The rise of asexual representation
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The Rise of Asexual Representation
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Is it easier to explain asexuality in a language with multiple words for love?
It’s a trope that Romance languages have all these different words for love, but English has just one. That one word is often translated to the word for romantic love in the other language, even if that is not what a native speaker would use. Similarly, sexual attraction often gets conflated with love. Do people using a language other than English have an easier time getting people to understand the difference?
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It’s a trope that Romance languages have all these different words for love, but English has just one. That one word is often translated to the word for romantic love in the other language, even if that is not what a native speaker would use. Similarly, sexual attraction often gets conflated with love. Do people using a language other than English have an easier time getting people to understand the difference?
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Is it easier to explain asexuality in a language with multiple...
It’s a trope that Romance languages have all these different words for love, but English has just one. That one word is often translated to the...
3 months ago i posted some art i made and i said in the title that im bisexual. well i realized last weekend that im ace. oh yeah also here is some new art i made.
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My Aunt Finally Accepts My Asexuality
My dad was raised in a very traditional Hispanic household. He deviated away from some of the traditional views, gender norms being one of them. He never expected me to be a baby-making machine that stayed home and cooked and cleaned all day. Which is good, because I'm sex-repulsed and I barely cook decent food for myself.
My Tia, his sister, has hounded me about getting a man and having kids FOR 13 YEARS. She refused to accept that I just don't want to have sex, ergo not have children, and she even stopped speaking to me for some time while she "prayed for God to cure me."
She messaged me and she was being pleasant, so I took the chance to call. I told her about my dogs who are the loves of my life and how I was thinking about getting guinea pigs again, and she said "Mija, let me come over and meet them if you get them. You sound so happy; it's okay if your babies have fur. That's all you need if you're happy."
I know it doesn't sound like much, but trust me, that's an apology/I love you/I respect you all in one. She even told me that she was asking Google Siri (she has an Android but literally everything to her is Siri) questions about asexuality to try to understand me better.
Sorry that this is a little long, but I'm so excited that I'm going to burst if I don't let it out somehow!
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My dad was raised in a very traditional Hispanic household. He deviated away from some of the traditional views, gender norms being one of them. He never expected me to be a baby-making machine that stayed home and cooked and cleaned all day. Which is good, because I'm sex-repulsed and I barely cook decent food for myself.
My Tia, his sister, has hounded me about getting a man and having kids FOR 13 YEARS. She refused to accept that I just don't want to have sex, ergo not have children, and she even stopped speaking to me for some time while she "prayed for God to cure me."
She messaged me and she was being pleasant, so I took the chance to call. I told her about my dogs who are the loves of my life and how I was thinking about getting guinea pigs again, and she said "Mija, let me come over and meet them if you get them. You sound so happy; it's okay if your babies have fur. That's all you need if you're happy."
I know it doesn't sound like much, but trust me, that's an apology/I love you/I respect you all in one. She even told me that she was asking Google Siri (she has an Android but literally everything to her is Siri) questions about asexuality to try to understand me better.
Sorry that this is a little long, but I'm so excited that I'm going to burst if I don't let it out somehow!
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My Aunt Finally Accepts My Asexuality
My dad was raised in a very traditional Hispanic household. He deviated away from some of the traditional views, gender norms being one of them....
For the love of god people, hot is a temperature.
Hot is an insulting compliment. It is a fricken temperature. Call me aesthetically pleasing. Call me a work of art. Hot? Stop being lazy.
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Hot is an insulting compliment. It is a fricken temperature. Call me aesthetically pleasing. Call me a work of art. Hot? Stop being lazy.
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For the love of god people, hot is a temperature.
Hot is an insulting compliment. It is a fricken temperature. Call me aesthetically pleasing. Call me a work of art. Hot? Stop being lazy.
My ace Friendly Doctor!
So I’ve had the same doctor for my entire life, he was nice, good and generally competent medicine. The one thing that somewhat irritated me was that he would always give me the long sex talk, even though I told him I wasn’t sexually active. It wasn’t a huge deal but it was a bit annoying as that stuff tends to gross me out.
Anyways he retired and now I have a new doctor, despite that she is like 60 when we got to the part about sex she was like “Are you attracted to men, women, both or nether?” This just made me so happy because my previous doctor never asked, when I said neither, she responded with ”Great, then as long as you’re not sexually active we can skip this whole section”
It’s so great to have asexuality normalized for things like this, it just made me so happy I had to share!
