Crossposted from Twitter

I'm seeing a lot of things on Twitter lately that have been annoying and sometimes hurtful. Some of the Rise of Skywalker discourse has been "the real tragedy is that the characters remain virgins". There's a lot of smut, smut, all the smut fics, who needs anything but smut, that's how you see it's a REAL romance/relationship.
The announcement that the new Cinderella will put less focus on her finding a prince has led to "women have be shown to be strong AND in sexual relationships" where you have to be both otherwise it's "sexless" and bad.
And gems like the above, where you're NOTHING without "needing" a sexual partner and biological kids. (It was probably mostly bad phrasing by the OP but that doesn't take away the hurt)

There was an episode of "Legends of Tomorrow" where a guest character attempts seduction of a regular character with the line "life is nothing without love" and it was hurtful at the time. I rewatched it last week and I decided that love can mean love for your wider family, for your friends, your pets, your community, your country, for authors you'll never meet and the books they wrote, and so much more. Love is about connection and caring about something/someone.

I'm tired of seeing virgin used an insult or treated as something undesirable/tragic. I'm tired of seeing love only acknowledged when it refers to a sexual partner.