lord-kitschener:

hazardgirl:

spookyhouse:

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what could possibly go wrong

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sure

Whyyyy the hell not.

galesofnovember:

missvoltairine:

is that it only counts as indicative of marginalization if it’s systemic

How many people from [x] group are denied the right to be considered fit adoptive parents, per year? How does that break down by region? What is the reasoning given by adoption agencies and services? If there isn’t a lot of…  [continues at link]

Like a lot of these examples (asexies can’t be priests as one),  I think that the phenomenal creepiness of people who identify as asexual and who tell people that they are asexual in any and all of the examples I’ve ever seen of “asexual discrimination” is a huge factor.  

While I do agree with the OP that one example isn’t at all indicative of a trend and other groups definitely experience more difficulties when it comes to adoption, I’m just going to address galesofnovember’s reponse post that focuses entirely on how asexuals are clearly creepy sexuality cultists who are going to destroy the planet with their wild and evil theories.

Because that’s stupid and so unbelievably wrong I can’t even… I can’t even put it into words. First and foremost, galesofnovember, I am asexual. I am not homophobic at all, I’m not heteroromantic (sapioromantic, really, regardless of physical gender) and while I don’t intend to participate in LGBTQ+ spaces, they have my unwavering, undying support. So you can hold off on insinuating I’m a homophobe or that I hate women. Or if you want to insist, feel free, I like it when people make themselves look stupid without my help.

Alright, let’s get to the rest of this ridiculous post of yours now. From just the beginning sentence up above I’m struck by the following things… I’ve never heard anyone say that asexuals can’t be priests. What I have read, however, is that asexuality has no direct correlation to religion. Asexuality, after all, is not a synonym for celibacy or abstinence. But you don’t really strike me as the type of person who actually looks into things at any great length before they run their mouths off with assumptions. 

I wouldn’t want two people who believe in AVEN’s theories of human sexuality and express those theories in an interview with a stranger to be able to adopt kids, or to be become a religious leader.  I don’t want the Trevor Project presenting AVEN’s theories as if they were true to kids who are struggling with sexual identity.  I don’t want to hear about people’s detailed break down of their different types of sensual/sexual/physical/romantic attraction when I’m in the workplace and I’d be creeped out if someone I worked with explained that to me.   I don’t want someone who thinks that -romantic/-sexual is a reasonable way to break down human sexuality to be involved in queer activism.

Why not? There’s nothing wrong with those views on human sexuality. I don’t really think you’re anything even approaching a professional on sexuality at all. So unless you’re actually all-knowing, you have no grounds at all to say the theories are ludicrous. Often, asexuals seem to be very sex-positive because true sex-positivity means they value the ability to do what the person in question believes is best for themselves. So the right to say yes as they see fit or no as they see fit. Were I to adopt, the child would be taught that wanting sex is okay and not wanting it is okay too. So long as they’re safe and sound and content insofar as a person can be.

So I can only assume that if you don’t want kids to have access to all the available information, you want some kids to be miserable, do things they regret, and suffer thinking they’re broken. And I can only really assume you don’t give a fuck about being fair and educating children properly about how expansive the possibilities are in the world when it comes to other human beings. All kids should know that all the orientations exist, not just gay and straight. They should know about homosexuality, bisexuality, pansexuality, asexuality, and all the other sexualities exist and they should know what they mean. But that’s just me. I’m a radical, I know, I believe in good high-quality education and inclusion.

So far as your over-sharing coworkers are concerned, If you don’t want to hear about it, then don’t listen. I actually don’t even see what this has to do with any of the rest of the tripe you’re spewing. Clearly you hadn’t ever really noticed but people talk about their heterosexuality all the fucking time, and their heteroromanticism. It’s all over the television, in a lot of the books you read, in the magazines you scan during your lunch breaks. And unless you work with oddly open people, I don’t remember the last time someone I worked with came up to me without any prompting at all and told me about their love-lives. So I have literally no idea what sort of people you work with.

I don’t want someone who thinks that “sexual” people are ravenous sex machines who fuck like Homer Simpson eats donuts to be in a position to be in any sort of position of authority of young people.   

You’re making a pretty foul generalization about asexuals, you know. When you read a post where an asexual tumblr is saying something about how sex is apparently everywhere and in their face, they’re venting. They don’t think allosexuals are ravenous sex machines who like to fuck at every available moment, wherever they are. It feels like everything revolves around sex and, you know what? It makes a person feel incredibly fucking alienated. But you clearly don’t give a flying fuck in space about other people suffering, unless they’re you or people exactly like you. 

It’s all kind of cute when kids think this way, because I do think it’s a rational reaction to a culture of toxic sexuality.  But when we’re talking about grown adults with positions of power over kids who have these beliefs about sexuality, it’s chilling.  People who view human sexuality the way AVEN and asexuals on tumblr view human sexuality are scary people. 

Now you’ve gone ahead and said asexuality is something that belongs soully to little children and beyond that it’d be tantamount to believing in Santa. Bullshit. People like you probably think it’s great when an eight year old declares he’s gay because, hurray! He knows himself! But fuck you if you think you’re asexual, ever. Doesn’t that strike you as hypocritical? Well no, of course not, because you’re willfully ignorant.

The best thing about children is that they’re born without the prejudices people like you spew all the time. 

Chilling, eh? You know what’s chilling? Being told by people all the time “nope, you aren’t. Let me tell you what you actually are because you’re too fucking stupid to know yourself.” What the hell is even so chilling about being told “if you don’t think they’re attractive, that’s okay.” Fucking explain that to me because I have literally no everloving idea why the hell that’s awful.

And I would beg to differ. People who view sexuality like you do are scary people because people like you promote ignorance and tell people like me that I should live my life like people like you or be considered a freak.

So fuck you. If you choose to respond to this I’m going to ignore you like you ignore me and the rest of the asexuals in the world. Maybe I’ll just reblog and call you a creep. 

However. I do maintain that, at this point in time, there is no blatant prejudice against asexuals when it comes to adoption, they deny for other reasons and it looks like a prejudice due to coincidence. 

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