I bet you've heard plenty of stupid stuff. Let's collect. On aromantic people: "Oh my gosh, what poor people!" *said in a tone of voice as if we were talking about teenagers with cancer* "Sick. I can't imagine what it's like not to have emotions." On people being aromantic-bisexual: "Sooo...psychopaths!"
On being trans and straight: Are you sure you aren't bi? Oh! You're a lesbian/Aren't you just a lesbian? From my family, who apparently think I'm ace: Wait, you're attracted to girls!? Like sexually? I didn't think you even had any interest in that kind of stuff!
Regarding bi/pan people: "You're disgusting if you choose to be heterosexual when you have the option not to." - Tumblr, how we all love you... :dry: Regarding asexual people: "Just give them viagra." Regarding lesbian women: "At least it's sexy." Regarding autistic people: "They just don't have feelings, right?" - this came from someone in my Psychology lectures. You'd think they'd be more aware considering they're studying Psychology... Regarding trans people: "You'd be a real sexy ladyboy." "But when Bill and George and discussing the football, they'll turn to you and you won't be able to say anything." - my brother-in-law, telling me that being male is going to ruin my social life because... I don't like football much? I know like 10 other guys who don't like football, come on...
From a man at a supposedly pansexual kinky support group, to me: You're too pretty to be a lesbian, you must be bi. From my mother (while out shopping) on the same day she later wondered why we don't go out together more often: You should be grateful I didn't disown you when I found out you were [a lesbian]. (I don't remember the actual term she used)
Regarding sexuality? Well people asking me wether i was trying to make a political statement by being bi/ pan. Worse people actually identifying as Bi/pan as a political statement *facepalm* Then the usual"you just need Dick" or "can we have a threesome?" to lesbians I'm not gonna start on asexuality or any variations thereof....*double facepalm* ---------- Post added 29th Sep 2016 at 01:21 PM ---------- (there's also pedophilia but that's just me being political and demanding more help and awareness like the idealist i am not)
Might as well spoiler this... Ignorant comments down here in crazy territory and the things I wish I could say in response. There's kind of a lot. :dry: Spoiler "You just haven't met the right man yet!" Well, we're playing that game are we? You haven't met the right woman yet, miss. "I don't have to question it, I know it's true because I feel it." Uh huh. I have a feeling you're wrong, so I know that's true. "You gays don't repopulate, it's going to lead to human extinction! Overpopulated world, less than 10% of population. Please. "Atheists just want to sin!" I encourage you to get your own dictionary, they're not expensive. "Trans people just men are crossdressing for attention!" That's drag. Once again, I encourage you to get that dictionary. It's lovely. Also there's more than one gender, silly. "We don't have to live our lives now, we can do that in the next!" Don't throw away the only sure chance you have for the miniscule percentage you could be even half correct. Live your life, enjoy it, please. "Ted Cruz will be this sodomite country's savior!" Yeah dad, look what happened. I would even take Captain Tangerine up there over him, and that's saying something. "We should just bomb (country) off the face of the earth!" And kill countless innocents in the process? Where's those "family values" you were so hyped about earlier? "We should just kill all the gays and be done with it." Of course the first answer is always genocide, lovely. By the way, we aren't the ones making gay babies. "We should make laws based off the God of the Bible." Because that worked so well for the other theocracies, didn't it? "Abortion is murder!" So I guess male ejaculation is genocide, then? Straight oral is cannibalism? "Global warming is a myth because God didn't say it was a thing." How ironic. "Only white people can accomplish real things!" Go on, show me the true power of your skin pigmentation. Blind me. "Only men can think rationally!" I find this heavily ironic considering our conversation thus far. No, it's the mind that matters. It's not a magic wand. "Even if the kid is a gay atheist we should make them go to church, because we're moral parents." Even if the kid believes in democracy I should raise them in communism, it's just what I was taught and I don't like thinking too hard about other ways. Totally rational. "Those video games are a waste of time and electricity, we have TV!" Says the one who has spent the entire day in the same spot, watching handegg and not thinking or making decisions. "You should draw something else more normal." We've got plenty of normal. That's why it's called normal. "Why? Doesn't Canada have slavery, though?" Nope. You're just as free in body, and even more in mind. "Lesbian sex isn't real sex." Flightless birds aren't real birds. Oh, it has bird in the very phrase doesn't it? My bad. "All of the immigrants are terrorists, I know because it was on Fox!" I feel you should read more credible source material. Heck, Google images will give you a better answer than Fox. "But don't gay people make HIV?" Nobody "makes" HIV. If you mean contracting, anyone can get it. Also since we're girls that'd be lower. Do some research please. "You should stay here, get a job and settle down." Oh right, because being kicked out of a job and being evicted from my home based solely on birth condition is certainly a stable way to live. No, I'm moving. "Were you sexually abused by a girl as a kid or something? Of course not. 1: That doesn't determine sexuality. 2: Even if so, I'm pretty sure it'd be the opposite. You don't get abused, especially someone you aren't attracted to, and go "Oh, how hot!" "We're the most free nation in the world!" Then why are you pestering me to copy you and trying to stop me from living my life the way I want? "Animation is for babies, adults watch live action." Yeah that guy getting decapitated by a giant mech is totally child friendly, I'll recommend it to the preschool teachers. Thanks. Tell me how thrilling the Tellitubbies get tonight. "Men are still just all around better, just look at the history books, women didn't do anything." Just because you have a dick, doesn't mean you have to be one. Also it's a little harder to do things with the laws working against you. Just look at marriage equality and abortion clinics. "Why do you want to save the world so badly? The rapture will happen eventually so it's pointless. Even then God can just make another one." So it's OK if we blow up the earth. Bad news for every comic villain ever. I get this kind of nonsense to my face on a daily basis, and it pains me to hold back the overflowing amounts of sarcasm I have to keep in.
A guy at my college LGBT group admitted that he used to think pansexual meant people who are attracted to pandas :bang: really?
"I was obviously flirting as a joke!" I hope I never hear someone say anything more stupid than that.
