• zeroaesthetic
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    4 years ago

    I personally don’t think there’s a difference between bisexuality and pansexuality, but asexual is a thing.

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      4 years ago

      I agree with you, however i don’t know of any structural oppression against asexuality? I mean there’s strong incentives to have children and there may be interpersonal judgement around the topic but i don’t believe anyone has “mandatory sexual relationships” on their political agenda. Am i missing something?

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        4 years ago

        No, there’s no structural oppression against asexuality, but there’s also no structural oppression against heterosexuality, and the latter is explicitly mentioned as a sexual orientation in the bill.

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          4 years ago

          Don’t you believe the addition of hetero and bi sexuality explicitly in the list was calculated to defuse progressive/reactionary opposition in advance? If heterosexuality wasn’t on there people on the right would have claimed “it’s a secret lgbt plot to criminalize heterosexuality”, or at least i believe so

          but i see your point thanks, not trying to nitpick :)

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            4 years ago

            Uh, no, I think they were included in the list because it would be incorrect to say that sexual orientation just means homosexuality. (And why do you lump hetero- and bisexuality together? Bisexuality is still a form of queerness.)

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            4 years ago

            Heterosexuality is listed because leaving it out would open the bill up to equal protections challenges.