#ace culture is lesbophpbic

[demisexualmeansnormal]

Even Frollo has a fair dose of gay coding, in spite of the sexual frustration regarding Esmerelda.

Effeminate mannerisms

Delicate features

Ostensibly celibate cos Church (granted, in the novel, he's an Archdeacon, and it's been an open secret for centuries that many LGBT people entered the Church to deny their nature and avoid persecution)

Contrasts with the Manly Man of Phoebus, and to a lesser extent, Quasimodo, the heroes

It's subtle, especially compared to the rest of the above, and while he's not listed on TV Tropes' page for "The Sissy Villain", he certainly fits MUCH of that description (they even note that this kind of character is actually usually portrayed as "sexually ambiguous," but sometimes is even written as hetero).

Happy Asexual Awareness Week

Also it seems that our colors are always associated with villains, why is that?

[demisexualmeansnormal]

I've noticed that this "discomfort with PDA" is disproportionately directed at SGA couples. Like, of these people want LGBT spaces, why do LGBT people doing what these spaces are supposed to be safe for make them so uncomfortable?

One of the points of LGBT community spaces is to create safer spaces to show affection, because other spaces can produce violent reactions against SGA-PDA. If you don't want to see that in LGBT spaces, then you're practically saying that LGBT people are only safe in the closet. Fuck that.

sexual? it’s a kiss! it’s literally pg

[demisexualmeansnormal]

Yes.

Have you noticed that a lot of ace arguments are only against LGBT people? Like I don't see them trying to advocate against their supposed oppressors like the government and society in general. Just harassing LGBT kids on the internet saying they deserve to die because they don't want their safe spaces invaded

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[demisexualmeansnormal]

It's literally not just admitting that they want to be oppressed, but also basically blaming LGBT people for why we're oppressed, you know?

Like, it's both textbook victim-blaming AND demanding to be the victim, all at once.

I’m ace and tired

You know what? Y'all are absolutely right. Aces aren’t oppressed simply because of the fact that we are ace.

But I do want y'all to take a step back and think why? Why haven’t we been rejected for being ace? When you KNOW that people have been beaten or killed for denying sex. When you KNOW that people are beaten and killed and ostracized for insinuating that they MIGHT be part of the LGBT community.

It’s probably because we’re invisible. You can’t opress a community that you don’t know exists. The ace community is JUST beginning to be known within the LGBT community. Even then whenever we come out as ace, we get this look of pure confusion. And then when we explain asexuality and what it means we either get more confusion, a complete dismissal, or a “Maybe you haven’t found the right person yet :)”