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meridian_roseUgh. "If you're gay you should be aware of the risks of the gay lifestyle".
I left it at "thanks for the concern trolling but I'm not gay, although I do have many happy, healthy, gay friends and acquaintances" and unfollowing the dickwad. There'd be no use trying to explain I'm not celibate "because Jeebus" but because I'm asexual – after all you're supposed to be abstinent until marriage and then always submit to your husband without using contraception, or so Straight White Christian Male believes.
There'd be no use trying to explain how while I'm thrilled to see same sex marriage (unlike the blog writer in question) finally made legal across the USA, an important step forward for equality, I actually find marriage to be a problematic institution steeped in patriarchal values and I'd like to see it replaced with something that recognises loving commitments on a wider scale.
There'd be no use trying to explain that, while I love my nephew, just how childfree I am, how I'd rather tear my uterus out with my fingernails than be pregnant, because to men like this, women are only good for making babies.
There'd be no use trying to explain that no amount of male tears or concern trolling will turn me, or anyone else, into a Christian submissive wife and broodmare, which is their ideal notion of goodness and womanhood.
Detractors say feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians. As a single, childfree, eclectic pagan asexual who has serious concerns about many aspects of capitalism, I feel like I'm trying my hardest but I'm just not evil enough…
#notallmen #notallmenonline #notallamericans #notallchristians #butguyslikethisaremakingeveryonelookbad
I left it at "thanks for the concern trolling but I'm not gay, although I do have many happy, healthy, gay friends and acquaintances" and unfollowing the dickwad. There'd be no use trying to explain I'm not celibate "because Jeebus" but because I'm asexual – after all you're supposed to be abstinent until marriage and then always submit to your husband without using contraception, or so Straight White Christian Male believes.
There'd be no use trying to explain how while I'm thrilled to see same sex marriage (unlike the blog writer in question) finally made legal across the USA, an important step forward for equality, I actually find marriage to be a problematic institution steeped in patriarchal values and I'd like to see it replaced with something that recognises loving commitments on a wider scale.
There'd be no use trying to explain that, while I love my nephew, just how childfree I am, how I'd rather tear my uterus out with my fingernails than be pregnant, because to men like this, women are only good for making babies.
There'd be no use trying to explain that no amount of male tears or concern trolling will turn me, or anyone else, into a Christian submissive wife and broodmare, which is their ideal notion of goodness and womanhood.
Detractors say feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians. As a single, childfree, eclectic pagan asexual who has serious concerns about many aspects of capitalism, I feel like I'm trying my hardest but I'm just not evil enough…
#notallmen #notallmenonline #notallamericans #notallchristians #butguyslikethisaremakingeveryonelookbad
