Nah bro, it’s the way you lot present your arguments that lights a fire under my ass, and how I’ve yet to see a single post out of any of you that acknowledges that cis het aces are not only a minority in our community, the vast majority of them don’t even want to use the queer label. In your arguments, you all act as though there are cis het aces storming the castle and pounding on the doors and that cis het aces are the majority in our community, when in fact, neither is true.
Excuse me but what part of “One cis hetero person is too many” did you not understand?
Perhaps if you would at least all get together and decide if you would like us to be white, cis, straight, and male or white, cis, straight, and female, we would take your arguments seriously. Or, alternatively, you could acknowledge that not only does the ace community police itself to a startling degree — including, yes, calling our own members out for sexism, racism, homophobia!, and transphobia (which, at least on the racism count is more than I’ve seen you and your buddies do amongst yourselves) — but we are not a monolith! In fact, we are incredibly diverse, just like any community grouped by sexuality, so maybe you could fucking make reference to that when you’re trying to justify your distaste for anyone who doesn’t feel sexual attraction.
Oh you poor things actually having to police your community. It must be so hard actually having to do work for the benefit of your community! Here, let me get you a gold star, and throw you a parade. We’ll call it the “I Try So Hard” parade. I’ll even bake you a cake. With purple icing on it and everything! Doesn’t that sound so fun? I’ll even invite all of your little friends. Then I’ll hang up the Big Bad Queer pinata, and you can just beat on that until you decide to finally grow up and realize that just because it’s hard doesn’t mean that you suddenly are free from criticism because, you know, that shit is still going on and it needs to stop.
Nice totally ignoring what I just said to you, bro, not like I was pointing out that you fuckers can’t form a complete view of the asexual community if you shook hands with every goddamn ace on the planet.
I’ll give you this, though, you did surprise me! You didn’t say a word about the abuse queer people have suffered, which, okay, that legit caught me off guard. Let me give you a gold star, the “Didn’t Make This About ACES AREN’T QUEER BECAUSE THEY AREN’T MURDERED” one. It’s extra shiny.
Pardon me, now, I have to go do something that doesn’t involve people who couldn’t shift their worldview with a lever the length of the universe and an unmoveable object as their place to stand.
I really, truly, sincerely want to know how Raumlet came off IN ANY WAY as whining, or being a martyr by asserting that yes, asexual folks have been, and are capable of calling out shit in our community?
I really truly sincerely want to see where Raumlet ever said that the ace community should be exempt from criticism?
But I really truly sincerely know that all damn day all variety of apparent radfems have been plugging their goddamn ears when trans* asexual WOC have been telling them their arguments and assumptions about the ace community are racist and contributing to race and trans* erasure? By crying “BUT IT’S NOT US WHO ARE BEING OPPRESSIVE DOUCHESACKS IT’S THE PEOPLE IN YOUR ASEXUAL COMMUNITY WHY WON’T YOU LISTEN TO ME AND LET ME CONGRATULATE YOU ON YOUR STRENGTH WHEN YOU HAVE CLEARY SAID SEVERAL TIMES YOU WANT NONE OF IT” no less!
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Vilhelm Hammershoi, Woman in an Interior (1900-09)
“There is an idea in Finland that it is good to sit in silence as the light goes, to observe nightfall as a time of contemplation - ‘pitaa hamaraa’, ‘keeping the twilight’”. - Peter Davidson, The Idea of North
