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GaldraChevaliere wrote (edited )

It's LGBT. Queer as identity has always been a point of reclamation against a word that's targeted us. Intersex folk may or may not identify as queer to begin with, and the ones that do usually fit themselves under the T by refusing to cooperate with their coercively assigned gender.

There isn't an oppression in not wanting to fuck in a puritanical society that isn't a direct consequence of homophobia and misogyny. Ace folk will never have a law passed mandating they breed or go to jail, they will never be targeted by serial killers for their aceness or left buried in a pauper's grave without their true name on it because their aceness made society uncomfortable with itself. What they face is not oppression, because an ace cishet can live a perfectly happy life stomping on the faces of the LGBT folk below him.

But sure, let's keep inviting the people who are totally kweer you guys to our spaces so they can whinge about how gross and icky same-gender displays of affection are and use our words against us while claiming they can't possibly be homophobic/transmisogynistic because they're queer too. While LGBT aces should be allowed in LGBT circles and are entitled to the meager protections we can provide, they are entitled to them by virtue of being LGBT. An ace+aro or a cishet ace/aro is not LGBT, and should have no such expectation.

LGBT has never meant 'non-normal' and holy fuck what a heterocentric thing to say. It's meant and continues to mean a confederation of sexual and gender minorities directly oppressed by decades of violence against us.

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Pop wrote

I think we'll have to agree to disagree for now since I've run out of gas for this

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