Breaking my short hiatus to report that, according to some friends of an acquaintance, I’m not asexual, I’m bisexual. Because if I were asexual, I wouldn’t have a gender.
Right… What? I don’t even actually know how those two things are supposed to be related, because even if they were mistaking sex for gender, how would that make me bisexual? What, am I automatically bisexual now just because my girlfriend is MTF? Nevermind that asexuality has nothing to do with gender, and that there actually already is a word for people with no gender identification (a few of them, in fact).
I should start keeping track of these stupid assumptions, then go back over them after a year or so and give out awards for the most idiotic.
4 Comments
December 12, 2008 at 10:08 pm
It’s amazing what people manage to come up with, isn’t it? It sounds like they’re confusing asexual people with amoebas or something.
December 13, 2008 at 9:05 am
i don’t get why people have such a hard time separating gender identity from sexual orientation.
December 20, 2008 at 3:31 pm
Dumb Girl strikes again! OH NO!
January 28, 2009 at 7:37 pm
Cool. good luck with mtf prejudice as well as ftm prejudice. People suspect me being ftm just because I act like such a guy. Bugs me, I don’t feel like anything and only often swap gender perceptions on a whim. I do like being a guy who thinks like a girl… Wuh, complex.