Delightful.
Author's Note: This lengthy diatribe was inspired by a
sf-drama post -- a forum I do not attend, nor do I desire becoming invested in -- which elicited a severe twitch of irritation within me. I, very reluctantly, said nothing. After all, why would I, somebody who devotes massive amounts of their time into Dare-I-Say-PC research, ever want to
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You've got it covered perfectly here."I admit, I'd know more what it's like for a woman to be asexual and the resulting stigma and obsession with 'fixing' her (or turning everything she says into something she doesn't mean) and 'finding' things with their confirmation biases, but I don't know much about the stigma a man would face. I'm trying to think."
I've known more male asexuals than female ones, oddly. I wouldn't suggest their discrimination is lesser or worse, but it's certainly a unique genre of loathing. They face similar pathologising as women do, but face less permissibility -- after all, within patriarchal parameters, women are natural receptacles, are notoriously "harder to please", and more prone to frigidity. Men, on the other hand, are expected to be abundant in !TESTOSTERONE!, which is automatically affiliated with aggression and lust (and interestingly, this invokes to our past discussion about how violence and sex are entwined, to the point where the violence is invisible). So, men are more likely to be defaulted into "obviously homosexual" status, whereas women are more likely to be categorized in terms of abuse or dysfunction. But this is only anecdotal.
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