Do new ace people these days know about black rings?
uhh, i don’t.
yeah! there’s a thing where ace people can wear a black ring on the middle finger of their right hand as a sign to show others that they’re ace!
(I couldn’t find a version of this pic without the bottom text, sorry)
I had no idea this was falling out of common knowledge. Boost to get it rolling again! Quick tip from an ace who’s been wearing the black ring for like five plus years now and has gone through several either broken or too scratched to wear- save yourself the trouble, go straight for ceramic.
No you heathen, it’s out of practice because it never belonged to your community. It was never an ace thing. Those are called Equality Rings, they were worn as a promise that the wearer wouldn’t get married until gay marriage was legal. This also extended to bisexual and trans people. Stop trying to co-opt gay history and rebrand it as something for ace people.
(still)
Huh, no one has heard of this and suddenly over the past day or two, I’ve seen multiple blogs say it out of nowhere, with nothing to back it up?
Exclusionists have a habit of doing this, do you think they plan it, or are they a hivemind?
Bigot bias really is a wonderful, hideous thing. Thankfully the most recent replies call that addition out for the unfounded bullshit it is, but if you scroll up in the notes, there’s a lot of people just. Accepting this, no questions asked. Because they already think so badly of ace people and their communities that they want to believe it despite coming from literally nowhere.
And this isn’t the first time this has happened.
The term “a-spec” went through the same exact bullshit! Despite having no source aside from the claims of a group of exclusionists, and even that was refuted by the entire rest of the autistic community and a simple google search.
And that this reply would be added right after somebody mentions the damage aphobes do to online ace communities?? The specific damage of silencing ace people about their community? Huh. Isn’t that just a hilarious coincidence?
Anyway, black rings on the middle finger have been an ace community thing for the past 14 years, and I actually have a source,
which not only exactly dates the development of the symbol, but also shows the exact process of how the community came up with it. In fact, if you read through the thread, there’s people already on page 2 discussing how to implement it without infringing on parallel communities’ symbols (like triangles, or lesbians’ own secret rings).
So who’s actually the one “co-opting history” here??




























