Tag: aromantic

a-polite-melody:

herefortheace:

Statements to the effect of “ace people/aro people are horrible” are not valuable, justifiable or acceptable

why the fuck do I even have to say that

And before someone swoops in with, “but I’m allowed to hate my oppressors!”

Ace people are not your oppressors. Aro people are not your oppressors. There is no ace or aro privilege that people are afforded just for being ace or aro.

What you’re doing by labelling all aspec people as being your oppressors is saying that they are functionally no different than people who have full access to both cis privilege and straight privilege. That is incorrect and horribly dismissive of the problems aspec people face in regards to their being aspec.

constant-vellichor:

I just scrolled through the ace discourse tag for thirty minutes and I’m so tired. Just… just let me spell it out here.

If you are attracted sexually and romantically only to women if you are a man, and only to men if you are a woman, you are straight. If you identify solely with the gender you were assigned at birth, you are cis. 

If any of these things don’t apply to you, you are LGBTQ+. Period.

Asexual people are not sexually attracted to anyone. Aromantic people are not romantically attracted to anyone. Therefore, even if an aromantic person identifies as heterosexual and an asexual person identifies as heteroromantic, they are still not straight and are part of the community. End of story. 

And it’s not some pissing contest about who is more oppressed. Different parts of the community face different types of discrimination and oppression. LGBTQ+ people band together because we are different from society’s norm. Why the fuck are we squabbling among ourselves about who’s different now?

If you are a Self-Confessed Tumblr Aphobe: Congratulations! You’ve succeeded in being a dick over the internet to somebody about their sexuality/romantic orientation! Are you proud? Do you feel good inside? Have you validated yourself via shitting on other people? 

Well, in the real world and in IRL LGBTQ+ spaces, your opinions are just as stupid, wrong and unnecessary as they are online, only you don’t have a computer to hide behind and can tell aro and ace people just how much you hate them to their faces and see where it gets you!

tl;dr, aro and ace people are LGBTQ+, the entire ‘ace discourse’ is fucking idiotic, and if you are an aphobe you need to fucking stop. This community is a place where any LGBTQ+ people can be supported and validated, and if that doesn’t appeal to you, you can go make your own much smaller, shittier community full of assholes and gatekeepers.

Reblog to piss off an aphobe and make an ace person feel valid and safe in their own community.

All aces and aros are a part of the LGBT community.

not-so-tall-gay-danny:

katsuricata:

kryptid:

katsuricata:

“But–”

all of them

“but what if–”

all of them

“but they don’t–”

a l l o f t h e m

-sincerely, a pan trans woman who is neither

not if they’re cishet lmao fuck off

If someone is asexual, they are not heterosexual.

If someone is aromantic, they are not heteroromantic.

If someone is agender, they are not cisgender.

If the last one isn’t controversial, why are the first two?

YES
THIS
ACES AND AROS ARE PART OF OUR COMMUNITY AND I WILL LEGIT GET INTO A PUNCH-UP WITH ANYONE WHO SAYS OTHERWISE