Here are a few I’ve heard:
- “Identifying as demisexual is just a form of slut-shaming”
- “‘Demisexuality’ is just the human norm, most people don’t fuck someone they just met”
- “Asexual claims of discrimination are an insult to the Black Americans who struggled in the Civil Rights Movement”
- “Anyone who identifies as asexual is either an incel in denial or has a medical problem that needs to be cured”
There should be no gay bars because they are a “special right”, and straight people don’t “need everyone in the room to have the same sexuality as themselves”.
The thing that made this take even more ridiculous is that I heard it from a westerner living in Japan. She talked about how she didn’t feel the need to take her Japanese boyfriend to “exclusively heterosexual spaces”. The fact that non-heterosexuals are under pressure to keep their sexuality private and thus find it much harder to find partners at work or outside queer spaces had never crossed her mind.
I have my own criticisms about gay bars (especially in Japan) and how they can be incredibly insular and often have very toxic gender norms, but her take was so dumb.