Starting this month you can throw bricks at chuds
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That seems a lot more than slightly to me tbh. Happy pride month :3
i won't speak for roux but not being an active target of oppression gives me a lot of, not imposter syndrome exactly, but a feeling that these counter cultural institutions that have been built aren't really for me because i don't need or benefit from them.
i deleted a reply to roux essentially saying the same as you.
Maybe part of being ace is alienation... from allo culture, from gay culture, just... in general. A constant sense of trying to be something you're not.
i wonder often if our main struggle is with feelings of separateness". Not really a targeted 'outgroup', but not feeling part of any in-group. A curiosity if anything, like TNGs DATA. accepted, but not "part of the team"
it is a strange sensation, always separate, not really a part of any community. feeling fake, again like an android, peering out at allos with curious and sometimes envious eyes, always fighting a nebulous, deeply held fear that it's not just me, it's not damage, it's real.
i don't belong; because i can't understand, no one really wants me around.
dunno. probably just holdover feelings from all those years not knowing. years trying to fit with allos i couldn't understand, and the memories of the hurt eyes and name-calling i can't forget, people who took it personal when i didn't give them what i was supposed to.
AAAnyway, in the rare moments i see another gracie, i am heartened to see i share something, even if it's just the same feelings of confusion and alienation.
TLDR Im "happy" to see y'all around fightin thru the same feelings i do.
Happy Pride y'all!
Yes! You! Ace comrades too!
I feel the same way about being trans. I feel like an outsider, I knew since I was a child that I wasn't like the boys I knew. I also didn't know why and pushed that feeling deep deep down inside, I always felt awkward around my female peers in high school because I was a hormonal horny teenager that knew only one thing, I liked girls. I liked girls so much I wished I was born a different way (Yeah I know I would have known sooner if it weren't for growing up in the extremely transphobic 80s/90s). So now finally trying to accept who I am, I have also gotten really good at performing as a man, so good that I am afraid of doing anything else. I know it isn't who I am but I also know that to others in the community I just look like a "pretty" cis guy.
I feel the same way as an nb person who will be treated and regarded as a he/him in most public situations, I just no longer feel like itβs my fault when I get rejected from spaces for being insufficently masculine or not displaying that masculinity appropriately, fuck you I wasnβt trying to meet your standards anyway.
I see myself as part of the community but here to be an ally and provide support while trying not to take up space.
JK Rowling, may she be salted from the earth and her castle crumble before it's time, had some shit to say about Ace people. The people that seek to oppress don't draw the same distinction we do - you're either in the hegemonic cisheteronormative patriarchal chain of being or you must be corrected/destroyed.
yeah that's some real cutting edge bigotry.
I was being silly lol. Happy pride!