lmao love those people (acephobes) that are like “you gotta give me 7000+ pieces of factual evidence to claim this is a thing that happens to you (aces/aros) even though you’ve had the experience yourself”
even better is when we can’t produce many examples, because asexuality has not been studied or even considered a viable sexuality the same way other lgbt sexualities have, and they say “well guess it doesn’t happen that often then!”
bonus points for when we do produce examples, but they say it doesn’t count because “that’s just misogyny!!1!”
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there’s this study called Intergroup bias toward “Group X”: Evidence of prejudice, dehumanization, avoidance, and discrimination against asexuals by Cara C. MacInnis and Gordon Hodson
and it’s usually locked behind a paywall, but bc of the school I go to, I get it for free. so to all my friends that need like, an actual study or something, I’m putting the google drive link below :)
At the end, on page 733 we have what basically amounts to a tl;dr of Study 1:
Empirically, very little is known about asexuality relative to other sexual orientations, and no research has addressed whether asexuals are targets of bias at the group level. Addressing this latter question for the first time, our analysis suggests that antiasexual prejudice is indeed a sexual minority prejudice, correlating positively with attitudes toward homosexuals and bisexuals. Relative to the heterosexual ingroup, we find compelling evidence of antisexual minority prejudice, with this newly identified bias being particularly extreme. Strikingly, on many key measures (particularly intergroup evaluations, dehumanization, and for the most part, contact intentions), we find significantly more bias against asexuals than other sexual minorities, and discrimination intentions matching that against homosexuals. Overall, we find clear evidence of a previously unidentified and strong sexual minority prejudice: antiasexual bias.
For a tl;dr of Study 2, we go to page 738:
Asexuals were evaluated negatively relative to both heterosexuals and other sexual minorities, with order effects not explaining this pattern given the randomized order of evaluations…
Again, we provide evidence that antiasexual bias is a form of sexual minority prejudice, that those prone to prejudiceare more prone to antiasexual bias, and that asexuals are targets of dehumanization, avoidance, and discrimination intentions. Further, we demonstrate that bias toward asexuals is either equivalent to, or even more extreme, than bias toward homosexuals and bisexuals.
Although these results largely corroborate Study 1 some interesting differences emerged.First, mean evaluations of each group were noticeably more positive in Study 2. Interestingly, university students were more negative toward homosexuals, bisexuals, and asexuals than the population in general. This might come as a surprise given university students’ reported tendency toward liberalism and lower prejudices toward most other social targets (Henry, 2008). This finding suggests that university-aged students strongly value heteronormative sex, viewing sexual minorities, especially those preferring no sex at all, as deficient. Second, although asexuals were dehumanized on both dimensions (uniquely human and human nature) by the overall sample, sex differences emerged, whereby men represented asexuals as animalistic more consistently than did women (see Endnote 5). There was a strong overall tendency however, as in Study 1, for asexuals to be viewed by both men and women as more machine-like than heterosexuals, homosexuals, or bisexuals. Overall, asexuals are clear targets of bias by heterosexuals.
I didn’t mean to steal this post, but I felt that it would be nice to put this study somewhere where people could see it, read it, and use it’s results!!
*As a note, there is some cissexist language: such as the use of phrases like “men and women” or just implications of binary gender & sex identities
My favourite thing is when they are actually confirmed canonically ace but people still are like “nu uh, you’re wrong”
I honestly have no idea where I’d even start making a genuinely terrible character.
6 years later and avatar (the james cameron movie) is still completely incomprehensible to me. like you’ve got the highest grossing film in recent history and no one actually enjoyed it beyond “eh. it was okay”
Avatar is such a weird anomaly. It’s the highest grossing film EVER (not adjusting for inflation) by a huge margin and yet it left virtually no footprint on popular culture. It had its 15 minutes of fame to the tune of $2.7 billion dollars worldwide, and within a few years it’s like no one remembers it even existed. You only ever really see it mentioned these days in the context of its record-breaking box office.
And yet Disney is dedicating an entire section of Animal Kingdom to the franchise even though it technically isn’t even a franchise yet.
Why do I get the feeling when the sequel comes out it’s gonna tank at the box office (If it ever comes out, that thing has been delayed what, three times now?).
i havent shaved my legs in a really long time and while i was babysitting my skirt edged up a bit and the seven year old i was watching said “ew you should shave that hairs not supposed to be there” and i said “well if its not supposed to be there then why does it grow there?” and he was really silent for a long time and then finally said “lets watch sonic the hedgehog”
tumors grow, are they supposed to be there?
its called “evolution”, just because its there doesnt mean its useful or wanted.
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