Neutral mention in CNN article

[nightengalesknd]

CNN had an article today called Youth: Straight, LGBT or 'other'?It summarized a recent Gallop poll about sexuality

Comments

[swankivy]

That's good. I'm hoping there will be more of this in the future, so that the media attention to all types of gender and sexual diversity remember us, doesn't mention us just to be good "allies" in a throwaway sentence before continuing to function like sexual attraction is universal, and doesn't display it like an "omg this exists!" circus exhibit with "experts" weighing in as if an opposite opinion invalidating our identity is necessary.

[nightengalesknd]

Yeah exactly. There's your stuff, which is always wonderful but it's directly from our community, and then there's the 101 circus exhibit stuff and then there's erasure. What there isn't is simple, neutral acknowledgement.

[pico_the_great]

Wow. I kind of love this article, because it is, in fact, a neutral, descriptive, unbiased look at the matter. No pushing people in direction or another, just a flatly positive report.

I'd add that one more line is concerned with asexuality - the line after the one you quoted. "While we're creating space for a variety of sexual identities, we also need to create space for non-sexual identities," said college sex educator Emily Nagoski. And I really enjoy that, too, because that can encompass both nontraditional alternate sexualities as well as gender identities. (Can I add my heartmarks about how much they discuss gender as well? Because yes.)

So basically: excellent article, thank you for sharing, and we need more of this :D

[nightengalesknd]

Yeah that was a pretty neat bit too!

[cherriesarered]

Yeah, I like that it feels casual and unconcerned. Just "some people are asexual and this is what it means", rather than "this new orientation is so crazy!" or something to that effect.

[swankivy]

And you know what's interesting about that is that if you look at the comments, they're full of some pretty horrible homophobic stuff but nobody seems to have zeroed in on asexuality and said "Wait, why did they include that? THAT'S STUPID. Everyone wants sex!" I think that's partially because of the non-issue it was made out to be. The homophobia in the comments just overflowing everywhere is pretty nasty, though.

[nightengalesknd]

I admit I've learned not to look in the comments of any CNN article that mentions GLBT anything.

[nightengalesknd]

It's definitely a sign of the start of acceptance!