like honestly the lgbt community isnt the sexual weirdos club. its the anti-cishet club. its literally a group of people who were brought together by shared experiences of Not Being Cishet. thats the whole point holy shit.
the problem with cishet aces is that they’re cishet. thats why they’re not lgbt. stop screaming aphobia when this has nothing to do with aces and aros at all.
…So what I’m getting from this is aroaces are lgbt+
I’ve quit checking ages today but the OP sounds so young lmao “people who were brought together by the shared experience of Not Being Cishet” “that’s the whole point” what kind of milquetoast ahistoric crap
I’m just glad there are folks actually preserving our community history so this sanitized bullshit isn’t all we have left
how is it ahistoric to say the lgbt community was formed by people who aren’t cishet for people who aren’t cishet?
#that’s literally what happened?
this is exactly what i’m talking about
this is an imaginary Candyland version of how our community came to be what it is
it ignores the struggles that even lesbians had to have in order to be recognized alongside gay men
it ignores the struggles bi/pan/ply people still have to be fully recognized and not just shunted out with accusations of passing privilege
it ignores the massive transphobia/transmisogyny that still goes on today, which resulted in the queer trans women of color who were instrumental at Stonewall being immediately shoved right back out of the community and having to fight for their position in it, which is still happening
it ignores that the riots happened at Stonewall which was full of QPOC because those QPOC weren’t welcome at other Gay establishments of the time
it imagines a golden age of harmony between all of our disparate members and our disparate communities
it imagines that the Queer community never existed, never defined itself by opposing the assimilationist politics of the rest of the community
it imagines a Great Charter in which we long ago clearly delineated who does and doesn’t belong with us, based on definitions we weren’t even using until a decade ago
it lets cis people within the community duck their cis privilege by painting “cishets” as the Ultimate Oppressors Of All Of Us so they don’t have to address that they are literal oppressors of trans people, literal oppressors who are right here in the community, alongside the people they oppress, every day
it ignores everything about our global community in favor of a not-even-real version of how shit went down in the USA
it ignores that ace people have been in the community for decades under the not-straight-not-gay definition of bi that is still used today in many places
it ignores so many other things that are foundational to us, and i’m honestly too tired to list them all. it imagines so many things that didn’t happen in order to pretend there was Harmony Until The Ace Nation Attacked and i’m so, so tired of it
Also, OP, Ace people aren’t “Sexual weirdos”.
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