āAphobia discourse endedā butā¦
you still think aspec representation is a loss for queer representation.
you still canāt see a character with no romantic or sexual interests and interact with them without shipping them.
you still donāt accept people who are aplatonic, afamial, or any other kind of nonrose anattractional.
you still donāt accept alloaces and alloaros, people who are oriented aroace, people who are cupidosexual or cupioromantic, etc.
you still donāt accept hetero aspecs.
you still associate asexuality and aromanticism with whiteness, thinness, conformity, etc.
you still think of arormanticism as something that only occurs in tandem with asexuality.
you still think of aspec adults as lesser than allo adults, infantilize them, etc.
Maybe the discourse did end. But the bigotry hasnāt gone away.