Choosing an asexual person to lead the Pride parade is a slap in the face to everyone who has ever been discriminated against for their sexual orientation.
@isthisbicuIture
How can a woman that is herself attracted to other women โfetishizeโ a lesbian?
Fetishization happens if someone โrubs itโ to a dynamic of sex / sensuality that does not involve people of their gender
That then shaping how they treat the REAL people who can and would do that
@bleedingmothz
Being asexual, or belonging to any part of the โ-TQIAโ, can be especially difficult
Aphobia is still normalized and wide spread among most straight people as well as half our own queer community
And being such a very small minority group makes us all the more vulnerable to it
@he_ls_him
โDressing like a w*horeโ is a standard shaped by misogyny
The term itself is used for women that are barely any more โpromiscuousโ than the average man, especially if he is given the same chance
@comradeyongie
@PastelleAutumn
Go off, but what does that have to do with bi women? Why are we targeting them as somehow responsible for the cys-straight men that do this?
Seems like biphobia to me to pin this on them, when these men are fully autonomous to come by themselves or as anyone's relatives / friends
@DanTheLeper
@forrrestgreen
โMore men kill themselves than men kill womenโ
Even if that WERE true (and it isnโt), what gender would the perpetrators of both those crimes be?
The answer to that also shows you which group needs to do better to fix the issues
@anomalous_blake
@skyebatungbakal
As a psychology major going onto a Masterโs, this is NOT what we are taught
Compassion and empathy is the first and mandatory stepping stone in any psychological practice with patients
Even if you are research-focused / teaching-focused, you need that
@realMWO
@scitt5000
@Psyxxxix
@__Guntar__
โฆYou mean you ONLY rely on articles from BEFORE gay people got any legal or scientific recognition they are a natural variation of sexuality, about whether being gay is natural?
Do you see how maybe you have a biased and outdated understanding of the topic?
@foorventingonly
@bartouche3
All sexual intimacy is sado-masochistic
It is all rooted in receiving / inflicting some sort of pain that all parties consent to
None of us are fully above it
There is no need to pearl-clutch to this extent
@ladielabrys2
@ghoulhag
Why are you, someone is not bi, telling a bisexual person what anti-bi stereotypes she can perpetuate and what not?
Stay in your lane instead of speaking over a bi woman
@realMWO
@scitt5000
@Psyxxxix
@__Guntar__
Some people mistake their sexual ORIENTATION, choose to repress it or experience it as fluid
But it is never a "change back to straight" they choose
It seems like a choice to you, because you are totally removed from the hardships and stigma of being gay
No one would choose it
@realMWO
@scitt5000
@Psyxxxix
@__Guntar__
If you want to go the bio-essentialist route, then what do you say to the fact that multiple other species of animal exhibit same-sex relations?
It is clearly not caused by human society
@BraddockBessie
No, you do not target โgender ideologyโ, no such thing
You target the science and literature that exists in support of trans identities and you deny trans people (who also are a sexual / gender minority) their identity and existence in themselves
Do not attempt to obfuscate
@Kirby_PPG
@sapphiceya
No, actually, it is you who is coping
Because none of what you say โconfirms someone to be straightโ
Plenty of (usually closeted) queer men do those things
Which is to say, YOU can cope
@C_scip
@kailynsremains
@KateBMwriting
Most asexual adults known how to love ourselves, our bodies and others perfectly well
You just assume that involves a โsex lifeโ when it doesnโt necessary
Because you are not asexual
Just take a seat and actually listen to asexual people for once
@adamfare1996
Some (queer) people outside of the aro-ace umbrella think they can tell us what struggles we face and donโt face
But asexuality has always been something as another sexual deviancy to correct
Corrective โtherapistsโ and rapists have never actually given it a pass
@grassfay
Cys-straight women have been some of the most homophobic people in my life
They have assaulted me, they have ridiculed me, they have tokenized me, etc.
And now I am hearing "I'd rather cys-hetero women come to Pride than bi people"
INSANE
@blowcalcaine
@softsweetsoul
@womenpostingws
You can โjust ignore itโ if those religions donโt affect your culture
Or if you are a straight man
Everyone else isnโt always just โignoring itโ
@bogofhate
โSapphicโ means a woman that is attracted to those perceived by her as women
Sapphic culture and art belongs to bi women just as much as lesbian women
@2ulked
@hiyenas
It's like telling a non-binary person their identity is real, so long as they never EVER experience any gendered alignments towards male or female
@isthisbicuIture
That isโฆ so bizarre
To claim that bi women are โlike hetero menโ, but not literally HETERO women?
C!s-straight women are right there
If someone is fetishizing queerness, there is a good 50% chance it is them ๐
@adamfare1996
All these alloromantic-allosex gay people denying aphobia can also benefit from a privilege check this month
Socializing as an asexual or aromantic person is harder than most of them can imagine
And they have the nerve to tell us we โdonโt have it hard enough to countโ
@MariCeeCee98
Homo-misogyny actually goes crazy on this app too though
I am encountering so many men in โmy communityโ that are just acting on a pure disdain for anything remotely female or feminine
@vixidescent
The rehabilitation of abusers does not attempt to erase or โmove on fromโ what they have done
You clearly donโt know very much about that process
@rampancy
We always have had
There is also a lot of overlap
A big part of the asexual community also has an attraction to both / all genders
And even among those who donโt, (like gay and aromantic-asexuals) a lot have relied on the bisexual label to explore their identity
@Sociallyempty
@XarifIno
Treating masculinity as exclusive to people who present male and/or were AMAB is so strange to me
Some of the most masculine people out there are butch women who can fold most cis guys like a camp chair
@atragicvillain
@HasPause
And how many of all these streamers that allegedly know more about politics, actually address most political issues on their platform and express all their views?
