#mainstreamcatholicism

Hi I'm the anon when sent the "single is aphobic" thing and I heard it firsthand from a lecture I accidentally attended. He said it implied a natural progression of loniness > sexual interest > sexual desire > relationship > sexual gratification > marriage > eternal happiness and that with all the aspects of relationships that are sexually based it left out the experiences of ace/aro people and was a form of oppression to those individuals. I haven't been able to find it in an article or (1/

I'm at a lgbt conference right now and I was initially excited because my university is actually paying me to come as a representative and it's a conference and all and there's a lecture about invlusitivity of the plus in lgbt+ and I was excited until I saw David Jay walk in the room and now I'm dreading this lecture

At one point of his speech he brought up ace oppression and he started by saying that the oppression is different and then he went back and said that straight privilege is ace oppression. And he actually said that the term single insinuated a flow of events that eventually end in sexual gratification and therefore 'single' is ace oppression. He actually said that. I was seething with rage the whole time honestly and the host said "I want to plan a whole conference around you" I wanted to puke

hey it may not be much but your response on the post about the politics of being nonbinary REALLY helped me understand some of my own feeling of my gender and realize some of the reasons I get weird about classifying myself in some political and lgbt spaces. I just wanted to say thank you for that