Busted!
From Cracked: 6 Weird Ways the World Looks Different When You're Asexual.
. . . yup. Pretty much. Some of this has happened in my own life, including an unfortunate encounter with a gynecologist who resembled my hated sixth-grade teacher in more ways than just the physical. (The sixth-grade teacher was a woman who I think became a teacher not because she liked children -- she really really didn't -- but because she was of an age where having any career at all in her twenties would have meant either teaching or secretarial work. She went on to make the lives of many many years' worth of twelve-year-olds miserable before retraining as, of all things, a social worker.)
The thing that puzzles me, though, is this. On the second page of the article, it quotes a study of Canadian undergraduates and random internet guys that seems to indicate that these two groups would be less likely to rent an apartment to asexuals. All well and bad, but . . . how would they know? Seriously, when does that particular topic come up during apartment rental conversations?
I get how potential landlords could find out about a prospective tenant's homosexuality, particularly if this involves a same-sex couple trying to rent a one-bedroom apartment, but you'd really have to go digging to find out that your prospective tenant is asexual. I've rented several apartments in my life, and the major question that the landlords are interested in is not "who will you be sleeping with in this apartment?" but "will you have the rent money available on the first of the month?" Seriously, who asks these questions, and what kind of shitholes are they offering for rent?
. . . yup. Pretty much. Some of this has happened in my own life, including an unfortunate encounter with a gynecologist who resembled my hated sixth-grade teacher in more ways than just the physical. (The sixth-grade teacher was a woman who I think became a teacher not because she liked children -- she really really didn't -- but because she was of an age where having any career at all in her twenties would have meant either teaching or secretarial work. She went on to make the lives of many many years' worth of twelve-year-olds miserable before retraining as, of all things, a social worker.)
The thing that puzzles me, though, is this. On the second page of the article, it quotes a study of Canadian undergraduates and random internet guys that seems to indicate that these two groups would be less likely to rent an apartment to asexuals. All well and bad, but . . . how would they know? Seriously, when does that particular topic come up during apartment rental conversations?
I get how potential landlords could find out about a prospective tenant's homosexuality, particularly if this involves a same-sex couple trying to rent a one-bedroom apartment, but you'd really have to go digging to find out that your prospective tenant is asexual. I've rented several apartments in my life, and the major question that the landlords are interested in is not "who will you be sleeping with in this apartment?" but "will you have the rent money available on the first of the month?" Seriously, who asks these questions, and what kind of shitholes are they offering for rent?