I’m trying to dodge the asexuality discourse that seems to be starting elsewhere by vagueblogging about it here and hoping the links dont get linked too strongly into it. But there are two things that really really bug me about it.
1. “Asexuals aren’t oppressed”
what the fuck happened to intersectionality and the idea that you can’t simply discern people’s position in the hierarchies of bullshit and bias just by “summing” their individual positions and the idea that the hierarchies modulate each other so strongly that they sometimes even invert and all that complexity which the very word itself originally was about? oh yeah, people who don’t rtfm but instead rush into action too eagerly
but anyway, evidence; from now on, anyone claiming that asexuals aren’t marginalized in at least some ways relative to otherwise comparable normative heterosexuals needs to have a damn good explanation for this data
2. “If you aren’t marginalized, you are an oppressor who benefits from oppression”
what the fuck there are very few people who benefit from this bullshit system absolutely and not just positionally; it’s like the idea that I as a western person benefit from closed borders, well fuck no, my position in the hierarchy of “where one was born at” is better than the position of most people, but if there was no hierarchy even I would be better off
the idea that the world can easily be turned into a zero-sum game of “us” vs. “them” is certainly tribally appealing and easy but it’s not true, it’s not kind, and it’s not necessary. I’m usually averse to arguments like “you aren’t helping your cause” because oftentimes people actually just need to vent and shit and aren’t 100% focused on doing the Optimally Effective Social Justice Advocacy™, but goddamnit this is my cause and people who do this thing are hurting me and my cause and my equality and my people by giving pro-marginalization people free ammunition
like, which one do you think would actually be more likely to make people interested in solving the problem? “There are no win-win gains, you must lose a fuckload of a huge lot” vs. “you know, even you’d win if we did this thing, even though we aren’t really focused on you but instead on the people who are worse off”?
it’s like fucking primitivists; if you force me to choose between ecocidal extermination instincts or social darwinism, yeah I’m on team grey. if you force me to choose between transhumanism and a ridiculous ~sustainability~ “””utopia””” where tech is rationed and people die happily at 80 ~for the environment~ and no progress can ever happen because ~infinite growth is impossible on a limited planet~, you shouldn’t be too surprised if I’d rather try techno-utopianism instead
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