If you want a pretty good live example of the kind of homophobic rhetoric that the split attraction model helps to propogate, look at the current Sesame Street fiasco.
Bert & Ernie are confirmed gay by their creator. Sesame Street races to put out a statement on how “puppets aren’t sexual at all actually uwu”… even though the original confirmation said absolutely nothing about sex, because these are Sesame Street characters. “These two men are in a relationship” immediately became “these dudes fuck each other”, and by extension, something you need to prevent your children from seeing.
When you insist on using a system that mandates immediate disclosure and clarification of our sex lives as separate from our romantic interests, this is the kind of mindset that’s being enabled – the age-old homophobic assumption that we’re kinks first and humans last.
> that the split attraction model helps to propogate
> the age-old homophobic assumption that we’re kinks first and humans last
Would you all PLEASE pay attention to what you’re responding to because I explicitly do not say that the Sesame Street thing was caused by ace discourse (wtf), I am talking about how:
> a system that mandates immediate disclosure and clarification of our sex lives as separate from our romantic interests
Ie. “biromantic” meaning LOVE where “bisexual” apparently doesn’t necessarily mean that?
Is just a new “progressive” way of enforcing stereotypes that have existed for a much, much longer time.
You can talk about your personal experiences with attraction without justifying language that inherently sexualizes lgbt people, because it contributes to a problem larger than your pet discourse.
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