Are asexuals 'fake oppressed'? **Mod Note in Post #221**

Not me, guv - it's posters above who brought in LGBT references. Take it up with them.

What she said in the OP is nothing at all except for people with no sense of humour. Or who are desperately trying to find reasons to hate her - which is what I assumed you were doing with your very general remark.

If you really were referring only to that one tweet, then maybe explain that why one single tweet makes her a dick?

Maybe start with why people with a low sex drive need a day of awareness in the first place, and whether it may be counterproductive to have multiple days of awareness for all sorts of character traits that have little effect on people's interactions with most of those around them? (I'm assuming that you, like most of us, will ever have sex with only a tiny proportion of the people we actually spend time with in our daily lives?)

It is more insidious than that. A lot of our internet interactions are manufactured to get us hooked to watch ads. A topic is created, if it does not get enough traction, a fake controversy is engineered. Trump is the embodiment of this approach. Immigrants are not "horrible" enough to be used a scapegoat in the USA? Say that they eat dogs and cats. Everyone is ambivalent about asexuals having a visibility day? Release the kraken Rowling on them.

The more pertinent question is whether you like to celebrate. Are you are celebratophile or an acelebrator? If you like to celebrate, then why not celebrate all the days when you feel like partying. Throw a party for the asexual visibility day. Then another one for the Black History Month. Then another for the Mother's Day.

I already explained but to be clear: I don't agree or disagree with things depending onhow much they affect me personally: I think that having a day of awareness is a good thing as long as it's used sparingly, or it soon becomes meaningless as they all merge into each other.

I think the people who most want lots and lots of days of awareness are mostly people who see a commercial gain in it for them - people who make flags, tee shirts etc.

If you think it makes me a mean person to say we should be very sure of why a particular character trait needs a day of awareness before adding it to the calendar, so be it.

Savile used that as an alibi to get access to sick children. Lots of people knew that that the time but the groupthink on the BBC and in the establishment mean that anyone who questioned him was an outcast: look at John Lydon who was banned from the BBC for calling him out:

And the "official" response to Rowling is far closer to how they reacted to Lydon than to Savile.

But if you have the tiniest bit of evidence that she is using her charity activities to access victims, please do let the police know.

When did JK Rowling decide being an utter c*nt was going to be her whole personality.

Where exactly is the harm in someone who is asexual hearing other people talk about it? Even if hearing there was other people identifying as asexual were to help one person, who may feel they are not normal because they dont have sexual desire, its worth it. And it impacts absolutely no one else.

Okay, thing is you're making no effort to understand why it is meaningful to the grouping. Like it's entirely up to the group to acknowledge the day or not, the fact that they do makes it meaningful for them. You might not get that which is perfectly fine but there's no authority that controls awareness days cause that would be a tad silly.

Well I must have missed all the explanations then! Maybe you can point me to them - cos the only ones I've seen are about consent, which as I've said is important enough to need proper treatment, not be limited only to people who never want sex full stop.

Someone who doesn't want sex with someone is entitled not to have sex with them. That should be true whether it's no sex with that one person, or no sex with everyone else they've ever met. If someone with zero sex drive feels lonely and isolated, then they should either get therapy (if they want to change that) or set up a group for like minded people, if they don't but just want to meet other people with whom they don't want to have sex.

Although I thought that was called a Bridge club.

But I have yet to see a single reason for a, asexual day of awareness that wouldn't be better served another way. And as I said several times now - and again nobody has explained why they think this is wrong, so I'm assuming they can't - days of awareness should not be overused or they all risk becoming invisible and therefore pointless.

People have been asking questions about them here. I think it's explanatory why they need it. And you're assuming that everyone has your extensive knowledge about it.

Are you annoyed that they have a day of awareness, that you weren't even aware of, until Rowling bitched about it?

Mmm. So on the one hand you're telling me I have extensive knowledge of the issue, and in the next paragraph, telling me that I'm annoyed about the same issue about which I knew nothing until someone posted about it the other day?

Okaaay. I think I'll leave you to your own "logic".

And the "official" response to Rowling is far closer to how they reacted to Lydon than to Savile.

What official response? 😂

She is being an absolute díck, this isn't very complicated.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=GC

Abbreviation for "Gender Critical", another term for TERF, which are people who believe that women can only be women if they are AFAB (Assigned Female at Birth).

Oh no, is this whole a sexual thing one of these new transgender identities?

Just saw Terf & "assigned at birth" which gives the game away. Does this mean we have to add the A to the LGBTQ+A

I think it's worth pointing out that the only person who said oppression is JK Rowling herself

I didn't spot anything in the post about asexual awareness that spoke to any form of oppression

In fact it literally just defined the meaning of asexuality as far as I can tell, nothing more

Also, it's an awareness day. As in, being aware of the concept and its meaning so you are better informed

This frankly seems like JK being an attention seeker as usual and trying to stir up some controversy over a nothing burger