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heartless-aro · 14 days ago

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People when a character is aromantic or aromantic coded: Wowie! They’re aroACE! Because they aren’t interested in romance! Look at how aroace they are!

People when a character is aroace or aroace coded: Isn’t it cool that this character is asexual? Asexual icon! They’re such great asexual representation :)

#aro #aromantic #ace #asexual #aroace #alloaro #it feels like there’s this weird mindset of #if a character is aro then they MUST be ace too #and if they’re aroace then the ace part is all that matters!#and of course aplatonicism is never even mentioned as a possibility in fandom spaces (even with characters like Saiki who is apl coded af)#hell. even with real life people who have come out as aromantic #if someone comes out as aromantic they’re assumed to be asexual as well #and if someone is openly aroace it’s very common that people emphasize the ace part over the aro part #and while I get that some people do talk more about their asexuality than their aromanticism #it’s still weird to me that like #for example #Yasmin Benoit is one of the most prolific aromantic activists AND one of the most prolific asexual activists #yet I rarely ever see people mention that she’s aromantic or aroace. Everyone always just says “oh she’s asexual” and leaves it at that #her aromantic activism seems to just get ignored even with how much of it she’s done #when trying to find news sources talking about aromanticism for a research project about half of them were interviews #with Yasmin Benoit! she’s done so much work for the aromantic community #yet even in her Wikipedia article which describes her as an “asexual and aromantic activist” in the very first sentence #the section on her activism doesn’t include the words aromantic or aromanticism even ONCE.#like. yeah she does emphasize her asexuality a lot more than her aromanticism. but her aromantic activism should be acknowledged too

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