[-] AceProgrammer42 1 points 6 months ago

Raven really is a good force in the Netherlands I feel like. I don't regularly watch TV, but a while ago I was at my parents and there we had a TV show on which primarily featured Raven inviting guests on their farm. My parents, who normally are mostly okay with trans stuff but also quite unaware and a bit ignorant, seemed to like Raven as a person and therefore also seemed quite open to their identity and opinions. The show also contained some candid discussions about the subject, including the impact of the way people still fail to fully accept people who don't fit the binary. I think Raven actually contributes a lot to Intersex and non-binary awareness.

[-] AceProgrammer42 3 points 1 year ago

As a queer guy wearing nail polish, I have a different (though not negative) experience. In my experience people do notice it, but often either give compliments or make slightly bigoted remarks that can be pretty easily laughed away or countered. I haven't come across anyone who was a total asshole about it up until now though, even when I pivoted to colours that weren't black.

It's also not that I'm a necessarily queer-positive environment or that people support it because of my queerness. Both family (apart from parents and siblings ) and colleagues are generally not aware that I'm LGBT+, and they're also usually leaning slightly "anti-woke". But at the same time they also seem to abide by the Dutch "live and let live" mentality. It seems like they just think "oh cool, he's a guy who painted his nails", which is definitely better than I was expecting of some of them.

[-] AceProgrammer42 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah that sucks. I've realized that I'm overall quite privileged with my surroundings. I had expected some people to be annoying about it, but it all went smoothly. Sadly that's not the normal way that coming out as ace or aro will go, mos people will be met with some people who don't understand it or who actively hate it.

I try to be quite outwardly aro/ace and queer in order to take the bullet for others (as much as I can handle ofc).

[-] AceProgrammer42 3 points 1 year ago

Hopefully that does remain the same yeah. I think we'll be fine though. Most ace or aro people will probably be inclusive because they understand what it's like to not be (fully) straight. At least to me this made it a lot easier to also understand the struggles of other LGBT+ people.

I also hope that we can shake the "pendulum effect" that the subreddit had. Where there seemed to be a constant cycle of "subreddit is mostly sex-repulsed memes -> sex-neutral and favourable people feel left out and get annoyed -> subreddit is mostly sex-neutral or favourable memes -> sex repulsed and averse people feel left out and get annoyed -> subreddit is mostly sex-repulsed memes" .

[-] AceProgrammer42 2 points 1 year ago

This is actually one of the main reasons I had for coming out as aro/ace. Not necessarily only grandchildren, but also remarks about getting a girlfriend etc. Coming out had the intended effect though, it has effectively stopped these remarks from occurring.

[-] AceProgrammer42 2 points 1 year ago

I'm aro/ace, and never felt attraction to anyone. Being sex-repulsed, I also had a hard time with the constant stream sexual topics coming up all the time. For the longest time I just felt like something was wrong with me, because no one told me that being aro/ace was an option. Everyone around me was talking about love and sex, and sometimes also asking me about these topics. I just pretended to be straight but "focussing on school and hobbies" so I didn't" have the time" for a relationship.

At some point in my early-mid twenties I ran into a survey which listed "asexual" as an option, and I just selected it without really knowing what the exact definition was, because it felt like a perfect description. After this happened another time a few weeks later (I like surveys), I started investigating what it actually meant and finally found my place.

Discovering being aro/ace actually made me more more positive about sex and romance, even though I'd still never have sex myself. It allowed me to explore this side in much further depth, and to also find the parts that I am more comfortable with

[-] AceProgrammer42 1 points 1 year ago

I don't see how it would be unfair as long as his testosterone levels are within average the male range.

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