ASEXUAL REPRESENTATION MATTERS

ijustreallylovedaredevil:

• because I didn’t know what asexuality was until I saw it online
• because for the longest time, I thought I was just broken
• because finding out there was a label for people like me, that there were others like me, was one of the best days of my life
• because people still react like it’s impossible, or will go away once I meet the right person
• because no one knows what it is and it shouldn’t be my responsibility to educate every single one of them
• because I am told that I will get over it
• because asexuality is used as a trope for people who are cold and heartless and don’t know how to love
• because we are compared to robots or plants
• because people think we have been assaulted or traumatized in some way, and that this is just a reaction, and not just who we are
• because there is no mainstream media character I can point to that has been identified as asexual
• because when even thinking about characters who may be asexual, the only ones that come to mind are written that way as jokes or to make a point about their personality
• because people still think the a is for allies
• because there are kids growing up right now that feel just like I did and they won’t learn about asexuality until long after they think they’re broken too
• because everyone deserves to see themselves in their heroes
• because we exist and we are here and you can’t keep ignoring us