I kind of wish you would just copy and paste this whole comment to the comments section there, because you put it so well!
Still too mad to form a coherent response myself, but I really want to challenge this absolute stupidity. Especially because so asexuality is so little known or talked about, that I'm sure this article will be a lot of people's first exposure to the concept. Now, isn't that a super depressing thought? :(
She sounds exactly like the (female) doctor who, in the 70s put me on the Pill and told me to go out and 'try sex'. I did. I wasn't impressed.
I'm amused by the idea that one must have sexual fantasies to masturbate - it's like saying you must be hungry to want to eat (when sometimes you just fancy a bar of chocolate).
I saw this last week and didn't feel interested in replying--making journalism out of "MAYBE UR WRONG U KNO" is so incredibly uninformed and borderline trollish that I couldn't even bother to wade in. It's really awesome, though, that the comments have gems. Because honestly, sometimes it's someone being this bigoted that makes other people wake up and realize this philosophy is fundamentally flawed. It's the same thing behind why I use the most egregious comments in my videos; if I used the comments people make when they couch offensive questions in polite or biased language, people seem to think I'm being intolerant if I don't entertain their crap, but if I show an example of someone asking the question in a blatantly hostile, offensive way, they'll listen to my explanation of why this concept is gross (and so would be any argument built on this foundation). So maybe it takes someone really bigoted and an article poorly written/argued for some people to see this philosophy for what it is.
I'd like to point out that, when I went over to the article just a few minutes ago, that the comments are now closed. Gee, I wonder why? It couldn't possibly be because there are very, very few comments saying "Well done, pseudo-science expert! Please have all the accolades in the world!" and the multiple comments saying "Step back, bitch, and do some real research."
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I kind of wish you would just copy and paste this whole comment to the comments section there, because you put it so well!
Still too mad to form a coherent response myself, but I really want to challenge this absolute stupidity. Especially because so asexuality is so little known or talked about, that I'm sure this article will be a lot of people's first exposure to the concept. Now, isn't that a super depressing thought? :(
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I'm amused by the idea that one must have sexual fantasies to masturbate - it's like saying you must be hungry to want to eat (when sometimes you just fancy a bar of chocolate).
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