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Asexual Pride movement is growing fast

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  • #32
    mansize
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,521 ✭✭✭✭mansize


    osarusan wrote: »
    It's mentioned in the BBC article in the OP.

    That one person wasn't aware of asexuality?


  • #33
    mansize
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    I have no issues with Asexual people I can't imagine many would


  • #34
    Stealthfins
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    Well I suppose the A sexuals don't offend any religion or establishment really.


  • #35
    mansize
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    As long as they don't marry and fail to procreate- that might annoy some religions


  • #36
    drunkmonkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,506 ✭✭✭✭drunkmonkey


    Speedwell wrote: »
    The acronym is now, I understand, QUILTBAG. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/QUILTBAG

    That's so much easier say, i'm sure someone is going to be offered though being referred to as a quiltbag.
    Can just here George Hook saying it...


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  • #37
    osarusan
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    mansize wrote: »
    That one person wasn't aware of asexuality?

    That when one person called a 'gay switchboard', they weren't given the understanding they might have expected from a representative of a community who had had their own struggles.

    Maybe that's not what you were looking for evidence of?


  • #38
    mansize
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    drunkmonkey wrote: »
    That's so much easier say, i'm sure someone is going to be offered though being referred to as a quiltbag.
    Can just here George Hook saying it...

    I think that's an umbrella name for the group. Not individuals


  • #39
    mansize
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    osarusan wrote: »
    That when one person called a 'gay switchboard', they weren't given the understanding they might have expected from a representative of a community who had had their own struggles.

    Maybe that's not what you were looking for evidence of?

    Well gay isn't assexual - I know there are Lesbian switchboards that wouldn't best address male gay queries


  • #40
    drunkmonkey
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    mansize wrote: »
    I think that's an umbrella name for the group. Not individuals

    Yea a group, blessed be the quiltbags.


  • #41
    mansize
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    Do the asexuals get a hard time from the gays, straights or both My Name is URL?


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  • #42
    mansize
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    drunkmonkey wrote: »
    Yea a group, blessed be the quiltbags.

    Quilt bag just feels hot and sweaty in this weather


  • #43
    osarusan
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    mansize wrote: »
    Well gay isn't assexual - I know there are Lesbian switchboards that wouldn't best address male gay queries

    Would they tell them that 'male homosexuality doesn't exist' in the way that the asexual person was told that 'asexuality doesn't exist'?


  • #44
    smash
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    I wonder if the church will be out to recruit?


  • #45
    mansize
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    osarusan wrote: »
    Would they tell them that 'male homosexuality doesn't exist' in the way that the asexual person was told that 'asexuality doesn't exist'?

    I thought it was they weren't aware of it. I would imagine that person the call would be screened and appropriate retraining etc


  • #46
    mansize
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    Anyway. I've no beef with the asexuals,so I'm out.


  • #47
    HensVassal
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    Pat Mustard wrote: »
    Bunch of twats going around marching for no reason.

    It's the Orange Order, isn't it?

    That's just one colour in the rainbow flag


  • #48
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,626 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    mansize wrote: »
    Do the asexuals get a hard time from the gays, straights or both My Name is URL?

    I don't think it's so much that they get a hard time from individuals. It's more groups that have had an issue with asexuals aligning themselves with them for whatever reason.

    It says in that BBC article that things are changing now anyway, so maybe it's not as evident as it once was.

    There's plenty of discussion and articles online about the subject. I'm just going off what I've been told by one guy so don't take what I've said as gospel.


  • #49
    MilesMorales1
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    I'm asexual and have been for as long as I can remember, zero sexual desire, zero romantic desire, makes it very hard to connect with people on a lot of levels. Can't say I'll be marching in pride about it though.


  • #50
    NegativeCreep
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    NikoTopps wrote: »
    There is an umbrella term, albeit one not advocated by all people - Queer.

    It's actually what the first Q in LGBTQQIA+ stands for, the other being Questioning.

    I'm gay and had no idea there were any other letters than LGBT.

    Who has time to learn all that? :L


  • #51
    smash
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    NegativeCreep wrote: »
    Who has time to learn all that? :L

    Social Justice Idiots.


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  • #52
    jimmycrackcorm
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    Tinder for asexuals. Swipe left if you don't care, swipe right if you don't care.


  • #53
    frag420
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Can we just come up with an umbrella term for LGBTQIA? It'll eventually get to the point when more and more ones get added that you just lose track.

    If they add any more letters to the name its going to become a damn vision test...


  • #54
    Permabear
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    This post has been deleted.


  • #55
    [Deleted User]
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    HensVassal wrote: »
    :pac:

    "We're here, we're frigid! Our cocks are never rigid!"

    "We're here, we're placid, everything down there is flaccid"


  • #56
    drunkmonkey
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    Permabear wrote: »
    This post had been deleted.

    Scratching my head at that one.


  • #57
    [Deleted User]
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    NikoTopps wrote: »
    There is an umbrella term, albeit one not advocated by all people - Queer.

    It's actually what the first Q in LGBTQQIA+ stands for, the other being Questioning.

    Wait, what's the + for?


  • #58
    Debtocracy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 206 ✭✭Debtocracy


    The more technical term for people with no desire for sexual activity is 'married'


  • #59
    pl4ichjgy17zwd
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    Asexuality has always been in included in any kind of LGBT activism I've been involved in but it could definitely do with being more talked about.

    It is also in fact possible to be both asexual and gay. Not all asexual people are aromantic and continue to have romantic feelings towards one gender or both and could identify as gay, straight or bi (or perhaps another label).

    There are also all varieties of grey or demi asexuals who experience limited sexual desire and would also have a preference.

    It's not as simple as saying they're two separate groups.


  • #60
    seamus
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    mansize wrote: »
    I have no issues with Asexual people I can't imagine many would
    You'd be surprised just how often people feel like they have a right to pass comment or judgement. And how hilarious they think they're being by taking the piss out of people.

    Look at this thread - full of jokes about limp cocks and virgins.

    Ten years ago that was jokes about taking it up the arse, being really effeminate and dressing up in women's clothes.

    The jokes in this thread are the same kind of negative nonsense from immature morons, just with a different focus.

    Which is basically exactly what an "asexual pride" event is designed to counter - to show to everyone that not having any sexual desire is not wrong, that declaring oneself to be asexual shouldn't something that makes anyone think of them as defective or "not full human".

    If you step back and examine the massive focus that sex gets in society - not just advertising, but how much everyday conversation revolves around it. It's completely invasive. Now imagine not being able to relate to people.

    For me, it would be like the rest of the world (and I mean like 95% of it) talking about fashion for all or part of every day. Every second ad, TV programmes and radio shows, every magazine, 24/7, all the time. I would feel completely lost and probably a bit crazy that I was so unable to relate to everyone else.


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  • #61
    retro:electro
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    They didn't choose the a sexual life, the a sexual life chose them


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