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peace-out-little-munchkins:

using the label asexual even if you’re demisexual or anything else on the ace spectrum because you feel like it fits you more is valid and good.

herefortheace:

a-polite-melody:

disk–horse:

jacifruit:

the worst thing about the whole “aromantic allosexual (read: heterosexual) men take advantage of women!!” idea is that it assumes that women are so helpless and lovesick, that they cannot consent to strictly sexual relationships, that apparently no woman has ever wanted just sex with no strings attached

It also erases aromatic gay men

Also… aromantic women exist, throwing even more of a wrench into their whole idea there.

The sexualizing of non-ace aros involved (including women no matter what ppl may claim) is also bizarre and nasty, as if non-ace aros only care about sex and nothing else (including the personhood of others) like. Isn’t that what the anti-ace/aro crowd claims aces here assume about non-aces, and use as justification to shit on aces+aros as a whole? But I forgot sex-shaming and sexualizing others is okay as long as it’s done by ppl who hate aces+aros

selectivelyserious:

Saying it’s okay to not feel sexual attraction is not the same as saying that feeling sexual attraction is dirty and wrong.

Identifying as asexual isn’t the same as calling other people dirty for feeling sexual attraction.

Identifying as asexual doesn’t mean that you’re sexualising other people.

Asexuality is not a judgement on other people.

You’re not bad for identifying as ace.

fudisi-space-spinster:

herefortheace:

discourse-it-up:

herefortheace:

Do not trust anyone who talks as though aces and aros inherently have privilege.

Do not trust them for a second

If you have stepped outside once within your life you’d know that aros/aces benefit from conservative movements promoting abstinence. Not to mention that aros/aces haven’t been so much as mentioned in the legislative world whereas sga people and trans people have put up with the AIDS crisis, stonewall, pulse, bathroom bills, anti-sodomy laws, etc.

omg one of them outright said it again

Aces and aros do not benefit from the promotion of abstinence by conservatives, are you god damn kidding me? Like I really want to see the explanation for that, it’s wild when ppl try to pull it with aces but I think this is the first time someone outright included aros in the bullshit. This is amazing.

And uh regarding the last part, you realize I said aces and aros, as groups, don’t “inherently” have privilege, right? That I talked about aces and aros in general? And that you’re doing it too? And that ace/aro does not mean cis+hetero?

But the first part of your response is so wild omg.

Aces and aros do not have privilege for being ace/aro holy shit this is absurd

I guess that kinda “conservative abstinence laws/education benefit aces/aros” comes from the “aces don’t have sex and aros don’t have feelings” attitude from 2009 memes that aphobes like to regurgitate every time they criticise “Ace Tumblr TM”

I’m pretty convinced at this point aphobes stick their fingers in their ears and scream lalalala loudly whenever aces and aros point out that their orientation is about who they’re attracted to, not whether or not they like sex or physical affection, which is why shit like this keeps popping up.

aro-aceplace:

This is for all the non-binary aros and aces, the agender, bigender, demigender, tri, poly, flux, fluid genders and any other non-binary genders.

Non-binary aros and aces are wonderful and valid.

fudisi-space-spinster:

upallnightogetloki:

scotty-approved:

“asexuals are only 1% of the population so they don’t matter”

wow yeah so theres only 72 million asexual people yeah you’re right like none at all ha ha

You know who else is 1-2% of the world population?

Redheads.

Yet somehow it’s not all that hard to put a “fiery” redhead in almost every fucking thing. Why? Because they matter.

If asexuals made up their own country then, by population size, out of the 196 countries in the world, the Asexual Nation would rank number NINETEEN right after Turkey and would bump the DRC down to twenty.

That’s just how many of us there are. Our hypothetical country would have more people in it than 90% of the current countries in the world.

But we don’t matter?

Bullshit.

Representation matters.

We matter.

All 72 million of us.

So let’s not play this fucking game, ok?

People act like finding asexuals in our massive population is such a laborious task there’s no point giving us representation since we’re so invisible

I have met at least three other people who’ve confirmed they’re ace at uni, and I’ve known at least one other then me back home. I could easily have met other ace people without knowing

We exist and we’re more prevalent then you know. We deserve representation too.