Asexual Census 2011

[swankivy]

I thought some of you guys might be interested to see the results of the Asexual Census (I posted a link back when it was going on). I should reiterate that I didn't design this or help administer it, though I was one of the respondents. (They had thousands of respondents! This data is cool, despite the fact that of course it was a survey that

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[spacehawk]

Wow, they don't have a "born before 1986" category?

The asexual community online is young.

[swankivy]

No, they do. They just posted the most popular answers up to the top ten most answered if it was a write-in. I believe we just keyed in our birth years. I answered the survey and I was born in 1978.

[spacehawk]

I know the survey did -- I took it -- but I was shocked that they didn't report a percentage for "before 1986".

[swankivy]

Oh, you mean the RESPONDENTS only began having birth years popular enough to appear in the results at 1986. You know, I was thinking they should note that--I think this data would actually be much more useful in ranges, not in individual birth years.

[spacehawk]

OK, now that I've seen the videos

[swankivy]

Glad you like.

I actually don't own the "My Sexual Preference Is Not You" shirt--I just saw it online--but the "gay robot" shirt is a reference to Red vs. Blue, a funny web show I got into years ago, and they put some of the characters' funniest lines on shirts. I got it on their website. I don't know where the "different" one came from because it was a holiday gift a couple years ago

[spacehawk]

OK, I understand your intent better now

[swankivy]

Yes, the red text is my "translation" of what the author of the article was apparently trying to tell the audience through an otherwise irrelevant physical description of me. (Further illustrating the point, that is: the article author apparently thought the audience would be more likely to take me seriously if she could make sure they wouldn't assume I was ugly.)

And yeah, the so-called gold-star asexual is basically the most privileged among us. (Especially since a lot of the things that privilege us are overall privileges too.) Regarding race among asexuals, I haven't seen race actually brought up in the whole unassailable phenomenon, so I didn't directly address it, but as an aside my little smorgasbord of asexual "examples" did include both an asexual of color and a rather international group. Interestingly, the director and concept-creator of (A)sexual is a black woman. She has a whole other series that focuses on race-related matters, so I wonder if she considered this.

[the_vulture]

I rather liked the article; it was entertaining, yet concise. I'd be linking it in my FB account as a good Asexuality 101, if it wasn't on a page flashing sex toy ads. :P

I only got through the first part of The Unassailable Asexual presentation, though; I found it to be a little rambly.

[swankivy]

Thanks for the compliments, and yeah, I can't do anything about the fact that the magazine sells sex toys and wants you to know it. :) Er, they also pay me in sex toys.

Half-hour-long presentations aren't for everyone. Sometimes I decide to deal with the tradeoff of conciseness vs. comprehensiveness by just saying screw it, I'm going to cover as much as I can, and somebody somewhere will be happy I said it. (I actually even had to cut somewhat to get it this short. Heh.)

[the_vulture]

They pay you in sex toys? That's kinda awesome, actually. XD

[swankivy]

They pay me in credit to the Good Vibes store, technically. I've never cashed any of it in, primarily because what am I gonna do with vibrators, but if I ever feel like it, perhaps I could order penis-shaped gummy candy in gigantic quantities?