AS and the LGBTQ Community

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You forgot pan/omni, Bi-curious, Zoosexual (animals) and just plain old not-living object lovers. (No, not fetishes. These people like ONLY objects...I forgot the name.)

People have changed their minds from threads.


If you are going to criticize sexual minorities, than you are going to have to put up with people speaking up against you.

Complaining about a lesbian gay organization extending its reach to other sexual minorites, and then claiming those other sexual minorities are not real, is an attack, and one without basis. And so you are going to have people of those minorities, and people who are intelligent enough to realize that you can't choose your sexuality any more than you can choose what skin color you are born, will be speaking up as to stand back and do nothing is akin to supporting the hate and myths perpetrated by those who say things like the only options are gay or straight, atheist or theist, lover or hater, etc There are gray areas between everything. Nothing is black and white- we could even point out all the variations in the color white


What did you expect to happen when you began this thread with a complaint about a group for sexual minorites supporting and recognizing sexual minorities?

Yes, the bisexual comment was very much tongue-in-cheek. I didn't think I'd have to actually spell it out.

But would it really matter if it weren't? Is an opinion any less valid becuase some people don't agree with it?

It's common as a not-joke, intent is hard to see on the internet, and many people have trouble knowing when a joke is being made as well. Also given your comments after, it seems you didn't really mean a joke after all, so it's not surprising that many people took it as a serious comment.

Yes, your opinion is less valid when it's an opinion about someone else's life and that person's experience is that you're wrong. Opinions can be right or wrong.

Successful troll is successful.

Back on topic. I'm not totally out of the closet, except with close friends and anonymous Internet people I don't have to care about. I more readily tell people that I have AS, but only if they already know me fairly well. If I tell people before they understand me, they begin to treat me like I'm just unintelligent.

Then again, part of the reason I don't talk about my sexuality is that it's really hard to explain. When I tell people I'm pansexual, they invariably ask if I have sex with pans. So I usually just say I'm bisexual, but even that is awkward to explain. I do have to tell people that I really am indifferent to gender and not just a horny person who'll have sex with anyone (quite the opposite, actually). I also understand that the difference between bisexual and pansexual is hardly significant and not understood by most, so it doesn't bother me to use the better known term instead of the more precise one.

And personally, I don't care what these organizations call themselves, as long as they include everyone who wants to be. I think it's a silly idea to use an all-inclusive initialization for a name anyway. Surely they can come up with something better. I was in a club called Out & About, but that got changed because it scared people who thought they had to be out to join or thought they would be forced to out themselves. Now it's lamely called "Pride", and I'm not a member because I don't live there anymore.

Meh. I think the acronym needs an "A".