Seeing the word "aceys" feels like getting blind-sided by a truck, I know that isn't the most important thing but genuinely what. the. FUCK. Is that... Is that actually a term used?
I mean, I’ve seen it in the most repulsive posts so I was using it as a way to sort of model that attitude and voice that, at its most extreme, is belittling and deeply disrespectful of others’ agency and self-determination. They also don’t like to differentiate between asexual and aromantic people so its a convenient way for them to erase all of that shit. Here’s just like. one sample of usage from a quick google search.
and of course i find it as a recent reblog on a blog with this description:
like honestly at this point who knows if it’s a troll, by nature of harassing real people (and like, this blog has made red/flagged status on Shinigamieyes, which means its been reviewed by real humans and determined to be transphobic) and having whole discourse sideblogs for this shit it becomes real