now that my embarrassing apology is out there in the open i can bashfully admit one of my favorite ocs is aromantic and i love having asexual headcanons. plus i think building a community of people with like-minded goals instead of turning away “outsiders” is dope.
one of the things that got me motivated to post that instead of just silently changing my mind was seeing the anti-trans freak oli london post this
i was repulsed by this sort of entitlement and rape culture directed at a person for having the audacity to identify as asexual and dress how they please. i don’t want to argue about how this is actually something else because anti-asexual bigotry “isn’t real.” it doesn’t matter to me. all that matters to me is how heartbreaking it is that bigots can get away with attacking what they consider easy targets.
the impulse that would possess someone to write something this disgusting is the problem here. you cannot be part of the solution by navel-gazing about whether this actually constitutes “real” sexual orientation based oppression. i cannot trust your fight against rape culture if you are unwilling to name its targets.
