thisiswhymomworries:

honqice:

what i said: ace people are valid and go through their own struggles, but they’re not systematically or historically oppressed because of their sexuality. also: you can be gay and ace, but being ace doesnt make you gay.

what yall think i said: i hate ace people

what you said: I refuse to actually read my history to understand that asexuals have always been in the lgbt+ community (x) (x) (x) (x) (x) either as Group X or identifying as bisexual because there was no other word for our identity (x)

I won’t acknowledge that outside of tumblr, asexual people are widely accepted in the lgbt+ community (x)

and that asexual people are still oppressed and discriminated against, as documented by both personal accounts of discrimination faced DIRECTLY because of acephobia (x) (x) (x) (x) and acephobia documented in scientific studies (x) (x) (x) (x)

also I’m not going to acknowledge that asexuality is listed as a mental illness in the DSM (Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder) (x)

• bonus conversion therapy stories (x) (x) (x) (x) (x)

I would rather believe that straight people are OK with some people experiencing sexuality differently than them and fully accept these people as exactly the same as them and give them the full benefits and privilege of inclusion and support–because straight people are historically so good and understanding like that–than accept any of the above that shows the revolutionary concept that the only people straight people accept as straight are ……… OTHER STRAIGHT PEOPLE (x) (x) (x)

that have the exact same experiences as them!!! cis men and cis women who feel romantic and sexual attraction exclusively to cis women and cis men, respectively, AND NOTHING ELSE, it’s almost like this is the founding principle of heteronormativity (x) (x) (x)

and that assuming if someone isn’t “gay enough” for my standards that automatically makes them straight because straight is the good wholesome default (x) and I like the way my rhetoric directly echoes biphobia (x) (x) (x) / panphobia (x) (x) (x) / transphobia (x) (x) (x) (x)

what you meant: I hate ace people