greenchestnuts:
The pharmaceutical quest to give women a better sex life.
This is eight pages long but I found it a very interesting read, and more nuanced than I expected. They quote Dr. Lori Brotto, who’s also done a lot of asexuality research.
Also, it took me several pages to realize that the photos were orgasm faces. I thought the women were just making weird faces for the heck of it.
For the record, this one came up in journal club today. Transcript will go up Monday.
I, also, did not initially realize they were orgasm faces until the second page! Mostly I was too busy being creeped out by the pills themselves.
I’ve heard similar sentiments from a whole bunch of people now. How disappointing. :(
Yeaaah, a few people tried to warn me but I didn’t listen because I wanted to read the fic after seeing the movie. Just… don’t waste your money. The actors appear to have done their best with what they had but the writing is appalling, the lens-flare/shaky-camera stuff is even more egregious than last movie, and the pacing was a hot mess. There were also several moments of serious narm.
Also, the whole racefail thing. Having Cumberbatch—arguably the most fishbelly white dude I have ever seen—play the role of a guy named Khan was utterly, surreally stupid. I mean, it would have been bad even if he hadn’t been whitewashing the character, it was just daft.
It was really, really, really bad, I encourage you not to make the same mistake. BRB, going to bury myself in where_no_women now.
“I wish I was asexual, too! My love life sucks right now. Things must be so much easier for you!”
It’s a staple of online spaces using tagging systems, most notably twitter and tumblr, as people venting about their personal lives gets dumped into asexual tags, usually unintentionally. And on the internet, it often leaves allosexual people backpedaling in startled embarrassment as angry asexual people yell at them. Let’s talk about why.
I wrote a post for the Asexual Agenda last night! Go check it out.
Also, as a note, the Agenda is still looking for contributors and guest posts! If you’re interested, please email asexualagenda [at] gmail.com!
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angrybisexual:
anthean:
writingfromfactorx:
angrybisexual:
…unless we also mean asexuals.
There already is an umbrella term, widely used for some time now, which most people understand in a similar way… “bisexuals”.
Is this a thing? I mean, as an asexual I had always assumed I was included when people said “non-monosexual,” and a lot of what I see people talk about when they discuss monosexism is pretty applicable to us, too. Is that generally elided in bisexual/pansexual centered spaces?
(Honest question. I’ve been debating writing something about comparing asexuality to bisexuality for a bit, but before I do I’d want to think more about how the two communities interact with one another.)
Huh, and I had always assumed I was not included when people said “non-monosexual”. Put me down as another person who’s curious about this.
Well, technically non-monosexual includes aces, but in practice the term is often used to mean bisexuals in the broad sense, since pansexuals often insist that they have a separate sexuality (a difference I don’t really see…). That is why I think bisexuals shouldn’t use the term unless we actually mean all non-monosexuals, so we don’t participate in ace-erasure.
Thanks for the clarification! Unfortunately, that sounds pretty much par for the course when sexual orientation gets discussed in non-specifically-asexual spaces—if we’re lucky we get a bit of lip service, but then the conversation continues apace as if we don’t exist again.
angrybisexual:
…unless we also mean asexuals.
There already is an umbrella term, widely used for some time now, which most people understand in a similar way… “bisexuals”.
Is this a thing? I mean, as an asexual I had always assumed I was included when people said “non-monosexual,” and a lot of what I see people talk about when they discuss monosexism is pretty applicable to us, too. Is that generally elided in bisexual/pansexual centered spaces?
(Honest question. I’ve been debating writing something about comparing asexuality to bisexuality for a bit, but before I do I’d want to think more about how the two communities interact with one another.)
raggedybearcat:
with the exception of
Ron’s Patronus is a Jack Russel Terrier, which are know for chasing otters. Hermione’s Patronus happens to be an otter.
Jack Russell Terriers chase EVERY SINGLE THING IN EXISTENCE including hares, swans, cats, probably wild boars and stags and wolves I can’t remember other patronuses but I’m sure JRTs would chase them. They were designed to chase foxes, and they’ve probably been used in otter hunting but that’s not their purpose. THEY ARE TOO BRAVE TO BE SENSIBLE. IT’S PROBABLY A GRYFFINDOR METAPHOR IF ANYTHING. Them chasing otters is the stupidest connection you can draw.
I swear to god this is the Toothed Pteranodon Toy of my time here on Tumblr, a petty insignificant thing that fills me with so much rage while no one else gives a crap because it is so petty and insignificant.
I had a Jack Russell Terrier who attempted to eat a deer when I was young, so I can confirm the stags thing! They are pretty sure that they are really about three hundred pounds apiece, and also entirely invincible.
anthean:
ace-muslim:
queenieofaces:
This post has been cross-posted to The Asexual Agenda.
A while back there was this big kerfuffle on tumblr* about how aces are secretly harmful to LGB folks. One of the main arguments was that LGB folks have internalized heterosexism, and thus use the asexual community to hide from their sexuality. Now, I’m not really interested in getting into the whole “are aces harmful to LGB folks” debate, because that thing is a can of worms—a can of flesh-eating, fire-breathing, radioactive worms, that is. But the idea of hiding from one’s sexuality in the ace community had me raising my eyebrows so far that they were practically flying off my face, and all I could think was, Have you ever spent any time in the ace community? If I wanted to hide from my sexuality, the asexual community is the last place I’d go. Here’s why:
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This is very much on point!
excellent post!
(didn’t there used to be a joke about how the first thing anyone did after coming out as asexual was develop their own model of sexuality?)
Were there sketches of the ‘i’m on a boat’ model? I think I remember sketches.
