ColonizationWill the last person on Earth NOT part of the LGBTIQAXYZWTF+ community please close the door behind them. We are above capacity.

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[–]Horror-SwordfishI don't get how flairs work 17 insightful - 1 fun17 insightful - 0 fun18 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Asexual people are like, the most annoying one to me because (1) they all seem to have a different definition of asexual, (2) they all seem to act like their definition of asexual is totally correct and no one has ever had a different definition, and (3) they act like they are so oppressed when their "oppression" mainly consists of people saying, "No one cares, you're not special, get a life."

I maintain that hetero/homoromantic is not a thing. If you are heteroromantic, you are heterosexual. If you are homoromantic, you are homosexual. If you are biromantic, you are bisexual. Your sexuality has nothing to do with the amount of sex you have. I could never have sex for the rest of my life and I would still be a homosexual man because I am attracted to people of the same sex as me. That's how sexual orientation works.

"Asexual" would mean that you literally have no attraction whatsoever to either men or women. I guess I could concede that that might be a real thing somewhere (although I have my doubts), but if you are able to have a "romantic" attraction to someone, you are not asexual, and if you're heteroromantic, you're straight so you are not oppressed the least bit.

[–]HelloMomo 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Even when I was like 13 and ID'ed as aromantic asexual, I thought the split attraction model was bullshit.

It's basically the same idea as sex vs gender; they try to peal apart the core of the thing, and then the social scaffolding that's been build around it, and assert them as two separate things. Except the scaffolding crumbles without the core to support it. Nobody can scrounge up a coherent definition of what it's supposed to actually be without the core as a point of reference.

[–]Sapphicatalyst 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The only time the split attraction model seems useful to me is with bisexual people, such as heteroromantic bisexual. Might not be medically accurate terminology, but that advertises to me that they lean straight.

[–]reluctant_commenter 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

"Asexual" would mean that you literally have no attraction whatsoever to either men or women. I guess I could concede that that might be a real thing somewhere (although I have my doubts)

It is. I have a friend like this. But these people get talked over by literal 10 year olds who believe that you can be sexually attracted to people and still be "asexual".