They think that because corrective rape was initially coined to describe lesbophobic corrective rape in South Africa, asexuals aren't allowed to use it. One of many completely bullshit beliefs people only adopted to avoid having to admit that the people they were doing a lateral violence to didn't have a point. Its the same as what people are doing right now to trans men; people insisting that forced pregnancy isn't that big of an issue because they can't deny that trans men are affected by it.
Acephobia is written off by acephobes as non-existent or, at most, online bullying, unlike homophobia which involves REAL harm -> asexuals & allies point out examples of how acephobia can be undeniably harmful and targeted at asexuals, such as someone being raped in an attempt to correct their asexuality -> instead of acknowledging that acephobia does involve serious real-world harm, discoursers switch to "well ACTUALLY corrective rape only applies to lesbians, so asexuals are lesbophobic for insisting they can experience it!"
Anyways, the HRW also has said in this report:
Much of the recent media coverage of violence against lesbians and transgender men has been characterized by a focus on “corrective rape,” a phenomenon in which men rape people they presume or know to be lesbians in order to “convert” them to heterosexuality. While the focus on “corrective rape” draws attention to an important aspect of the problem, it also detracts from the larger set of issues fueling violence and discrimination against lesbians and transgender men. A narrow focus on “corrective rape” can give the mistaken impression that only “butch lesbians” are subject to sexual assault, or that rape is the only issue of concern, or that sexual assault faced by a lesbian is qualitatively different from and more serious than sexual assault against a person who is not identified as a lesbian. Local and international campaigns have condemned the practice and state responses have also focused on so-called “corrective rape.”
Most people insisting corrective rape is a lesbophobia-only term would, I imagine, also get mad if it was used as an example of transandrophobic violence, and yet it is very clear that any person taking this issue seriously would acknowledge trans men are targets of corrective rape for being trans men. No one who isn't motivated by reactionary queer conservatism would act like asexuals aren't subjected to corrective rape for being asexual. This is as logically "blood-boiling" as people fuming about immigrants causing the death of Western civilization. Because it is absolutely absurd to act like it matters that only lesbians are ever allowed to use this word because lesbophobia is the specialist worst oppression in the world and no other queer person can ever suffer like they suffer.
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