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Comment on TW: acephobia by slightlymetaphysical

slightlymetaphysical — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 12:28:51 +0000

What minority exactly? Because if it’s asexuality, that doesn’t even make sense. If it’s ‘LGBTQPPAAIU+’ then… well, it still doesn’t make sense. That’s not a minority, it’s a loose grouping of all gender and sexual orientation minorities, which ace is definitely part of. But at least I can sorta understand where they might be coming from.

Comment on TW: acephobia by Asexual Sexologist (@AceSexologist)

Asexual Sexologist (@AceSexologist) — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 21:19:08 +0000

That makes me feel so much better! I was checking my mail from my phone before I got out of bed (I’m not addicted, I could quite any time…) so this was literally the first thing I read this morning and it made my head hurt to see this on your blog so glad to confirm that it was dry sarcasm.

It was so… just unbelievable to be having a discussion in an ace forming with another ace reading their insistence that heteroromantic aces are just trying to be part of a minority that they don’t really belong to etc. Just… jaw dropping. At least I have the comfort of knowing that the entire world hasn’t turned upside down and you’re still reasonable!

Comment on TW: acephobia by slightlymetaphysical

slightlymetaphysical — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 13:56:59 +0000

Yes, this is sarcasm, but no, this is a conversation which happens often. I *believe* a lot less so nowadays, just because we don’t respond any more, but there’s a lot of places (tumblr specifically) where there’s been a massive attack on heteroromantic people, saying they shouldn’t identify as queer, along with an awful lot of ignoring asexuality and reducing people to their romantic orientations and, well, basically everything I’ve said in the above post is a paraphrase of something which I’ve seen multiple people actually say.

It makes me sad that some aces are getting in on this as well. I hate the idea that aces should be forced to identify as whatever their romantic orientation is, vehemently. It’s just a way of pretending asexuals don’t exist.

Comment on TW: acephobia by Asexual Sexologist (@AceSexologist)

Asexual Sexologist (@AceSexologist) — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 13:35:45 +0000

….Please tell me this is sarcasm or that you’re mocking someone who posted something like this…. I haven’t been over here in a while so maybe there’s some kind of long-running joke I’m missing or maybe it’s too early and I’ve just missed the obvious joke and I’ll laugh later…? Because I just came from a forum where aces were telling other aces they should just identify as heterosexual and I don’t really want to believe that that’s a conversation I’ll have to have very often…

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Comment on Milking it by An Argument for Offline Organization (From a Blogger on the Internet) | The Asexual Agenda

Mon, 10 Sep 2012 10:00:55 +0000

[...] downside is that approaching LGBTQA groups can be pretty scary. My personal opinion is that most campus groups are likely to be friendly to aces, but I have no experience with non-campus-affiliated groups. This might therefore be a harder [...]

Comment on Said the bad asexual fairy: by Wonktnodi

Wonktnodi — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 13:01:03 +0000

Hi, I love the image and what it says about the asexual community!
I have a blog where I translate interesting English posts about asexuality into French: http://asexualite-underground.blogspot.fr I would like to repost your image (without modifying it) with a translation, and you will of course be credited as the author and linked. Are you okay with this ? :)

Comment on Off-AVEN by slightlymetaphysical

slightlymetaphysical — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 12:01:39 +0000

Also, just in case you don’t see it, I’ve written you something: http://asexualcuriosities.wordpress.com/2012/09/07/queerplatonics-for-the-non-platonic/

Comment on Off-AVEN by slightlymetaphysical

slightlymetaphysical — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 07:58:32 +0000

There is: https://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?msid=218059011298551683250.0004c4612bbe3ac9cc260&msa=0&ie=UTF8&t=m&ll=52.375599,-2.922363&spn=7.850114,19.753418&source=embed

We just need to use it more.

Comment on Off-AVEN by nextstepcake

nextstepcake — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 23:52:24 +0000

I was initially excited about the idea of meetup.com as a place for organizing asexual groups too, but it turns out that to have your meetings featured you have to pay a regular monthly fee – which not all meetup groups will want to/be able to pay for, so I think there really needs to be a free alternative.