literally none of the ace pride month posts are about like… liberation… safety… freedom to love… they’re just “WE’RE VALID TOO” and “INCLUDE ME” and “cishets are also oppressed because my mom thought i was weird when i said i didn’t want fucky”
Crazy thought here, but maybe the reason aces are asking for validation and recognition is because the community they had a connection with until 3 years ago has started calling the validity of asexuality into question and telling them they’re no longer welcome in lgbt+ spaces
and quit with the stupid “acey no likie fuckey” trash. Nobody thinks it’s funny.
yall forced yourselves in… there’s absolutely zero fucking historical alliance between lgbt ppl and aces. your community didnt even exist until aven. feel free to prove me wrong
the fuck do you mean “my community?” Does my icon look like the ace flag to you? do you automatically decide anyone who sticks up for ace people must be ace too?
maybe there’s zero alliance bc they weren’t even recognized as existing until a few years ago?
and maybe they “”“appeared”“” bc until a short time ago people viewed themselves as sick or problematic for not wanting sex?
op literally sound like people that say IN MY TIME THAT TRANS THING DIDN’T EXIST or IN MY TIME THERE WERE WAY LESS GAY PEOPLE THAT MUST BE JUST A TREND
and of course is not like ace ppl get “corrective” rape pff it’s just things from their heads
and? yall still arent oppressed. none of u have actually negated anything i said in the op other than saying that ppl other than ur moms thought u were weird. lol
rape isn’t oppression? fear of rape is safety?
also i am not ace too lol if you took ur time to read my bio you’d see I am bissexual
literally just google the sociological definition of oppression it’s really not that hard! oppression isn’t about interpersonal experiences
“Oppression isn’t about interpersonal experiences”.
What…the ever loving shit…are you talking about?
Do you not realize that interpersonal experiences are literally a foundation of oppression???? That’s literally how oppression is enacted on the level of individual interaction as well as within smaller communities.
This is literally like that fucking exclusionist who said that microaggressions are not part of oppression because they didn’t want to acknowledge their own racism. Holy shit.
Alright, I’ll take the bait.
I’m a sociologist. I am, in fact, a queer sociologist. I study sociology with an intent to help the world better understand LGBTQIAPN+ people and our experiences.
From a sociological perspective, oppression has several key traits.
Oppression must target a group.
Asexual people meet this requirement, as there is more than one single asexual on this earth. They are indeed a group.
Oppression must also have a dominant group.
Straight people are the dominant group in western culture, as regards to sexuality. I think we can all agree with that premise.
The target group must experience any or all of the following, where the dominant group does not:
Systemic abuse.
Best practices in health care still hold, to this very day, that is someone does not experience sexual attraction and is distressed by that, rather than be given affirmative therapy to come to accept that, they are treated as having a severe mental health disorder and treated with medication to induce sexual desire.
Exploitation.
Asexual people are subject to extensive relationship abuse, wherein they are expected to “make up for” being “broken” by obeying and accepting abuse from partners.
Asexual people are expected to each as an individual be at all times prepared and capable of giving a sourced, cited, formatted interview explaining the history of their identity, and repeat this interview on demand, regardless of labour, disability, or social setting, to “prove” their worth. This expectation of labour is held by both cisgender-heterosexual people and by exclusionary queer people.
Violence.
If you’ve not listened to people talk about corrective rape before, you won’t listen here either, but suffice to say, that’s a thing.
Asexual people can be and indeed are subject to pseudo-scientific nonsense “therapy” to force them to exhibit normative sexuality by creating violent trauma responses that imitate heterosexual behaviour without being motivated by heterosexual desire.
Injustice.
Non-sexual partners tend to receive less preference in custody battles, for one.
The above description of medical abuse is completely legal.
The above description of conversion therapy is also completely legal.
In conclusion, from a sociological perspective, asexual people are indeed oppressed.
XOXOX
–An actual sociologist.
(via neurodivergent-crow)