Posted: 17 September 2017 at 6:43pm | IP Logged | 6
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Who would know a person was asexual, Paul? Unless that person told them.
A gay couple, holding hands whilst walking in a park, might receive verbal abuse. As would, say, a transgender person. But an asexual person...well, I might have passed many whilst walking in a park. I would not have known they were asexual.
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Discrimination ≠ verbal abuse
The issues that asexuals deal with are akin to the issues that of atheists in the US, where they are, as Paul stated, looked at as "less than". The Gallup polls in recent years have consistently shown that the American public would more likely vote a Muslim President than an Atheist one, which is kinda impressive given the prevalent Islamophobia in the West. Similarly, there are studies showing that people have negative opinions of a person if all they are told is that person is asexual.
The other issues are visibility and erasure, in the same way that bisexuals have to deal with both straights and gays telling them that they are either straight people going through a phase or gay, asexuals have to deal with being told that they just haven't found the right sexual partner yet or that they just have sexual hang-up.
This does not equate to hate crimes, but this isn't equal treatment either.
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