How does my identifying as demisexual offend or threaten you/your identity? How is it that I, a person none of my followers and anyone else who finds this tumblr have ever met in real life, am somehow harming you with how I identify?
I do not understand why people get so upset over demisexuality…
It’s because there is nothing special about “only being attracted to people you have a strong emotional connection with”. Giving it a special name implies that it’s not the default, average sexuality. Giving it a special name implies that “sexual” people are somehow different from this.
There’s also the fact that it misrepresents what sexual orientation is. The X-sexuality terms refer to which gender(s) one is attracted to — hetero-sexuality, homo-sexuality, bi-sexuality, pan-sexuality, a-sexuality. “Demi” is not a gender. “Demisexuality” is not a sexual orientation any more than being kinky or polyamorous is a sexual orientation.
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skull-anarchy reblogged this from princekarkat and added:
True, some will not understand, and that is pretty normal I think
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princekarkat reblogged this from offensiveowl and added:
oi vey okay so the word itself isnt perfect, which has already been acknowledged by the demisexualy community. if you...
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