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Asexuality resembles a sexual orientation that has been culturally conquered with the preference on how that conquering has manifested being for the mass majority of people to ignore, deny, or simply be completely unaware of its existence.

When someone is being acephobic, I've never seen anyone call them out when they've been acephobic towards me or any other asexual person I personally know, I've only seen a couple of examples online.

In terms of Asexual characters in pop culture, we are the least represented of the LGBTQ+...........

[en.wikipedia.org] Asexuals

A lack of representation leads to a lack of recognition and the increase in occurence for doubts and confusion regarding one's own sexual orientation. For example, for a long time I thought thta wanting children of my own to be a parent towards disqualified me from being asexual, but that's just as common for asexuals to want to be a parent as it is with everyone else.

If I had to guess, Queer people might come in second place for the least represented

For those whom are adequately represented, you are targeted and ostracized, but you are able to find and garner supporters because people arn't so in the dark about your LGBT+ identity and so they can more easily spot when you are being wronged. For asexuals, we have no fight to join to gain recognition, no large group of allies spreading awareness on us, in fact there is a mainstream umbrella statement treated as if fact that exempt us from being considered human ("Human beings are sexual creatures" ).

Allosexual (Meaning not asexual)

Allosexual specific aspects of culture are everywhere, if you are asexual, you have no choice than to be smothered by it, why? Because you are conquered before you ever even had the chance to fight.

Allosexuals will always assume by default that you are one of them, and if an accusation made against you can be refuted by mentioning that you are asexual, well tough cookies, no one will recognize that and you'll be thrown under the bus.

If you mention that you are asexual, well expect people to come out and start mocking you asking you if you are about to divide into more of yourself..... and no one will defend you, meanwhile if you defend yourself, defending yourself is often just going to get you labeled as toxic.

Secular_Squirrel 7 May 16
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Do asexual people really experience the hostility that homosexual and bisexual people do? I don't mean the deniers ("You're probably straight, and just haven't met the right one yet" ) but the outright phobic, "You shouldn't be this thing! Keep away from me and mine!" reaction?

The way I've always seen it, the hostile, phobic reactions are about who you're willing to have sex with, not who you aren't. Plenty of people have chosen to be bachelors and spinsters historically, I never realised there was a significant stigma to it, and always believed that any that there was, was typically connected with speculation that the person choosing not to have sexual relationships might be a closet homosexual.

And I think this is why it slips under the radar as a sexuality. A total disinterest in either sex isn't a threat to anyone in the same way that a same sex homosexual or bisexual being sexually interested in them might create a fear/threat response in some heterosexuals.

@Secular_Squirrel

Point 1 is hugely relatable. There's a whole branch of so-called feminism which is basically about hating and fearing (in roughly equal measure) anyone with a Y chromosome. Feminism to them is all about female superiority and male menace. And no, they don't like nice, non-rapey people with Y chromosomes who don't fit their narrative (in fact, I don't think they believe such people exist, and assume anyone who presents themselves that way is faking it.) In trans politics, we generally call these people TERFs. We don't like them very much.

Point 2 sounds like standard rejection backlash. That can happen to anyone when they turn down someone else for not being their type. There was an interesting video from a plus size woman on the subject of getting attention from men. Those men believing that larger women have no standards, and being quite affronted when it turns out that they do.

Point 3 I agree wholeheartedly. We need more asexuality awareness. And we need to stop treating asexuals as "just hetero, but not particularly interested in the opposite sex." Though the one benefit of that, as I mentioned earlier, is that it doesn't make you a threat. At least you don't have to deal with predatory males worrying that you might be thinking of them the way that they think of women.

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A very hard way to go be careful

bobwjr Level 10 May 17, 2019
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I am asexual and transsexual/transgender. So I am a super minority. I am even a super minority in the transgender community as I identify as transsexual. Transsexuality is a gender identity and asexual is a sexual identity. I also have aspergers.

Theresa_N Level 8 May 17, 2019
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I'm pondering what you've written here - and I can remember discussing this topic with my Mother who would have been 93 this year. She was well aware of what an asexual was. We discussed the topic. They have always existed.

Intelligent/informed people are as aware of that being a sexuality as other variations on the spectrum.

I'm surprised to hear of the mocking? Though if it's on Social Media? That wouldn't surprise me - people have knee jerk reactions to what they do not understand. (Like how Athiests eat babies).

Have you ever looked for support groups for asexuals? Perhaps they need one as badly as all the other folks represented by the Rainbow flag.

RavenCT Level 9 May 17, 2019

@Secular_Squirrel I can imagine. It's hard enough being atheist. Add any other "difference" and it makes it even harder. I value the groups I've found that are atheist and supportive of my differences.

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