The whole “kids can’t be ace” is disturbing on a totally different plane.
Like, it could very well be truscum like fear springing up of “ meh meh meh too many identities ur all just trying to be cool when you’re really not these identities,” but the other option, which seems really fucking obvious to me, is that these people clearly don’t see asexuality as a real orientation. They think of it as some sort of cult that aces are initiating people into or some bullshit.
I don’t know how you can divorce this logic from its homophobic origins, but there it is. They push these ideas that learning about asexuality will somehow brainwash kids into identifying as ace. They think kids exposed to one of many options somehow will convince them to pick this one, or that aces are somehow recruiting lmao.
Someone identifying as ace has good fucking reasons. They have to recognize a difference between them and the people around them to even be looking for a label, and age doesn’t make that label any less useful in their situations. Ace kids are going to identify as ace.
The others who you seem to think are adopting “new” identities willy nilly because somehow the stigma of it makes it appealing (???) are certainly no more likely to choose asexuality over any other identity.
Its disturbing, because it’s clear y’all think two things: that asexuality is a club they’re “recruiting” to, not a real inborn identity that people have no control over just like any other orientation, and that its not an identity people should be using ever regardless. That people should not learn about it even if they are ace.
People, of any age, have a right to choose the words to describe their experiences, and people looking for those words have the right to be educated about them. I don’t know who died and made you decide you could be the grand judges of what realities people are allowed to learn about, but restricting access to identities in some sort of power play is directly from the book of your oppressors and nothing else. It won’t stop aces from realizing themselves; but it WILL make a bunch of young people confused, ostracized and alone, much longer than they need to be.
Tag: aphobia
I don’t normally post tweet screencaps here, but now that I’ve got your attention: YouTube is fucking over LGBTQ content creators.
Their “restricted mode” (basically their age restriction settings) BLOCKS half my videos. Videos blocked include “Signs You Might Be Asexual Spectrum”, “Dating Asexual People” and “The Person Who Sent You This is Asexual”. Basically ALL my most educational videos on asexuality are unavailable.
I am by far not the only content creator effected. Whatever algorithm YouTube is using to decide what’s safe for kids and what isn’t is blatantly anti-LGBTQ. Age restrictions shouldn’t be use to block sex and relationship education.
