So what? Who cares? Why are you making a big deal of this? Why do you have to show it off and tell everyone? Don't shove it down our throats! Why does anyone need to label themselves? ....................................................... Asexuals aren't persecuted or oppressed or discriminated against! Talk to me when you're beat up or killed for it. There are no laws against it. What rights are they fighting for? ................................................ General disbelief/hate/mocking ............................................. "lol tldr (Didn't read, but I'm making a joke anyway)" ............................................. Too many letters in LGBTQIA++ ................................... Too many labels!/Not another community!/Identity politics! .............................. "Just don't say anything and it'll solve your problems. No one will bring it up unless you bring it up out of the blue. (Not true, I had a Canadian border agent ask why I was single.) Just go back in the closet. You won't get raped if you don't tell people you're asexual. " ............................. "I don't understand this, so clearly there isn't a need for it. / I've never heard of this, so it must not exist. / I've never heard of your problems, so you must not have any problems." .......................... "Pure and righteous/gift from God (Some think it's wonderful, and praise this, others use it as an attack, and some use it as an attack on religion (priests should be asexual!))" ......................... Slippery slope to bestiality and gay boy scouts/Now what?/They want to change us all./Remember the mythical olden days?/DOWNFALL OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION! ......................... Why do they need a community? You're not a group. It's just not having sex. Big deal. ......................... "I wrote the dictionary. ""True"" or ""Pure"" Asexuality is no sex drive/sex feelings/romance/dating/etc. You're using the wrong word. Try solosexual or nonsexual or analloerotic or anhedonia or some other term that no one uses to mean this thing that has a commonly understood definition, just because I refuse to accept it for no reason. ""Homonym"" ""Polysemous""" ....................... It's a psychological problem/Why not go to therapy? ..................... Masturbation/Arousal/Having Sex are all SEXUAL! You can't be asexual if you experience one of them! .................... Get Your Hormones Checked/Go See A Doctor ................... This doesn't belong here. ................... "Completely irrelevant to the discussion at hand, but I LOVE sex!" .................. "I wish I could be like that, it would solve my dating problems/make life easier/wouldn't get distracted. It's a blessing." .................. Special treatment/special rights .................. Imagine what they can do with all that free time/extra money! They'd cure cancer! ................. "lol my (ex-)wife/It's called ""Being Married""" ................. But... Science! / Humans can't be asexual because they're not single celled organisms or plants. ............... "I don't understand this. Rather than attempting to enlighten myself, I am going to spend several minutes crafting an elaborate message about how I don't understand this. Even though I'm posting on an article that is quite informative and would probably help me to understand if I just bothered to read it." ............... Troll in the dungeon! ............... Why are you so upset about my hurtful comment? You're too sensitive. You're just angry. ............... As long as you're happy. To each their own. Live and let live. Whatever floats your boat. .............. It's a barrier to keep people away./Bad relationship in the past./It's a defense mechanism against getting close to someone./It's based on fear. .............. "You can be in a community, just not mine." .............. "Don't get me wrong, my hurtful comment is okay because I apologized for it or said it was an opinion or said I could be wrong ahead of time, but that's just me." ............. It's just an invention of doctors/big pharma/etc. It's another oppressed minority invented by liberals./It's a way for conservatives to keep people down. It's another way to divide us instead of focusing on what we have in common. I blame feminists. I blame Californians. I blame sex ed causing people to experiment with their same-sex friends. ............. It's sad that you're like that/lonely/without sex. What a shame. I pity you. ............. Result of evolution/overpopulation/more advanced state/chemtrails/PCBs ............. It's a choice ............ "It's not an orientation. It's a lack of one. That's like calling ""atheist"" a religion. That's like saying ""bald"" is a hair color"". That's like a compass pointing nowhere." ............ Politically Correct ............ """Condition""/""Problem""/""Disorder""" ........... "I'm just going to ignore what you said and repeat what I originally said, because I don't see how your personal experience is relevant." ........... It's impossible for someone who isn't asexual to understand asexuality ........... Obsessive focus on sexuality ........... tldr answer my question anyway ........... Asexuality == celibacy .......... Asexuality == gender .......... But... Cute! .......... Do they masturbate? .......... Fundamentalists and Republicans and Conservatives are gonna HATE them! .......... Straights can call themselves queer if asexuals do! / Will we have to accept everyone based on their sexual practices? / Diluting the cause! .......... "The LGBT movement is all about sex, so they don't belong." .......... They just don't want to have sex. What's so special about that? .......... They just want attention/want to be victims for attention. ................ Weirdo/Freak/Abnormal/General insult. .......... What do they masturbate to?/What do they think about? Do they fantasize? .......... "Why can't we all just be ""human""?" .......... Can they get aroused? Can they have orgasms? Does sex not feel good? Do they feel anything? ......... Counterpoint to fixation on sex. ......... "I'm not a doctor/an expert, but I play one on the Internet." ......... No one has a problem with it. ......... Why define yourself by your sex life? ......... You're so self-centered/selfish. ......... Goes against biology/evolution/perpetuation of the species/procreation is the meaning of life ........ I'm confused by this and feel the need to say so publically. ........ "There's something wrong with them, there's something very very wrong with them./They're broken/defective" ........ TMI/It's too personal to talk about./Can't you keep it to yourselves? ........ "Yeah, I feel asexual once in a while, too." ........ Aren't there more important things to talk about? ....... But they masturbate/have sex/like orgasms! ....... "How are you any different, really? We're all ""different""!" ....... "I don't understand this, so I'll mock it by claiming that I'm going to support ""rights"" or start a community for something ridiculous. (Bell peppers) or say that I had something bad happen to me because of something silly (Kicked out for not eating pork)." ....... I will not concede the point you just refuted because what I was really trying to say was something completely different than what I was arguing./moving the goalposts. ....... "I wouldn't care about your sexual orientation, so clearly no one else will, either." ....... It's unnatural/goes against the laws of nature/It's not human/inhuman ....... They shouldn't go around leading people on. ....... They're all ugly. ....... They're just lying. ....... This would solve the world's problems. ....... tldr ....... Will they want to have a parade? ....... """Corrective"" rape never happens/doesn't exist" ...... """Frigid""" ...... According to what I just learned five minutes ago... ...... Asexuality == low sex drive ...... Can they fall in love? ...... Goats are beneath Oxen. (And other crackpots) ...... Have fun in hell!/It's a sin/Goes against the Bible. ...... How can you be a group of people who DON'T do something? ...... "I didn't read the article, but I don't have to because I know everything." ...... It's just like friends without the sex. Marriage == Sex! Relationship == sex! ...... "This has nothing to do with me or my life, so it's not necessary for anyone." ...... We are ALL sexual beings. ...... Why do we need to have so many words to describe things? ...... You're just repressed. You have issues that made you that way. ...... You're just upset because you can't get laid. ...... """scare"" ""quotes""" ..... Arousal requires attraction! Sex requires attraction! Romance requires attraction! ..... Asexualism (Special form of Troll in the Dungeon) ..... Do we need another word for this? ..... GET OFF MY LAWN! ..... "I don't have anything against you, but... / Don't mean to judge, but..." ..... "I just found out about this, but you're all wrong because it doesn't fit nicely into my preconcieved notions/limited narrow worldview." ..... "I read something once, so I'm an expert." ..... I'm tired of hearing about all these people. This is boring. ..... Look at how divisive this is! Look at ALL of the gays attacking them! ..... Show me the science! ..... So what is MY label if you're so special? ..... They're trying to make us lose our identity! ..... Too complicated/Can't agree on a definition ..... ur just straight ..... Why is this a thing? ..... You NEED to have sex! / Sex is a basic requirement for life. ..... "You'll find the right person, someday." ..... """Ace"" is just silly." .... Asexuality == being single. .... Good that they're removing themselves from the gene pool. .... "I agree with everything you're saying, but YOU'RE DEAD WRONG!" .... I have FACTS that I just made up IN ALL CAPS to support my nonsense. .... "I support you, but not the way you act." .... I'm going to make a comment about sleeping with animals because somehow I think it's relevant. .... Maybe it's the medication you're on. .... Special Snowflake (Special form of Troll in the Dungeon) .... They just haven't figured out what they like yet. .... They're missing out. .... They're the only group that it's okay to make fun of. This is all just silly nonsense. .... What about straight pride? .... Your first person experience does not disprove my wild-ass conjecture. .... You're just overreacting! .... Cure for overpopulation ... Do they want to kiss/get married/do (insert random romantic relationship benchmark here) ... Don't limit yourself! ... Everyone and everything is always horny! ... "I didn't bother reading this, but that's not going to stop me from talking and telling you that I didn't bother reading this and having an opinion about what was presented/I didn't read the article, but I'm going to attack it anyway./I don't know what I'm talking about, but I'm talking about it anyway." ......... I wasn't talking about YOU ... I'm angry at the world because I got involved with someone who won't put out. ... "I'm celibate/in a dry spell, does that mean I'm ace, too?" ... "It hasn't been researched enough, so it can't be real." ... It's another word for not getting any. ... It's my GOD-GIVEN RED-BLOODED AMERICAN RIGHT to be an asshole to you! ... More for me! ... Really? Never ever? Never EVER EVER? ... They just masturbate too much to care about sex. ... They just want to be trendy. It's the new gay. It's the new fad. ... They think they're better than we are! ... They're confused. ... They're just like that because no one will sleep with them. ... They're just robots ... ur just gay ... What a waste! ... "What about (insert nosy question about body function here)? Wet dreams, etc." ... What do they want to marry? Animals? Plants? Themselves? Etc? ... You just need to get laid. ... """lifestyle""" .. """Try it and you may, I say!""" .. #asexual is trending/Go back to Tumblr .. Asexuality == Lack of physical sex. .. DEVIATED PREVERTS .. Is this a joke? .. It's a cult! .. No STDs! .. That would be awful/glad I'm not like that .. They have high standards .. "What about ""Bsexuality""?" .. What do they have sex with? Animals? Plants? Themselves? Etc? .. "Yeah, I'm asexual too, because no one will sleep with me tonight!" .. "You just can't be asexual, because I said you can't be." .. You'd change your mind if you had sex. .. """Ace"" is a claim of superiority." . Asexuals can't figure out emotional cues like other people. . Blame Your Parents . Get thee to a nunnery! . "I'm going to dismiss everything you say because ""LGBT"" does not have an A in it, and since that's etched permanently in stone it can't ever ever be changed." . "Isn't demisexuality just ""A normal relationship""?" . It's not official. . The movement is being hijacked by the gays! . They were all abused. . They're all just introverts . They're just immature. . This looks like a great place for misogynists to land! . You'll die alone! . You're just afraid to live! . You're just insecure or oversensitive .