you see this shit, this isn’t cool or funny. This is freaky and above all disgusting. Because of this little anon. I’m going to disable anon on this blog entirely. Now sit in the corner and think about what you’ve done.
Mint, you’d probably need a microscope to see it anyways. Not worth the time nor effort.
ask-ghostly-mist asked: Puffy! I am in a healthy, loving relationship and thus, cannot understand the insulting 'horoscope' description of that! Pls explain to my stupid butt! I accept your love life as yours but I just simply don't understand aromantic/asexual people.
The problem with the description is how generalizing it was written. Clearly from the viewpoint of someone not understanding the spectrum nor admitting to it and doing the proper research for it.
It is the tone of the wording. Sounding to be trying too hard to not sound offending. Describing what they consider an empty life while trying to sound optimistic about it. “Keep being free!”
Probably a germophobe, hate cuddling, focusing on career in lack of a lovelife… Considering the romantic love from others as fake or desperate. All those things and more are pretty insulting assumptions to put the whole of that spectrum under.
Especially with how much they used the word “probably” through it all.
Aro means you don’t feel the romantic attraction to others. Ace means you don’t feel sexual attraction to others. But both comes in many variety, as different as people can be from person to person.
Plenty of Aro Aces out there who likes to cuddle and snuggle. Who likes physical contact. Who UNDERSTAND the romantic attraction they receive from others, even if they can’t return it. Aro Ace doesn’t mean a complete disconnection from being a human being. There are such things as platonic relationships, platonic love.
It brings up the assumption that if you are Aro or Ace or both you are “free” from the whole relationship race, that you suddenly have so much more time at hand or have a completely different relationship to everyone around you.
It’s insulting the way they put it up, based on assumptions and then generalizing it like that. Sounding as empty as when a horoscope tries to dictate what kind of person you are and how you spend your time and life, just because you were born under this supposed start. It means nothing.
Problem here is… people read it and might take it granted for the ‘proper’ description of it. Because people do that when reading stuff on the Internet. It is misinformation about a group still trying to make the world understand what they are about. The last thing we need is misinformation and generalization. Because to help people realize this part of themselves they NEED the right information, to better understand. Both inside the spectrum as well as outside.
… okay, sorry, went on a tantrum there and made a wall of text. Ops.
tl;dr - That you don’t understand the spectrum of Aro Ace is WHY this bad description is a bad thing. It spreads misinformation based on bad assumptions and generalization.
