I kinda wish that "oh they don't know they are dating yet lol" was used less as a joke because while it can be funny to think about people not recognizing their obvious feelings it also shows a major issue with amatonormativity and believing certain ways people interact with each other can only be read 1 way. It shoves relationships into a box and assumes the people in their own relationship don't know any better and so can't possibly label it correctly.
"they say they are friends but obviously they just don't know they're dating yet!" Assumes that 1. Friendship is less than romance. 2. That the way these people act with each other has to be romantic and any other interpretation is wrong including the people who are interacting own interpretations of their relationship. 3. Assumes you, a third party observing the relationship you are not part of, know more and better than the people in the relationship and thus have authority to put a label on said relationship.
Do you see the problem here? Do you understand how fucked up it is to constantly be told your relationship is something it's not. Do you understand how rude it is to undermine people's own ability to properly label their own relationships. It does not matter if YOU think they are dating. If they say they are friends then they are F R I E N D S.
The thing Abt relationships is that all parties in the relationship have to agree with what it is. If one says they are dating and the other says they are not, then they are not dating and they will never be until both agree on that face. Simple as that.
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Of all people, this bot should not have contacted me lmao
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once again aromanticism is not a tragedy
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things that allos do that make aspecs accuse them of being aphobic:
mocking their labels and vocab
invalidating their existence
trivializing their experience
excluding them from the queer community
comparing them to paedophiles and MAP groups
comparing them to their oppressors
things that aspecs do that make allos accuse them of being homophobic/queerphobic:
existing
talking about their personal experience and headcanons
expressing their wish to be included in the queer community
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I COMPLETELY BLANKED ON ASEXUAL DAY I HAVE FAILED MY FELLOW ACE BRETHREN.....💔 on a lighter note I realized something groundbreaking.....
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Watched the DnD movie and honestly... not only getting to see a man and a woman platonically live together and raise a child, but also seeing the story treat that relationship as even more important than either lead's lost romantic love..? Not to mention just the overall lack of focus on romance in favour of fellowship and family? My ace skin is clear... my aro crops are watered... Tolkien's ghost is doing a jig as we speak...
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I used to be very active on r/lgballt, guess I will post some of the comic i made for that sub here to
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still not sure how much of my queerness is "real" and how much my brain made up to be more like the cool and funny and hot people on my phone
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Sorry not sorry but if you hear "we need more aroace rep" "we need more repulsed rep" or "we need more non-partnering rep" and your first response it to get upset and assume this means people think just aro/ just ace/favorable/partnering rep shouldn't exist then that's a YOU problem and maybe you should ask yourself why you feel threatened by other aspec identities asking for rep so much.
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being ace and a 196er is like walking in a minefield
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