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

The point of awareness days and the like is to, well, make people aware that something exists. I'm surprised that had to be explained. There's multiple people in the thread with no clue what asexual means are pretty clear evidence there is not much awareness. Denying that happened is hilarious.

It people don't care for it, that's fine. They can ignore it and move on. But honestly having an issue and/or pretending it's not real is weird. The point of awareness to partial normalise. That obvious upsets Rowling as the adjacent to other sex/gender awareness and acceptance.

Rowling was being a dick. She had become a very bitter person. And morphed from a feminist role model, into a bit of a laughing stock like many others. She wasn't just making a joke, she doesn't try to hide her agenda in subtlety.

It's neither?

I believe that it's purely about the desire to have sex. So one could be straight or gay and be asexual. I'm not asexual but the best way i can describe it is that in most of the times I've been in a relationship I've not been having sex. Most of the time is spent dating, holding hands on walks etc. I'd imagine an asexual can still be into all that stuff and yet have no desire for sex. And therefore they could still be attracted to one gender and at the same time not be sexually attracted to them.

Ooof.

I believe this is what the young people refer to as "throwing shade"

Pretty easy for you to continue to ignore it but apparently want to participate in a discussion about it instead…

By the latter you mean someone with a low/no sex drive, right?

Why on earth would anyone need an awareness day for this? Do we need an awareness day for people who never have any desire to eat peanuts? People who don't like running? A "No sports day"?

And, more importantly, is an Awareness day meant to achieve anything other than sell cheap t-shirts and Chinese-made flags? If so, shouldn't we limit them to, you know, things that need awareness in the general public? Not people's sex drive, which IMO is just someone's individual personality. If it's even that.

Who said I was hurt? You replied to me saying you didn't want to know anything. You're the person that went out of your way to complain that you learned about asexuality day of awareness.

And who told you their lack of sexual attraction? Did someone, completely unprompted, tell you about their lack of sexual attraction? Because I agree, walking up to someone and saying that is weird. I'd feel the same if someone just told me they were straight/gay/bi without any context.

However I'm not annoyed when I click into a thread about asexuals and see stuff about asexuals.

What's a 'GC Gay?' can't say I've heard of that one before.

Those 'stupid books' made her a billionaire, of which she's donated in excess of £100 million (I believe) to charities.

I hardly think thats a bad thing?

A million and one people ridiclued "Asexuality Awareness Day" but someone decided to make this all about JK Rowling as if she is some kind of outlier. We see you.

I understand that you have no interest in sex, I understand what asexual means.
Was asking if you would still have the capacity for platonic relationships, and if your interest was one way or the other.

If an older couple loses their sex drive, to become essentially sexless - they are still presumably straight (or gay).

…are we looking at some sort of personality disorder here!