#anti exclusionist
I….genuinely am worried if a ton of twitter users come back to tumblr because of how many of them are exclusionists. I hate the idea of going back to that being the majority here again.
Okay for real though whether this will be a Thing or just ways to slow the spread of exclusionism/protect aspec people’s mental health in general:
- Add a specific tag for people to blacklist if you respond to aphobic or exclusionist content. Having to see that content—even if you’re countering it—can be extremely stressful.
- Actually do your research before boosting criticisms of aspec terms, headcanons, etc. If someone has *never* said a supportive thing about aspec people, chances are it’s not in good faith or may be an outright lie! Remember the bullshit of “you can’t say ‘aspec’ that’s for autistic people only!!” which was flat-out made up but got spread around by anxious aro and ace people?
- I STILL see fake accounts on twitter of people pretending to be ace while yelling the most nonsensical everything-phobic tripe. Fake ace accounts created solely to stir up mockery and hate vs ace people used to be very popular on tumblr. If you see what seems like an ace person spouting something hateful, check to see how old the account is, whether there’s anything BUT that, etc.
- Block, block, block. I don’t care if they make nice art or funny shitposts. “I’ll just ignore their aphobic comments and only reblog their art—“ NO. They don’t need platforms.
- Same goes for those not-so-mysterious ~oh I don’t hate aspec people I just boost every criticism I see of them and have never said a single supportive thing~ sorts.
- Making up false rumors about aspec people/people who support aspec people was a popular tactic too. For the love of all things holy don’t boost callouts unless you do your research, especially if you see giveaways like “and they’re (gasp) INCLUSIONIST” in the call-out list.
- If you’re stressed by your dashboard boosting bad faith takes/engaging with hateful comments a lot, refine it. I had to unfollow a ton of ace blogs back in the day because they switched to ONLY countering the most bottom-of-the-barrel acephobic takes, which meant every time I came online I had to see it. Terrible for mental health.
Even if my fretting over twitter userbase doesn’t come to anything, all of this would be helpful to implement *right now* even if exclusionism and aphobia isn’t as popular here as it used to be.
All of you anti-pan bi’s and anti-bi pan’s are literally so infuriating. Stop with the revisionist bullshit. Literally just think critically for ONCE people.
Stop using the bisexual manifesto agaisnt non bi mspecs. Stop saying bisexuality is transphobic or pansexuality is transphobic. Stop saying pansexuality doesn’t exist and is just bisexuality. And for fuck’s sake recognize polysexual people?
Neither bisexuality or pansexuality are transphobic or problematic. Some of the people who use the terms may be, but the terms themselves are NEUTRAL.
There is nothing wrong with coining a more specific term to describe being attracted to all genders. Would you tell lesbians to not call themselves lesbians and that they’re just gay/homosexual? No! You wouldn’t. Just like lesbian, pansexual is a term to simply specify attraction further. So is polysexual.
Bisexuality includes trans people always has. Bisexuality isnt just about being attracted to men and women and includes nonbinary people.
Pansexual and polysexual may be used by some transphobes to describe being attracted to trans people but that is an issue with transphobes not pansexuality or polysexuality.
Bisexual is functionally an umbrella term but that doesn’t mean you can shove individual people who specifically do not identify as bisexual under it and call them bisexual.
Literally. I promise you this shit about bi pan hostility is so FAKE stop buying into it. PLEASE.
I am BEGGING you, as someone who has been involved in the lgbtq+ community for nearly half their life, STOP IT.
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