Fair enough. I think I made a mistake with making the term aesexual the subject of my rant.
And you've every right to be bothered by an insinuation that any sexual identification or behaviour that's willing and harms nobody, is abnormal. That insinuation is part of my issue. I think I get particularly prickly on that topic when it comes to disability, as it's apparently perfectly ok to pity me or look down on me because I'm "broken".
Yeah, again, I agree labels can be important and useful, I think what bothers me is when the need for them is driven by this idea that we have to justify our existence to others. To be quite honest, I've gotten more hostility from people who share my own personal labels, who decide I don't deserve them, for whatever reason.
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Date: 2013-04-04 11:56 pm (UTC)And you've every right to be bothered by an insinuation that any sexual identification or behaviour that's willing and harms nobody, is abnormal. That insinuation is part of my issue. I think I get particularly prickly on that topic when it comes to disability, as it's apparently perfectly ok to pity me or look down on me because I'm "broken".
Yeah, again, I agree labels can be important and useful, I think what bothers me is when the need for them is driven by this idea that we have to justify our existence to others. To be quite honest, I've gotten more hostility from people who share my own personal labels, who decide I don't deserve them, for whatever reason.
I have a weird relationship with labels.