Sometimes I think I'm a Horseshoe Crab

Forbidding the iranian team coaches from entering the country and forcing them to direct the game from MEXICO through a tv

Players from non european countries being stopped and searched like criminals with dogs

Deporting african referees just because of their nationality

Forbidding interviews from being spoken i'm languages other than English and forbidding journalists and players from speaking their native languages

I think it's because you're afraid to care.

bypass paywall

bwah :3

Mark Rothko, Untitled, 1963 Oil on paper, laid down on canvas 75.4 x 55 x 3.5 cm / 29 5/8 x 21 5/8 x 1 3/8 in Courtesy Private Collection © 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko / 2025, ProLitteris, Zurich

Like, that phrasing actually reeks of aphobia and allonormativity (consciously or not).

Asexuality is not a lack of sexual attraction, it's experiencing little to no sexual attraction. Aromanticism is not a lack of romantic attraction, it's experiencing little to no romantic attraction.

I do not experience sexual or romantic attraction, but I don't "lack" those things. Lack implies a deficiency, a sense of incompleteness or wrongness. To lack something means that you are lacking in it, and inherently assumes that's a bad thing. That might not be the intention, but the word "lack" is just so pathologizing that I just hate using it to describe something like orientation.

My orientation is not a problem or an absence of something, it's just what I am.