Siggy Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 "Asexuality--Not just for Amoebas: What it's like to be 'ace' in college" Via Writing from Factor X My rating: bad bad bad bad bad Link to post Share on other sites
thylacine Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 I emailed back all these answers to questions for this person & never heard back. I felt used. I spent time on this and put thought into typing out answers in essay form to be helpful for this person's "research." And I'm sure other people did, too. Now I feel this person was dishonest in doing things this way and used some of us who responded to help out. Link to post Share on other sites
NotAllHere Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 I dislike that doctor. Link to post Share on other sites
Lord Happy Toast Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 An important thing to keep in mind about hater quotes in media articles is that the people quoted may be as badly misreprested as much else in the article is. I hear that if you get misquoted, you can ask them to correct it, but a lot of times I'm going to guess that people being misquoted aren't going to object unless they're really badly misquoted. Having been misquoted in print before, I know take all expert quotes in media articles with a grain of salt. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 "but we can choose to act on asexuality." What on earth does that mean? I hope that's a misquote, because that simply makes no sense, even when taken in context. The difficulty with defining asexuality as a sexual orientation is that we don't do anything. How can you "act" on not doing anything? Edit: OMG, she quoted me! Link to post Share on other sites
kelseygurl Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 I found the article kind of annoying at parts. I mean, what did the author mean that asexuality is just a "trendy label" and not a diagnosis that will be with you forever? Thats not true. If your'e really ace, it is just another one of your characteristics. And dont tell me this was the same person who was asking for info for research a few weeks back, because thats just called twisting our words. Link to post Share on other sites
thylacine Posted February 20, 2011 Share Posted February 20, 2011 I think it is the same person... Link to post Share on other sites
kelseygurl Posted February 20, 2011 Share Posted February 20, 2011 Figures <_< Link to post Share on other sites
sinisterporpoise Posted February 20, 2011 Share Posted February 20, 2011 We need to stop paying attention to these types of articles. Reporting on the existence of Asexuals just is not news any more. And misquoting is common, unfortunately. Reporters are, after all, only human. Link to post Share on other sites
UraNepu Posted February 23, 2011 Share Posted February 23, 2011 I left a long reply to that blog, hopefully it will be approved if you want to read what I said though I can post it here EDIT:my comment is approved and published Link to post Share on other sites
Jillianimal Posted September 15, 2011 Share Posted September 15, 2011 From what little I skimmed "The literal definition of asexuality it means ‘without sexuality’, but it is not possible to be without sexuality. We are all sexual beings from the day we’re born until we die" ....What? Who says? What evidence do they have to say that so matter-o-factly? I don't even know how should be looking at that. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted September 15, 2011 Share Posted September 15, 2011 Even so, many asexual people reject the notion that asexuality is just a low rung on the sex drive totem pole. Pretty obvious that we reject it, since it's false. Helen's mother outing her daughter that way is pretty sad. Her story is rather touching and the fact she tried sex and still didn't want it proves asexuals aren't repressed people or anything. Most of the interesting stuff is out from the first page and I don't like the ending either... Bothersome. Link to post Share on other sites
saggitarius Posted September 18, 2011 Share Posted September 18, 2011 (edited) The problem is they don't accept there can be something as asexuality. Any way I do see myself as a sexual being despite being asexual. The 'a' is a prefix, just like 'hetero', 'homo' and 'bi' are also prefixes. It's not ok though to see upon asexuality as a trend. You are not asexual, bisexual or gay because it's fashionable. You just are what you are. Edited September 18, 2011 by saggitarius Link to post Share on other sites
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