Fuck this.
........ you know what I really fucking hate?
Gatekeepers. Pretty much all of them.
"You're not queer enough!"
"Your oppression isn't the same!"
"You're not trans* enough!"
"You can't dye your hair!"
"You can't wear makeup!"
"You can't wear form-fitting clothes!"
"Your disability isn't visible enough to participate in this discussion!"
"YOU DON'T EXIST."
You know what I don't need in my life? Sexual people explaining asexuality to me, and what kinds of oppression/privilege it entails or doesn't entail in your esteemed opinion as a sexual.*
When you equate being an aromantic asexual to being straight, "just without having sex", that's just utterly inane.
It's called ERASURE. See also: PRIVILEGE, YOURS.
* = Because you're obviously the expert on this topic, having had sex and/or sexual desires at some point, and also spending some time of your life not having sex, which is totes the same as not experiencing sexual attraction or desire!
.... yeah, ontd_feminism is being failtastic again.
mercredigirl has made a good response here.
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Gatekeepers. Pretty much all of them.
"You're not queer enough!"
"Your oppression isn't the same!"
"You're not trans* enough!"
"You can't dye your hair!"
"You can't wear makeup!"
"You can't wear form-fitting clothes!"
"Your disability isn't visible enough to participate in this discussion!"
"YOU DON'T EXIST."
You know what I don't need in my life? Sexual people explaining asexuality to me, and what kinds of oppression/privilege it entails or doesn't entail in your esteemed opinion as a sexual.*
When you equate being an aromantic asexual to being straight, "just without having sex", that's just utterly inane.
It's called ERASURE. See also: PRIVILEGE, YOURS.
* = Because you're obviously the expert on this topic, having had sex and/or sexual desires at some point, and also spending some time of your life not having sex, which is totes the same as not experiencing sexual attraction or desire!
.... yeah, ontd_feminism is being failtastic again.
mercredigirl has made a good response here.
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