Privilege Denying Asexuals

saltmarshhag:

privilegedenyingasexuals:

You know, just while I’m at it.

I hate the Tumblr asexual community. I hate the concept of demisexuality. I hate ~queer heteroromantic asexuals~. I hate people who think not wanting to have sex in and of itself makes them just as oppressed as LGBT people. I hate the appropriation of the pink triangle.

But if there is one thing I hate more than Tumblr asexuals, it’s off-Tumblr Tumblr sexuals. By which I mean sexual people who use Tumblr, taking their Tumblr politics onto other sites like Livejournal and Dreamwidth. These people are all wound up and ready to pounce every time the word “asexual” is so much as whispered.

“Why do asexuals have to be such special snowflakes?” they’ll demand the instant they see the slightest discussion of asexuality crop up. “Why do they always have to play Oppression Olympics and act like they’re more oppressed than queers? Ugh, demisexuality is so stupid!” they will add, even if nobody had even mentioned demisexuality up until this point.

When you do this, if you do this, you are the problem, not the innocent non-Tumblr asexuals you just jumped all over for no reason. When you bust out the “Queers are more oppressed than asexies!” line even when nobody had been claiming otherwise, you are the one playing Oppression Olympics.

Just some food for thought.

It didn’t originate on Tumblr though. I’ve watched a lecture/training by that David Jay neckbeard himself and it’s all right there - the entitlement, the denialism, the appropriation of the holocaust triangle, the absolute stupidity about the effect patriarchy has on all women’s sexuality, etc. I encountered obnoxious asexuals well before I came onto Tumblr. So yeah. I generalize. 

Are you admitting to being one of those kneejerky assholes who jumps all over someone who says the word “asexual” in any context?