positive and everyone is helping others and being creative and having fun. we aren't nazis bowing down to our leader, we're normal people watching a guy play a fun game. get over yourselves
I’m trying new methods for my art to see how it looks. you might not be able to tell (Or you might be able to I dunno)
plot twist:
THE APPLE DONT FALL FAR!!!!!!!
yo this shit ain’t excusable, but the time stamp on the tweet has been removed. this could have been from like 5 years ago. that does NOT make it okay, but it does mean that it’s possible she learned that shit from her father, and now, has realized that it is harmful.
does it make it okay? no.
does it mean anyone has to forgive her? no.
but it does mean she might have grown and changed from this, and it doesn’t make her words about her dad any less valid. i think it’s pretty dope she put her dad on blast for his racism when the media was tryinna go all “blue lives matter” – putting herself into scrutiny when she didn’t have to. idk. just some shit to think about – idk when this pic is from (cuz it seems like somebody intentionally removed the time stamp…) but not all people need to be cancelled cuz they did/said dumb/problematic/bigoted shit as a kid.
@token-white-friend
u know what, u right.
people are allowed to grow and learn from their past.
its december third and i just gotta ask all of you one question
this meme is only a year old and yet it still feels like its been half a decade since the last time ive seen this image
it is actually disturbing to see some of the shit people have said about Felix, about him deserving the robbery, about how they hope he dies, celebrating someone elses misfortune.
I mean, it’s literally disturbing on a level I can’t even express, this is disgusting.
Do better, tumblr.
Pewdiepie purposefully misgendered people and has spilt Nazi propaganda many times
Oh? And I know you read that from an article too because ONE he didn’t purposefully misgender ONE PERSON, he made an honest mistake and if you actually knew he is very pro LGBTQ, but you didn’t because you read an article and was like “seEmS LeGiT.” TWO he has never done Nazi propaganda, he promoted a smaller YouTube channel that had Nazi Propaganda and didn’t even know, he only mentioned the channel because it had an anime video he liked. He even stated that in the video when he’s promoting him lmfao. Like that I get he should have been more careful with but it was an honest mistake.
Like honestly people make dumbass mistakes like this all the time, only difference is a whole audience is watching his every move to see if he fucks up. You guys literally have nothing better to do then to harass a man. Oh but when he does something good y’all are fucking quiet
You guys are literally the boomers of our generation lmfao. Like are you really believing everything you read from an article? Ay dios...
Even if you hate the guy, you don’t just wish bad on him, or that he’s dead. I hate people as bad as Trump and even then I don’t go wishing harm on him or people who support him. I cannot believe you are trying to make anything people are saying justifiable. Death threats aren’t justifiable, it’s fucking illegal.
Also next time, send a message publicly lmao
I’m actually legitimately posted about the whole Pewdiepie being robbed situation.
The fact that people would support somebody’s house being robbed is absolutely disgusting. Is it really that popular to be an asshole now? I get it, he said the n word once and fucked up a few times, but get this-HE APOLOGIZED. He apologized and did his best to remedy those mistakes, which you all would know if you’ve seen his actual videos instead of reading one article about it on Vox.
Either way, getting robbed is still a horrible breach of privacy and an insanely personal invasion. It’s not something that should be condoned. But hey, what do I expect from the site that glamorizes shoplifting and communism?
I’m not going to apologize for my tone. I’ve seen so many antis on here who have said way, way worse and have been CELEBRATED for it. You all need mental help. You all need to get out of this toxic cycle of hating everybody who’s a rich, straight white man. You all need to start thinking critically about the media you consume.
Until then?
If you’ve celebrated the robbery in any way, fucking unfollow me. I don’t want to be associated with you. Learn to get some goddamned empathy, and then you can come back.
I’m been getting really pissed about how people are saying they are happy that Felix got rob. I’ve have pretty good friend of mine who got rob years ago and let me say it’s something that still effects them to this day. It’s about the stuff that’s been stolen but the security and privacy of your own home being violated. It’s the most heart breaking thing not being safe in your home. It’s something that friend has to go through, and not feeling safe in your own home is a heart braking thing.
Exactly, thank you. Honestly, people are so fucking sick on this site sometimes. Like. People show themselves as so kind but really, all these people who are taking JOY out of someone else's suffering and sadness, they're really just horrible people.
Felix and Marzi’s house got robbed and twitter reacts exactly how you’d expect, by shamelessly praising the robber and saying it’s okay because A) they’re millionaires or B) “I think he said the N-word once years ago maybe idk.”
And then they compare the two situations, as if it’s even remotely comparable to suggest that someone breaking into your home and stealing your shit is even closely equivalent to saying the N-word once and apologizing after.
He could’ve said the word thousands of times and it still wouldn’t be comparable to the loss of valued personal items and the discomfort of knowing someone was in your home when they shouldn’t be.
And while I don’t necessarily agree with this sentiment, it’s hard to look at the folks cheering about this and not agree with the people commenting on those posts with “I hope you get robbed”, because frankly all you’re doing is asking to be robbed and be given zero sympathy for it.
This^^
If you are genuinely happy that somebody is experiencing misfortune and feel the need to celebrate about it, I have lost respect for you.
