March 2012
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(a)sexual exploration
I didn’t get crushes on boys when my friends did. I didn’t understand the appeal of playing spin-the-bottle at lunchtime. Boys were still yucky. I didn’t understand, either, why my friends read Seventeen, because we were twelve.
Desperate to fit in, I got a boyfriend. He wasn’t a nice person. He told me that he had read that the average age of onset of sexual activity was...
One week till I get to go back to therapy.
One week.
I can do this.
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February 2012
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Blargh
I am writing an entry for Carnival of Aces and I can’t figure out how to wrap it up.
Damn it, college, you did not teach me how to write conclusions.
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I have a Wordpress
I’m going to be cross-posting serious-ish stuff here. I hope to focus on skeptical and atheist issues as well as asexuality.
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The Great Fandom War
juggadouche:
shubbabang:
http://dplover25.deviantart.com/art/The-Great-Fandom-War-287669054
I don’t know what I’m doing with my life guys
Welcome to Homestuck y’all
“Normal People HQ”
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I want to know what everyone's first fandom was.
vastderp:
owlbutts:
lebandgeek:
Heterosexual weenies: I want to know what everyone’s first fandom was.
pockytardis:
dry-moist-towelette:
yiffmyass:
tannanana:
shiraae:
stripesandteeth:
It was a mix for me..? If you mean by fandom then you mean coming together with other people and stuff right? I believe my first legit fandom was Yu-gi-oh! Mostly because that was…
Avatar...
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Frustration and skepticism
I posted here a few weeks ago about how I think Freethought Blogs, and skeptical/atheist spaces in general, needed asexual voices, to combat the lack of, well, skepticism, and general lack of self-awareness, with which they throw around sex-normative, asexual-excluding language.
That post was bogged down with personal insults in what I’m pretty sure was record time. (Seriously, I am...
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Notice on my package of tilapia "warning: contains...
Thanks, I thought tilapia were birds??
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I went to my first cosplay meet!
Oh my goodness, Hometsuck people are so nice!
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ok shut the fuck up about making fun of transabled...
zooms-on-booms:
eyesclosedmindsopen:
swanblood:
mosshotel:
http://scienceblogs.com/neurophilosophy/2009/03/voluntary_amputation_extra_phantom_limbs.php
Just fucking read that. It’s SCIENTIFIC.
Also, not JUST otherkin have extra limbs.
(I am not transabled but if you are transabled and you read this I just want to hug you very much. )
This.
BIID is a real, ~scientifically studied~...
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"sex is like a donut"
youknowyoureasexual:
“For asexuals, sex is like… a donut. When we see a donut, we do not have the urge to eat the donut. This does not necessarily mean we hate the donut, or think the donut is disgusting— many of us even like donuts. But we never have any urge to walk over there and eat it. Demisexuals will have the urge to eat the donut only if it their absolute favorite kind of donut in the...
If you talk about "transfat" and "cisfat" ness as...
eyesclosedmindsopen:
[cut for brevity]
Moving this over to the multi blog since it’s more relevant there.
I’m not attacking. I just really don’t understand it, and as a disabled person back home it struck me as really quite odd outside of a mental health context, I guess? Maybe it can be related back to multiplicity. I’m not sure. I’m trying to look at this from a perspective of how I...
If you talk about "transfat" and "cisfat" ness as...
mentalscribble:
friendlysoviet:
eyesclosedmindsopen:
southcarolinaboy:
whatfreshhellisthis:
Fuck you
Fuck you
Fuck you
FUCK YOU
People have started doing this now, have they?
What the heck do those words even mean?
Well you see, transfat is part of a new wave of trans* people, including transabled and transethnic.
Transabled people wish to have a certain disability when they...
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Why I'm okay with "born this way"
There has been some pushback lately against the concept of “born this way” as a rallying cry for queer people. I’d like to go on the record as a queer person who finds the idea of “born this way” very useful, even empowering. There are a couple of reasons for this; one is highly personal, and the other has to do with the way science is understood and discussed in the...
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and we shall eat the sun: the radical asexual →
otomemachine:
neutered:
sidneyia:
neutered:
swanblood:
sidneyia:
I think I might be a radical asexual. I’ve never self-identified as a radical anything, with the exception of possibly radically prochoice - but even then, I feel like “radical” is acknowledging one’s beliefs fall far outside the norm, and I think more people…
nnn but “sex positive” doesn’t mean “i like and want to...
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I've just seen a map of the United States.
sub-brotality:
voldemortoutbitches:
HOW
WHY ARE YOUR COUNTIES/STATES SO NEATLY DIVIDED!?
IN ENGLAND IT IS WIGGLY LINE WORLD:
AND THEN YOU LOOK AT AMERICA AND IT’S LIKE
BAM
BOXES
WHY
HOW
WHEN!?!?!?!??
um…
EXCUSE ME.
