I have rarely, if ever, had trouble hitting a minimum word count. I like to explain things. I like to look at things in depth and from different angles. But what I love is the simple distilled truth of something. There is elegance in brevity. (Which I don't often attain to, as you can see. :D) There is also, usually, a lot less room for deception. This is one reason I favor the pro-life position. When I see pro-abortion arguments, I typically see three pages of mental and verbal gymnastics that have to speedrun through logical fallacies and into advocating ableism, discrimination, eugenics, and more on their hasty way to explain how it's actually "compassionate" and "moral" and "forward-thinking" to murder babies. Oh, sure, there are a few tired, pseudo-pithy mottos that can be tried: "the freedom/right to choose!" and "equal rights!" and "my body, my choice!" But I or anyone can drive a truck through the plot holes in those slogans with very little effort. - For example, "Freedom/right to choose!" becomes a lot less nice-sounding when you ask, "Freedom/right to choose...what?" Because it turns out that most sane people actually have some strong opinions about giving someone else the freedom and the right to choose to murder people. - "Equal rights! Human rights!" Great! So what about the rights of the human in the womb? Ask this, and you'll watch the pro-abortion crowd either fall over themselves to deny science or to reveal that they actually don't believe in equal rights for all humans -- they instead believe in equal rights for some humans and not others, based on physical and arbitrary characteristics like size, degree of development, and location. Which is what we call "inequality" and "discrimination". - "My body, my choice!" Sure! Except it's not your body that's getting torn apart by forceps or starved of nutrients, obviously, so it's not really your choice -- you're just taking it away from the baby. Not to mention that EVERY civilized society restricts the lesser right of autonomy in the event where it infringes upon another's primary right to life. (Otherwise, have fun explaining to people why you believe there shouldn't be any laws against assault, murder, rape, drinking and driving, etc.) - BONUS: "YOU'RE KILLING WOMEN!" Um, no -- you are. Where do you think women come from? Rocks? And feel free to look it up -- there is a difference between triage, tragedy, and murder. And in no medical case is an abortion the "treatment" necessary to save the mother's life -- oftentimes, it can actually put her in even more danger. Meanwhile, while the proponents of abortion have to either write essays and essays futilely attempting to claim otherwise to maintain the moral high ground OR abandon it altogether and lean into the whole infanticide-worshipping cult thing, me and any other pro-lifer can state our position as a whole pretty simply without having to do any of those things. It goes like this: "Hi! It's wrong to murder babies. Please stop doing it."

like one of the comments on that post is "listen to trans women when they tell you its transphobic" and like...im a trans woman! i didnt care! in the context of the episode it was a joke and made sense and i laughed! There was zero indication he was speaking about trans people!

im in the ace spectrum (ive been identifying as demisexual but Things have led me to question whether im not closer to being straight up ace), and i have a hard time defining romantic attraction, but ive been leaning towards panromantic. well, if im a panromantic ace, then the community is waiting for me w open arms. but what if i end up settling for heteromantic? well, according to these people, ‘u cant sit w us’. [¾]

apparently, being ace is not enough. even though, when straight people ask me my orientation, i dont feel safe enough to explain. i expected people in the lgbt community to be the ones who would understand me, understand others like me. but in this current climate, it just feels like we dont belong anywhere. (sorry for the venting, ur one of the only blogs i follow that speaks up on ace exclusion and ur nice so im not (that) scared of talking to u lol. i hope ur having a nice day ♥) [4/4]

Hi anon ☺️ unfortunately it seems like your first ask got eaten up by tumblr but I think i still got the gist of your message and I understand. It’s as you say: Cis heteromantic aces who want to be part of the lgbt community usually have a reason for wanting to whether its because of the mental stress they undergo worrying about their orientation, the constant misunderstandings and abuse they face from ppl who don’t understand or just plain hate asexuality, their experiences going against heteronormativity, etc. And its lacking compassion to say “no you don’t belong here”.

And the thing here is that, are there aces and aros who do or say shit in lgbtq spaces that aren’t excusable? Yes. But this literally applies to people of any other orientation(s)and gender identity(ies) as well because we all have the capability to fuck up. And yet an exclusionist’s response to this is, instead of focusing on educating ppl so that there are less of these fuck-ups, to completely exclude aspec ppl, basically saying that aspec itself as an identity is “problematic” which honestly just…fuck you

Luckily RL =/= Tumblr discourse. I don’t know where you live, so your situation might be different, but at least the main lgbtq orgs in the US, China, and Japan do recognize and accept aspecs. Since few people really understand it though, you will always have people asking you about asexuality and it can get overwhelming (like me whenever I have to explain what gray-romantic means). But this is a sign that things are slowly turning around so hold on there anon!!

and then I’ve seen some arguments that make me uncomfortable as a nb gay person

and I’ve seen people, most anti-ace, tagging random ass posts or discourse posts as “ace pos/tivity” and?? they have said that they’re cool if aro/ace ppl make their own communities but they are purposefully invading those communities which is not cool