Privilege Denying Asexuals - An open letter to tumblr “queer hetero-romantic” asexuals

The point of this blog is the following:

1) There is no such thing as "sexual privilege".
2) Cisgender hetero* people are not queer, whether or not they are asexual.
3) "Demisexuality" is a bullshit "orientation" that is nothing more than thinly-veiled slut-shaming.

I don’t believe there is such a thing as asexual privilege. This blog’s name (and the “Asexual privilege checklist”) are a tongue-in-cheek response to the “Sexual Privilege” checklist. I know no one is going to actually acknowledge that I said this — I’ve said it a million times before after all — but it’s worth a shot.

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June 2nd, 2011 at 2:38PM

An open letter to tumblr “queer hetero-romantic” asexuals

Do you even know where the word ‘straight’ came from? It came from us. From the queer community. At first it meant ex-gays, people who had ‘gone straight’, and then it just meant heteros. It’s our word, do you understand that? We defined it, we still define it. We said “straight” when we talked about heteros who were calling us f*gs and d*kes, and we say “straight” when we’re talking about hetero aces who are calling us trolls and haters and barnacles. When you make posts about how “the queers will never win” we call you straight. You are straight because you are hetero and you are straight because you are attacking us and you are straight because you will never bring us down.

I’m not saying you don’t have problems. Let me repeat that because y’all seem to have convinced yourselves we don’t believe it. ASEXUALITY IS REAL AND IT CAUSES YOU PROBLEMS. But you “queer het” aces on tumblr who have been attacking queers, you can’t pick and choose which of our words are real. You can’t have queer without straight and we get to say who’s straight.

We’ve fought straights for a long, long time. Do you really think, just because your internet buddies are giving you asspats on tumblr, that we’re going to let you demonize and dehumanize us?

WE ARE HERE.

WE ARE QUEER.

WE’RE NOT GOING ANYWHERE.

We are real people whether you want to believe it or not. You are straight and you are cowards.