snake wrote (edited )
Reply to comment by meo in Is Ace exclusion against TOS? by mofongo
Straight women are also negatively effected by commonly held views about sexuality, as well as men who aren't 'macho'.
Ace people do not face oppression that is even similar to what gay and trans people face, and the queer community is essentially defined by that oppression and the response to it. Ace people have historically never been a part of that oppression or the resistance to it, and cishet aces are still far more privileged than gay or trans folx are. There's no reason to dedicate queer resources to cishet ace people.
Its not about some "threshold" but that's literally what "queer" has been defined by.
meo wrote (edited )
Straight women are also negatively effected by commonly held views about sexuality, as well as men who aren't 'macho'.
This is entirely ignoring that the difference between these two examples and ace people is that ace people are inherently a sexual minority.
The rest of what you're saying still boils down to “ace people just aren't systemically oppressed enough”. You think queer should be defined by the oppression we face, I think it should be defined by people's status as a gender, romantic or sexual minority. Anyway, I don't really have a stake in this because I don't trust cis queers much, so I don't even care a ton about the idea of a LGBTQ+ community.
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meo wrote (edited )
God why do I keep replying in this damned thread.
No I do not think that minority status is based on numbers, and I think that would be clear considering how much I stress that acephobia is real in the rest of my replies. However, I admit my above comment was somewhat unclear. I was trying to acknowledge that ace people might face less discrimination than other queer people on average, but that doesn't change their status as a sexual minority.
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meo wrote
Yeah, I suppose you're right. I guess my prior reply to snake was not particularly well thought out.
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