(and yes, it was also nice to not have to hear a five minute speech about condoms)
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So I’ve had the same doctor for my entire life, he was nice, good and generally competent medicine. The one thing that somewhat irritated me was that he would always give me the long sex talk, even though I told him I wasn’t sexually active. It wasn’t a huge deal but it was a bit annoying as that stuff tends to gross me out.
Anyways he retired and now I have a new doctor, despite that she is like 60 when we got to the part about sex she was like “Are you attracted to men, women, both or nether?” This just made me so happy because my previous doctor never asked, when I said neither, she responded with ”Great, then as long as you’re not sexually active we can skip this whole section”
It’s so great to have asexuality normalized for things like this, it just made me so happy I had to share!
(and yes, it was also nice to not have to hear a five minute speech about condoms)
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My ace Friendly Doctor!
So I’ve had the same doctor for my entire life, he was nice, good and generally competent medicine. The one thing that somewhat irritated me was...
I was accused of racism because I said i was asexual.
There is this girl in my US history class and her(16F) and i(17M) was texting for a long time. There wasn’t anything romantic or sexual between us(at least i didn’t think there were any) i thought we were friends and having normal conversations that friends would have. But this last week she started acting weird and asking me questions like “would you ever shave your mustache for me?” etc. when she finally told me that she wanted to kiss me in a very disgusting way, i was very surprised and shocked. After politely refusing her and explaining that i was asexual, she freaked out and thought I was doing it because she was ugly. apparently she told on me to the school counselor that i made a racial comment about her ethnicity in the US history class while going through the reconstruction topic. The weird thing is; my counselor did not listen to my side of the story and forced me to apologize to her just to be done with this event.
Sorry if my english is bad. Have a nice week people.
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There is this girl in my US history class and her(16F) and i(17M) was texting for a long time. There wasn’t anything romantic or sexual between us(at least i didn’t think there were any) i thought we were friends and having normal conversations that friends would have. But this last week she started acting weird and asking me questions like “would you ever shave your mustache for me?” etc. when she finally told me that she wanted to kiss me in a very disgusting way, i was very surprised and shocked. After politely refusing her and explaining that i was asexual, she freaked out and thought I was doing it because she was ugly. apparently she told on me to the school counselor that i made a racial comment about her ethnicity in the US history class while going through the reconstruction topic. The weird thing is; my counselor did not listen to my side of the story and forced me to apologize to her just to be done with this event.
Sorry if my english is bad. Have a nice week people.
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I was accused of racism because I said i was asexual.
There is this girl in my US history class and her(16F) and i(17M) was texting for a long time. There wasn’t anything romantic or sexual between...
Sounds absolutely stunning (also wasn’t sure what flair to use so I used this one… I’ll change it if needed)
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Ah yes, desires are definitely induced by our DNA... what do cishets like to say again? "basic biology"?
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I MET ANOTHER ASEXUAL GUY AND WE'RE ROMANTICALLY SO COMPATIBLE
We met on tinder, which is a soul destroying place for an ace to be, and instantly had such a good connection. He came over to my place this evening and we sat in my bed and talked for hours about religion and the universe and sexuality and toxic masculinity and mental health and he didn't try and kiss me or have sex (!!!!). We're so compatible with spirituality, life goals, and HE HAS 3 CATS
I'm so excited I had kind of given up on finding someone like him 🥺 I know it feels like you're the only asexual in the world sometimes but there are others out there!!
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We met on tinder, which is a soul destroying place for an ace to be, and instantly had such a good connection. He came over to my place this evening and we sat in my bed and talked for hours about religion and the universe and sexuality and toxic masculinity and mental health and he didn't try and kiss me or have sex (!!!!). We're so compatible with spirituality, life goals, and HE HAS 3 CATS
I'm so excited I had kind of given up on finding someone like him 🥺 I know it feels like you're the only asexual in the world sometimes but there are others out there!!
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I MET ANOTHER ASEXUAL GUY AND WE'RE ROMANTICALLY SO COMPATIBLE
We met on tinder, which is a soul destroying place for an ace to be, and instantly had such a good connection. He came over to my place this...