"Are cishet ace/aro men queer" holy fuck you people are just awful huh. Really just showing that we haven't moved past the Basically Straight ideology.
As a cisgender, heteroromantic ace individual myself, allow me to tell you a little bit about myself.
I spent most of my life wondering what was wrong with me. I knew very quickly that many of the people who confessed their love for me would not want me the moment they found out I was averse to sex. I would daydream of various men I'd had crushes on over the years spending time with me in ways I was comfortable, but rarely did I confess my feelings because a simple saying rang in my ears.
"You'll never find a man who will love you without sex."
And the people in my Instagram DMs who would call me baby and then ghost me after they figured out the flag in my profile picture spoke volumes to that. I was only desirable because I was physically attractive. No one wanted to love my personality, not if they couldn't also fuck me. It just wasn't an option.
I have been ostracized. I have been told I don't belong. The straight community does not want me because I do not actively desire sex. The very people you're trying to lump me in with because I'm "basically straight" will not claim me because I am not like them.
I am The Other. I am Less Than. I am Strange. I am Queer.
A person born male, who identifies as a man, and is attracted to women exclusively but only in one way (romantic) or the other (sexual) is queer.
That is a man who either does not desire sex, and is therefore Not Really A Man by society's gender standards and expectations, or does not desire a romantic relationship/wife/girlfriend and is called a manwhore dirtbag who sleeps around or is asked eternally by family and maybe partners who don't get it When He's Going To Get Married.
To be straight requires you to identify with your gender assigned at birth, to feel romantic attraction to the opposite gender exclusively, to feel sexual attraction to the opposite gender exclusively, and to only desire monogamy in that relationship.
A man, born a man, who is not romantically attracted women, but sexually attracted to them, is not straight.
A man, born a man, who is romantically attracted to women, but not sexually attracted to women, is not straight.
There is no debate. Yes, even the Demisexuals and Demiromantics. Yes, even the ones who are capable of feeling these things only under the right conditions.
They're all queer. Every single one. Because they deviate from the idea that Every Man Wants To Fuck A Woman And Be A Loving Husband By Default.
If you disagree with any part of this post get the fuck off my blog. If you try to start shit in the notes or in my asks you're getting blocked.
We're here. We're queer. Fucking deal with it.
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For What It's Worth - read on ao3
As he and the former Minister of Intelligence set his affairs in order, Cipher Nine reflects on his career.
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The horror he’d endured in the wake of that accomplishment, the unapologetic abuse that had led him to walk open-eyed into a bureaucratic death—it had all been one long, agonizing descent from there, but in that brief, shining moment on the Dominator, his determination, his skill, his presence had meant something.
Maybe that was all any of them could hope for: a fleeting instant of potency. To stand at that precipice and affect some semblance of justice.
He looked up. “I have a question.”
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I'm really sick of Thasmin being held to a higher standard than other doctor and companion ships. It's like people like to conveniently forget every other era in this show and make out like most of this is isolated to Thasmin, when in reality Thasmin is actually imo the Most Verbally Explicit doctor x companion ship in all of nu!who, Including the one where the doctor was actually married to the other person.
Like, hate it, whatever, but don't try and act like the other ships of this ilk were masterfully designed love stories where everybody is on the same page and the doctor is honest and open about their feelings, because that's blatantly false. 13 is nigh on unique for her honesty in lotsd.
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the way the maknae line will never be free from any of you fucking freaks is so maddening like they either have fetishists insisting every breath in each other’s direction means they fucked or you have so called “normal” fans calling these real life interactions between two best friends of ten+ years desperate grabs for attention like i need all of you to swallow rusty nails im dead serious. these are real people @ shippers!!!!!! who are best friends @ solos/”hypercritical” cunts!!!!!!!!!!!! SHUT UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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People. Say it with me, "Jensen is not Soldier Boy. Soldier Boy is a fictional character on a TV show. Jensen is NOTHING like Soldier Boy."
Now, take a deep breath in. Hold for a count of 10 and exhale. Then, go outside and touch some grass.
He's not a terrible person for playing a character on TV. You can choose to not watch the show. However, if you do watch the show, don't get mad at Jensen for playing a fictional character on a TV show known for being wildly inappropriate.
He can't play Dean Winchester forever.
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It was pretty funny when, during those frequent times in recent history where there's been a whole-ass mutiny in the Australian upper parliament and we get a new prime minister every other week, and I make the observation that if this happened in the US, or really any other country, there'd mass outrage and headlines about a failing government and whatever, and the reason it gets no attention when it happens here is because there's literally no difference between the political parties anyway, it makes no practical difference who is in government here, they just fighting over who gets the top job million dollar salary (the highest salary of any PM in the world btw), and every time I make this observation some neckbeard will be all 'wELL thE US ISn't tHE SAmE AS AUstraLIa' and I'll just be like, yes, actually, that's my point, the US has a robust legal and parliamentary system, and journalists with freedom of speech who know how to use it, and Australia does not have these things:)
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