DiscussionShould asexuals in gay relationships be in LGB?

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[–][deleted] 43 insightful - 4 fun43 insightful - 3 fun44 insightful - 4 fun -  (6 children)

They experience discrimination based on being gay. The asexual part is honestly pretty irrelevant and I don’t think it needs to be included, there are plenty of straight asexuals, are they now in the community too? If you include all asexuals you’re including straight people that don’t experience oppression from being same sex partnered. Asexual doesn’t need a category in LGB. This is ridiculous.

[–]RedditHatesLesbiansHomosexual Not Queer[S] 22 insightful - 1 fun22 insightful - 0 fun23 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Very good points. If you're asexual and in a same sex relationship, calling yourself asexual is similar to specifying that you have a dead bedroom, doesn't change how the relationship is viewed legally. Straight asexuals don't experience any discrimination from what I've seen, apart from what counts as "oppression" nowadays which is telling people they should be having kids and getting married.

[–][deleted] 23 insightful - 1 fun23 insightful - 0 fun24 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Asexuals already have communities of their own that they made themselves, and apparently they are full of many variations on asexuality. This will cause confusion and even more infighting within the LGB if we start transferring all that drama over here. LGB asexuals belong with us and have already been with us without having a whole ass letter on the dumb letter list. Lol.

[–]BiHorror 16 insightful - 2 fun16 insightful - 1 fun17 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

telling people they should be having kids and getting married

Which is really no different to non-asexual straight people, especially women.

[–]reluctant_commenter 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah, that's a really good point.

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Also: I think asexual’s experience is much much different than the average “norm” human’s experience of sexuality and they honestly do need a whole ass community of their own and will not get the proper support trying to bring these issues to the LGBT hater cesspool anyway haha

[–]RedditHatesLesbiansHomosexual Not Queer[S] 15 insightful - 2 fun15 insightful - 1 fun16 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Right, what should happen is LGB, asexuals, then whole TQ+NQJSIJWN nonsense by itself. When you huddle so many vastly different concepts together into one a group tends to lose focus. I can't remember the last time lesbophobia was seriously discussed in the LGBT community for example.