I know this is a really long video (12 minutes), but I beg of you: please, please watch it. This is EXACTLY what ace-phobia looks like. This is what ace-identifying people like me have to put up with every single damn day. I can’t count how many times I’ve heard something similar to this, including this past weekend at #C2E2 (briefly). Ugh, the pity is just repulsive to me. I’ve had friends (some of whom are now “former”) and family say similar things to me as this asshat says.
If you believe anything this asshat says, you are ace-phobic and you really need to take a good long look at yourself.
Thank you so much, queerascat for posting this video and speaking up. You’re amazing 🙂
“To sit here with this sign…is a cry for help.” I cracked up laughing at that part.
God. They explicitly said, at the beginning of the video, that it was simply about sexual ATTRACTION. Not libido, not romantic attraction, not sensual attraction, not love in general, not the act of sex itself. Just. Attraction. And he just basically ignored that and kept going, “Okay, how much sex are you allowed to have to still be considered asexual?”
And ohmygod. “Do you have a dildo? I’m not trying to be an asshole, let’s just be grownups about this.”
I HAVE NEVER MET OR HEARD OF A GROWNUP WHO WALKED UP TO SOMEONE, NOT EVEN A CELIBATE PERSON, AND SAID “DO YOU HAVE A DILDO?” LIKE THAT WAS A SERIOUS CONCERN.
That’s not “being a grownup”, that’s acting like a child. Only a child would randomly ask such a personal question like that, because they don’t freaking know better. You do. It’s an invasion of privacy at best and and downright fkking creepy at worst.
The 2nd Amendment is no longer the right to bear arms. The 2nd Amendment has become the right to take lives. The 2nd Amendment is no longer aiding citizens. The 2nd Amendment is now abetting murderers.
When the laws don’t work, the laws must change.
Well, clearly you failed 9th grade Social Studies.
You know… I honestly don’t remember how did in 9th grade Social Studies?
I did okay majoring in Political Science and American Government in undergrad though. I graduated summa cum laude so I figure I must have learned something?
Law school also went alright I guess? I did somehow manage to get an article about the constitutionality and modification of excessive force laws through out the 50 states placed in a national publication. And I also managed to pass the Bar Exam.
But yeah it’s totally possible I failed 9th grade social studies tbh. I was a little shit when I was 15 and gave no fucks.
This is the English word I want to get tattooed on my wrist. It means “to keep breathing even though the water rises all around you.” English is such a mystical exotic language. They can fit so much meaning into so small a word.
Having given it some thought, and bearing in mind how my full-time job is ramping up in comparison to how much time I actually have to relax on the weekends (very little), I’m considering hiring on someone to take care of backgrounds for me on Doomsday, My Dear.
Can you do better than this?
I sure hope so
I am looking for someone who can work reliably with hard deadlines, has a strong grasp of color theory, lighting, and perspective, can do 4 pages a month, and who is just cool to work with and enthusiastic about the job. Also important, you must have time to do it and the desire to spend time doing it, otherwise known as The Things I Currently Lack.
I keep seeing people freak out about the fact that Overwatch is canon in TAZ but I think everyone’s glossed over the fact that we, the listeners, are also canon and fighting the Hunger in the Plane of Thought. The podcast is the green and blue light of Fisher and Junior being told by Johann.
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