Roses are Red

Why are otherkin always so specific about who can follow them and what they can reblog and stuff? You’d think these ‘people’ who don’t appreciate being treated unfairly would be more accepting

Because everyone has a right to decide who they want to interact with and who they don’t? Also, the majority of otherkin don’t think they're oppressed or talk about how unfairly they're being treated. That's more a vocal minority thing. Lastly, I've actually seen more people who are traumatized/disabled/dealing with mental health disorders/facing other marginalizations use the "don't follow me if..." line than just plain otherkin using it. It's used by people who are sensitive and possibly deal with triggers/painful reactions to getting the same misunderstandings over and over and/or dealing with attitudes that hurt them or stand against who they are and what they believe. Many people see Tumblr as the place they go to socialize/kick back and not the place they go to prove their functionality/put on their "tough faces," which means that yes - they do deal with all kinds of opinions and attitudes every day, but they choose to only socialize with people they feel understood and supported by

Actually, noun-self pronouns aren’t even meant for otherkin. They’re for non-binary trans people who don’t like they/their, but Tumblr has possibly created an unfair/untrue link between those pronouns and simply being kin. In short, a non-binary fae-kin might use fae-self pronouns, but a fairy doesn’t automatically get new pronouns for being a fairy. 

Well sexual offenders kind of implies the sex part, and I know there are different.kinds of sexual offenders that don’t molest cgolden. My problem is when some one does something so horribly wrong and don’t feel as if they should have any social consequences. If someone kills someone I’ll call them a murderer no matter if it offends them or not.

Well no one here is saying that people who touch kids have an excuse. Rather it’s about pedophiles who get slandered while they’ve never done anything wrong. “Pedophile” doesn’t mean “sexual offender” or “child molester”, that’s different words for different things.

Should a 21 year old be wanting a 17 year old to send him nudes and then want to cuddle naked with said 17 year old...?

Well...you should probably not *ask* them to do that because it’s against the law and such, but simply having the desire to ask (and not acting on it at all) is not the end of the world. Your best bet if a 21-year-old and a 17-year-old really want to be together is just to wait a few more months. 

Not ace myself, but people aren’t actually that nice about it. A lot of people don’t like anything that isn’t the norm - you've gotta remember that asexual isn’t just “low sex drive, but otherwise straight and gonna get married and have kids,” it’s a possible indicator that you won’t do “the normal thing” (at least in the eyes of your most average people ever who you might tell). Also, we live in a culture that simultaneously shames people for wanting sex too much and for wanting it too little. People sorta overcome their shame they were raised with by being all “oh well, everyone likes it, it’s natural, so it’s not just me” and then if any single person on the planet says they don’t like it, suddenly the whole “everyone’s doing it” reason doesn’t work anymore and they have to update their self-defense to something more like “it’s okay because I’m not harming anyone with it” (and make sure that’s true) versus using the bandwagon defense. People don’t like to change or to think most of the time. 

Ugh I hate those. Thanks for the warning. 

I am a Ravenclaw!!!!

Second base???? What? Are we in middle school? Jesus.