They’re called LIBERTY SQUARES
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FACT: If somebody does not go to Pride annually...
stfuhatemongers:
I don’t go but I have a really good reason. Honest. And they all get that.. I hope.
Um… wow.
FACT: If somebody tries to coerce you into going to a sex-normative, anti-asexual, prude-shaming event that you don’t way to go to, using their friendship with you as leverage, then they probably weren’t your friend in the first place.
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Great analogy my Pastor had on Evolution today:
theoppressedlittlefetus:
thepetroguy:
paige-michael:
“Have any of you played with a firecracker? I’m assuming yes, or you know the function of it. When you shoot off a firecracker it explodes into nothing. I have never seen a firecracker explode and a can of tuna appear. That is what evolution says, that the Earth was made from an explosion.” - Pastor Ed Taylor
I think your Pastor should...
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Vlad Drăculea: One of the scariest things about... →
asexualeducation:
I’ve always wanted a younger sibling. When I was a teen, my cousins lived with us. Eventually they’d gone home and I was a lonely only child again. Unfortunately when I was around 20-21 my maternal instincts decided to make that feeling worse. The fact that we’d moved to a…
Ugh, I’m sorry this happened to you.
I was at a party recently and a guest asked me about...
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I can’t tell if the fact that people are reblogging one of my posts with all my original words removed and only other (sexual) people’s commentary visible counts as asexual erasure or not.
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Talking in Tongues: People that deserve to be... →
permutationofninjas:
trapped-idiot:
permutationofninjas:
trapped-idiot:
-Men’s Rights Advocates. Start with The Amazing Atheist, high sausage yield will stabilise the population of endangered bears whose natural prey is too threatened to sustain them.
-Author of…
Will, I think you might be mistaken about what “men’s rights activists” actually refers to....
Controversial opinions on mental illness
plures:
conjuringseed:
hyperphagia:
‘Calling disapproved thinking, emotions, or behavior a mental illness might be excusable if mental illness was a useful myth, but it isn’t. Rather than helping us deal with troubled or troublesome persons, the myth of mental illness distracts us from the real problems that need to be faced. Rather than being caused by a “chemical imbalance” or other...
anchiton oladabas: the radical asexual →
spacialrebel:
sidneyia:
I think I might be a radical asexual. I’ve never self-identified as a radical anything, with the exception of possibly radically prochoice - but even then, I feel like “radical” is acknowledging one’s beliefs fall far outside the norm, and I think more people probably agree with the so-called…
I’d just like to say that you appear to be very ill-conceived of what the...
and we shall eat the sun: the radical asexual →
neutered:
[snip]
the only time i’ve ever seen it used to shame people is when those people are explicitly or implicitly making moral judgments about people who DO have sex though. things like saying “i have self respect thank you” when talking about nude photos, which is problematic behavior. i have heard of people who use the concept of sex positivity to, say, shame people into having sex...
and we shall eat the sun: the radical asexual →
neutered:
swanblood:
sidneyia:
I think I might be a radical asexual. I’ve never self-identified as a radical anything, with the exception of possibly radically prochoice - but even then, I feel like “radical” is acknowledging one’s beliefs fall far outside the norm, and I think more people…
nnn but “sex positive” doesn’t mean “i like and want to have sex”
the sex positive movement is...
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the radical asexual
I think I might be a radical asexual. I’ve never self-identified as a radical anything, with the exception of possibly radically prochoice - but even then, I feel like “radical” is acknowledging one’s beliefs fall far outside the norm, and I think more people probably agree with the so-called radical prochoice stance than are consciously aware of it.
“Radical...
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Does anyone besides me have issues with sex-normative attitudes in prochoice spaces?
Don’t get me wrong, I read all the prochoice tumblrs, all of them, and I love 99% of what’s posted, and I love seeing smackdowns of anti’s. But there’s also a lot of “everybody fucks” type comments, and a lot of them are really flippant and don’t seem very self-aware.
...
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Homestuck speculation: red and green
UU’s Signless cufflinks got me thinking: what if, in the Alpha universe, Signless-worship is the mainstream religion, rather than heresy?
And what if red is part of the normal hemospectrum in the Alpha universe, and lime green is the mutation?
It seems very likely at this point that UU will have lime blood. Her symbol* is the staff of Asclepius (the roman name for Ophiuchus) and...
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“Some people think that you can’t let same-sex couples get married without...”
– California attorney and semi-professional cynic Bill Smith on today’s Ninth Circuit decision regarding Proposition 8. Read the full decision here. (via cognitivedissonance)
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mentalscribble:
eyesclosedmindsopen:
shiyiya:
Introducing Ace Hate Bingo!
blackdogrunning:
shiyiya:
[snip]
I’m loving the newest post they’re put up - particularly this gem :
While some asexuals are indeed LGBTQ as well, upon critical examination the asexual political lens is very much heterocentric (and also malecentric), and I have Never Once encountered an internet asexual who...