asexual pride movement

but by definition they don't want to gtfo...

it doesn't seem like much to celebrate

oh, I dunno. Who was the writer who said on entering his dotage "Thank God that's all over with"?

Plato and Augustine expressed what amounts to that sentiment, Dr. Morbius, though they were both understandably conflicted about what kind of life they were advocating. And Augustine at least knew what he was lamenting, having slept with everything on two continents before giving it all up for good. Also cf. Stoicism.

I know two asexual people, and for both of them religion plays a key role (one is now a priest), plus general squeamishness about, er, the world at large. Neither's renounced their old ways; they'll both, I expect, be lifelong virgins.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_t6rV3U9ZEHM/SpPvH2DT5rI/AAAAAAAAbsw/fqZl18WKHfk/s1600/DavidJay.jpg

This is like Too Drunk To Fuck in reverse

Sorry.

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/DavidJay.jpg

This is like Too Drunk To Fuck in reverse

like actually BEING THERE when something exciting happens, instead of floating around the ceiling like I'm watching someone else.

A friend of mine told me this exact thing a couple of months ago, and it was the best reason for quitting pot I had ever heard. He said, "I want to actually be present when my girlfriend tells me she loves me." It was one of the sweetest things I'd ever heard.

He fucks his girlfriend, though. So that's off-topic.

LOL, I bookmarked this thread without actually ever posting in it.

Typical.

I'm sorry, but if I'm going to join a movement, it better have a better color scheme than this:

http://rlv.zcache.com/asexual_pride_bumper_sticker_1-p128004942635588411en7pq_216.jpg?max_dim=656

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbclvfkrhI1rubjl2o1_400.jpg

I am like, barely heterosexual and practically asexual. Almost no people turn me on.

misleading display name then

has there been any theoretical/psych inquiry into this yet?

Into homosexual II's display name?

The Asexuals are pretty good. I have a few of their EPs. Canadian HC never gets enough attention IMO.

The 'asexual and proud' flag looks like a supermarket own brand licorice allsort.

http://i.imgur.com/hwuiC2k.png

LOL, we really are such narcissists, aren't we?

Asexuality would not be synonymous with celibacy, which is a lack of sexual activity, but rather would indicate a complete lack of sexual urges. Since such a state would seem to be accidental, it seems a strange thing to take pride in.

uh people take pride in lots of states they have little control over, for several reasons

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Involuntary_celibacy

Just because people do weird things doesn't mean they aren't weird.

holy motherfucking shit @ christine chubbock, I had never heard of that before xp

xp yeah but those things being entirely explicable & common somewhat dampens the strangeness, is what I'm saying

Asexual pride isnt any "weirder" than gay pride. I dont understand your point Aimless.

asexuals have never been persecuted afaik

yeah I'm not trying to draw any equivalency & I have problems w ppl coöpting the terms of the persecuted but I did say there were several reasons, for instance the ppl asserting their "pride" may previously have spent years feeling like shit for being different regardless of lack of persecution from the outside world

Gay "pride" has a needful compensatory function, in that the accident of a non-standard sexual orientation has been irrationally made a point of social shame and rampant discrimination. Asexuals, to the best of my knowlege have never been the objects of similar discrimination.

Compare the only asexual epithet I can identify, virgin!, to others such as nigger, faggot, kike, greaser, fairy or bulldyke and the difference in the need for asserting "pride" in the face of discrimination becomes pretty obvious.

omg let's not get into these comparisons please

I *agree* with you that the asexual pride *movement* is dumb for all the reasons that you state, I'm just saying it's entirely obvious why they're doing it: to make themselves feel better.

I just think the "proud of what? DOES NOT COMPUTE" pose you're striking is disingenuous I guess

really don't care about any of this tho, it's a silly argument, soz

It's really up to asexuals to decide whether they feel alienated by society to the extent that they would find value in asserting "pride" in their nonstandard sexual orientation.

to what extent tho

identity politics, never as good as the first time

otoh if you want to play you should prob. come out as something not not-something

isn't that the ultimate though

oh wait no it isn't

the non-rapist pride community is begin to assert itself

nigger, faggot, kike, greaser

what, like the Fonz?

it must be difficult to develop close relationships if you don't do sex.

it seems a strange thing to take pride in

The same could be said for anything one had no hand in.

ok i've gone from by jove, aimless, you're correct to more power to them, we need more awareness about sexual variance, not less.

I regularly persecute asexuals

they all probably buy their own houses and don't carpool

dot tumblr dot com

xp zing!

what happens to a boner deferred? does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?

http://asexualnews.com/index.php/asexuality-101/676-demiromantic-asexuals

Acephobia and Asexophobia are the Asexual equivalents of Homophobia. Although neither of these words have gained any official recognition outside of the Asexual community, the words are easy enough to dissect. The terms refer to fear of Asexuals and Asexuality. Examples of this can be found, although the term itself is somewhat misleading. Even people who use the term homophobia are often refer to acts motivated by hatred.

Acephobia

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I suspect there's substantial overlap between asexuals those taking higher dose SSRIs.

You wouldn't frequent a theater that never played the third reel, either.