Musings of a Drink Witch

i can’t wait for when chatGPT and ai image generation also crashes and each prompt cost $50 an attempt. oh you can’t get your stolen big tiddy anime ghibli art for free anymore? you want to buy real big boy art from real artists now? beg for it. beg for it like a dog.

No one’s ever been able to answer this so I’m gonna ask it again: Why do cishet aces want to be LGBT so bad? Why do you want to have that label on you? Because honestly, it fucking sucks. It might seem cool to be part of the “exclusive gay kids club” online, but outside of tumblr, LGBT people are stereotyped at best, and stalked and killed at worst. Sure, we have pride parades and gay bars, but we live in fear of being shot and killed just for being there. There are certain countries I can’t even enter for fear of being executed because of my orientation. I just don’t understand why you would want to be in a community that inherently puts you in danger. Cishet aces and aros, you have a free pass from this kind of abuse. Why do you want to go through it?

cishets already view aces and aros as lgbt+ they don’t care about the nuances of ace discourse

Q SLUR TW First of all, cishet aces are only considered LGBT because you guys tell everyone you’re LGBT. If they were to stop trying to piggyback on the movement as much as they do, they would face the same amount of discrimination as, say, someone who is celibate for religious reasons. They could so easily say “oh, I don’t experience sexual attraction” or even “I don’t want to have sex until I get to know you better” or WHATEVER flavor of ace they are, and odds are no one would bat an eye. But because they insist on calling themselves “gay” and “queer”, they’re being lumped with an oppressed group. ACES added the A to the acronym, ACES put themselves in pride events, and ACES have been trying to force themselves in LGBT-friendly spaces for years now. And NONE of your arguments directly address the original point of the post, which is: Why do cishet aces want to be oppressed? Cishet aces can easily opt out of that oppression. But instead they insist on being included. Because, as much as they hate to admit it, they are not systemically oppressed. It’s not even that we’re saying all aces/aro people arent lgbt. We know there are lgbtpn aces (or lgbtpn aros), but the lgbt+ community was built as a safe space for people that face homophobia, biphobia, transphobia, etc. we [lgbt+ ppl] face that kind of discrimination which also leads to years of oppression and calling us slurs that later on we either reclaimed or get anxiety from because of past experiences. The type of “discrimination” aces face is toxic masculinity and misogyny; there’s no actual oppression aces face that revolve around them being ace rather than the societies they may live around. We want a community where we can all feel safe from our oppressors, and I’m sorry to say that cishet asexuals have no place in it. And a short note on your last little tidbit: the reason why “aphobes” are different than TERFs is because we recognize that transgender people are valid in their identities and don’t reduce them to their genitals. We also acknowledge that transgender individuals face systemic oppression much like what gay people, lesbians, and bisexuals face. And the majority of us are trans and experience some form of same-gender attraction so if you can stop comparing us to TERFs and biphobes that would be fantastic.

"You know, I kinda like it": vampire equivalent of people eating food they're allergic to anyway

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this post was a big hit in the adults who have bills to pay fandom

girls will have one (1) good day when they convince themselves they've never been unwell in their life and the next day the horrors will return

love how the king was just like nah let's see where the dog is going with this