i don’t believe you can even begin talking about an “allosexual” or “sex-normative” or “amatonormative” or whatever culture without very seriously and comprehensively talking about heterosexism/homophobia (particularly compulsory heterosexuality) and misogyny. and how racism/being racialized affects people of color and their perceived sexuality/ status as sexualized objects as well as their ability to navigate their personal sexualities. and how transphobia/transmisogyny simultaneously renders primarily trans women (but also some other trans people) objects of disposability, scorn, and disgust and porn-ified sexual aggression. and how many disabled people are denied sexuality and sexual expression, and are particularly vulnerable to rape and sexual abuse.
asexuals may feel and be alienated but they are not alienated in some a priori way by virtue of simply “not experiencing sexual attraction”. the fact is that society and particular individuals under society care very much about how one has a sexuality, and whether otherwise marginalized individuals are sexual in these certain ways, rather than that atomized and generalizable individuals have “a sexuality”. especially not sexuality as construed as personally experiencing certain fuzzy feelings (”attraction”) when observing other people.
alienation from wider culture happens because of material reasons, and functions in certain ways to deliberately harm and drive marginalized people out. we need to describe these specific ways marginalized people are hurt and the ways that the powerful benefit from hurting them, rather than posit more and more micro- identities that don’t form coherent classes under which people are oppressed.
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