Found this on Pinterest and thought to share it here with sex indifferent/favorable aces :D
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It's nice to see Snapchat including ace among the other pride flagsš
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I havent eaten in like 12 hours and that's what it's like rn
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A great queer coded movie and a terrible pun. Happy pride month!
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I got an ace ring with the LGBT+ flag on the inside!
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This is a rant about the state of the community
Okay, so apparently I'm mask off at like 4 AM because I was mindlessly scrolling reddit and once again kept hitting these horrible comments about asexuality in this fucking forum. Like, this has been something that's been bothering me off and on for the past couple of years.
I'm 28. Yeah, I get it, I'm old compared to a lot of people I'm sure. Fine, whatever, I don't care. In this instance, my age is actually important because I first learned about asexuality and connected with it when I was 18. Also known as when I joined tumblr and fandom in general. Back then, the discussion of asexuality was clear: it's a lack of sexual attraction, that a lot of ace people are sex neutral or indifferent, but you can have a libido and seek out the act. It's just the lack of attraction that's important.
Sure, there were some people that acted like they were special because they were sex repulsed, but they were the minority. It was through asexuality and asexual spaces I was able. to safely begin exploring the concept of sex and not be quite so terrified of it as the baby Baptist closeted queer me was. And so when I started HRT and gained a bit of a libido it wasn't quite so traumatic.
I'm still asexual and generally sex repulsed. My experiences have changed how I view sex but there's still trauma for me to work through before I feel safe with a partner. And yet when I go to seek information online from other aces, or to even just look at memes, I'm overwhelmed by the amount of misinformation and the feeling of "I'm special because I don't like sex uwu" I've seen in various forums.
And I can't help but wonder if this is in part tied to the purity culture rise I've seen in fandom. The gatekeeping and purity policing is so frustrating. I don't know why those same standards I grew up with and finally escaped when I turned 18 is suddenly cropping up everywhere online by kids and adults that claim to be progressive.
I don't know. My anger is gone all at once. I'm just tired y'all. What's happened to the specificity? Why are aces trotting out the lie that "aces don't have sex"? We're hurting people with this misinformation.
https://redd.it/o68sc7
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Okay, so apparently I'm mask off at like 4 AM because I was mindlessly scrolling reddit and once again kept hitting these horrible comments about asexuality in this fucking forum. Like, this has been something that's been bothering me off and on for the past couple of years.
I'm 28. Yeah, I get it, I'm old compared to a lot of people I'm sure. Fine, whatever, I don't care. In this instance, my age is actually important because I first learned about asexuality and connected with it when I was 18. Also known as when I joined tumblr and fandom in general. Back then, the discussion of asexuality was clear: it's a lack of sexual attraction, that a lot of ace people are sex neutral or indifferent, but you can have a libido and seek out the act. It's just the lack of attraction that's important.
Sure, there were some people that acted like they were special because they were sex repulsed, but they were the minority. It was through asexuality and asexual spaces I was able. to safely begin exploring the concept of sex and not be quite so terrified of it as the baby Baptist closeted queer me was. And so when I started HRT and gained a bit of a libido it wasn't quite so traumatic.
I'm still asexual and generally sex repulsed. My experiences have changed how I view sex but there's still trauma for me to work through before I feel safe with a partner. And yet when I go to seek information online from other aces, or to even just look at memes, I'm overwhelmed by the amount of misinformation and the feeling of "I'm special because I don't like sex uwu" I've seen in various forums.
And I can't help but wonder if this is in part tied to the purity culture rise I've seen in fandom. The gatekeeping and purity policing is so frustrating. I don't know why those same standards I grew up with and finally escaped when I turned 18 is suddenly cropping up everywhere online by kids and adults that claim to be progressive.
I don't know. My anger is gone all at once. I'm just tired y'all. What's happened to the specificity? Why are aces trotting out the lie that "aces don't have sex"? We're hurting people with this misinformation.
https://redd.it/o68sc7
@asexualityonreddit
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Okay, so apparently I'm mask off at like 4 AM because I was mindlessly scrolling reddit and once again kept hitting these horrible comments about...