@junkerqueenssub
@idkeiden
@KrisSkulls
Because โcsisโ is not an insult
It is just a subcategory of gender and before that, a type of molecular structure
โF*agโ WAS British slang for a (typically used up) cigarette and a fried meal, but became popularized as an insult that denotes gayness
@XarifIno
Hot Take but a lot of trans women on this app have decided they are not oppressed enough until they can see themselves as more oppressed than most or even ALL other trans people
MAYBE because oppression is an element of womanhood they have internalized, almost as a sort of need
@theneonrequiem
He had HIS breasts removed because it helps him exist as a man and is celebrating that with the look
He hasn't removed or told someone to remove their breasts
It is provocative, but that's the point
There is nothing wrong with it
@thelgbgroup
Nope
Most transgender people I know and have talked to are attracted to others of their gender
Actually progressive gay people like myself will never let you falsely frame this as โinvading heterosexualsโ
Trans people have visibly been in our community for most of its history
@isthisbicuIture
We cannot trust these people to take the side of trans / sapphic / asexual women that happen to date c!s-hetero men, whenever said men are bigoted towards queer women
This is a tragic level of patriarchal pick-me behavior for other queer women to exhibit
@softer_s0ft3st
Older men make up a lot of the pedos in general
And twinks are particularly vulnerable to said men in our community
Not just in porn, this happens in gay bars on most days
@X_Aeon_X
Queer theory has nothing to do with that
You have clearly never engaged with or listened to it
You are just a privileged, white American gay looking for a minority to demonize and hate
@bisexualchimi
โEveryone benefits from trans acceptance but me and this specific group I belong to. Everyone else that dissents to the established social norms I choose to uphold is speaking over and oppressing me. REEE!โ
@BioTransNelson
Yes, I am Proud of having discovered and educated myself
I am going to be open about that, especially so this month
Now, let's get back to you being increadibly out of touch with how men work
@doctorassman
@adamfare1996
That is the worst attempt at education oneself I have seen
Asexual people are real, we experience love in a very tangibly different way and we are tired of being marginalized and pathologized for it
@TheTylerKeller
@Shad07385692
@RustyKu37492320
@DegenCPA22
I went to private school, one of the more lavish ones in the UK
I had loving, opposite-sex parents in my life for 18 years and counting
I have never been abused or so much as inappropriately touched by an adult all that time
Still a homo
What now?
@joer0952
@Provokethoughtz
Abortion is not murder
More than 94% of abortions happen before there is any sentient life other than the motherโs
That is a better death-less rate than that of many life-saving surgeries
@vibrantyolk
@Dragnmastralex_
@GrumpyGunny
@iamAtheistGirl
You donโt understand
Apparently, we shouldnโt even be saying โmen harass womenโ
We need to be PC, walk around eggshells or else how will men FEEL
After all, their biggest threat is to their feelings
@ninafromcanada
@gusherrz
The lives of bi women, whether they date women or men, are of no obstacle to your lesbian-ing whatsoever
If you perpetuate harmful stereotypes and prejudice toward bi women, you are indeed punching down on them and doing biphobia
Hope this helps
@XarifIno
These people get off on the idea that they are stopping trans men from establishing some sort of trans-patriarchy which doesnโt already exist in cis-patriarchy (against all people with marginalized gender identities)
@Rooc40
Letโs be clear too, this content is not primarily for white women either
A lot of the racist white men that are opposed to โThird World migrantsโ are beating their meat to exactly these kinds of scenarios
Their own heterosexuality transcends their racism
@KateBMwriting
Kate, by labeling trans people as ill sexual deviants that are dangerous to children, you are doing what was done to our community in the 70s and what still informs the law and norm in most of the world today
You just have reached a point where you can do that without seeing it
@JessDeWahls
A โwomanโs brainโ is perfectly fine after birthing a child and not raising it
No adverse medical or psychological effects are found in it during studies
Stop shaming surrogates by proxy of what is clearly your disdain for couples that canโt conceive
@TwinkBussyLover
@computer_gay
Firstly, many asexual people absolutely share the struggle of attraction to their own gender
Most asexual people who arenโt aromantic are attracted to their own gender, itโs almost half
Secondly, we ARE marginalized for our sexuality being non-normative and getting pathologized
@thangbrandr
@ericeffiorg
@RobProvince
I donโt think there is much of a difference in how Hamas and Christian groups a la WBC wish to treat LGBTQ people
The only difference is the legal hurtles, which Christian conservatives have only ever undermined in the West as well
Never led contributions to
@tisflying
@MarieScorailles
Ask the IDF, whom have devastated Gaza for even longer
Do you think they stop to ask the Palestinians they reduce to dust if they support gay rights?
@LordAslanThe2nd
โSuper straightโ is a label that only exists because some straight people misunderstand sexuality and think others like them were โgay-edโ by the existence and acceptance of trans people
It is simply reactionaries that think they can weaponize LGBTQ language against LGBTQ people
@jonnie1waffles
@CaelanConrad
Hi Jonnie!
Are you aware many stalls can already give you complete privacy from anyone, of any anatomical makeup? That those who attempt to ignore this cue are not stopped by a stick figure sign having a skirt? And that they are almost always cisgender men?
I find it CURIOUS I never hear bi men saying all that
Almost like what these women hate isnโt the woman they dated, but simply dating in a socially unacceptable way to straight societyโฆ
sorry, but the โdating women is worse than dating menโ โmen could never hurt you the way a woman couldโ โi dated one woman and then went back to dating men because men are easierโ queer women are so loserishhh itโs actually unreal
@finngalkn
As a (cis) gay guy, I would be flattered if a trans masculine man wanted to date me
It is still much less likely I am the rejecting one in that scenario ๐