Tag: arophobia

beranyth:

bythegoddess:

why do people listen to aro/ace ‘criticism’ from people who have made it expressly clear they’re aro/acephobic

like maybe people who outright say they don’t believe it doesn’t exist or have any worth are…people who don’t have any ‘criticism’ of worth to say maybe…justtt maybe

thisssssssssssss

I’m so fucking tired of seeing the opinions of people who pathologize asexuality or aromanticism promoted, or those who say we’re “just straight people who want to be special snowflakes” or “sexually repressed airheads who are too pathetic to be ~liberated” or “gay/lesbian in denial with too much internalized homophobia to admit it” or “can’t get a date so make up an orientation” etc etc etc being treated like they’re the Word of God on us because they can find something to lash out about, or manage to wrap their bullshit up in enough buzzwords for people to swallow it

sometimes the criticism itself is legit but guess what, it’s so fucking easy to keep an ear to the ground for every possible way people from a marginalized group can fuck up and then SHOUT IT FROM THE ROOFTOPS and then get legitimacy for whatever hateful shit you spout the rest of the day

it’s especially heartbreaking when I see ace/aro people–especially kids, which I see a lot–dutifully reblogging it because they’re trying to be responsible and mindful, and inadvertantly give a pedestal to people who don’t care about them at all and want to perpetrate everything that’s harmed them