I just read where someone was adamantly stating that heteroromantic people were NOT STRAIGHT. Am I missing something, or aren't they usually? Like not something you need to yell about?

There's a whole kerfluffle going on (primarily on Tumblr, IIRC) where some asexual people think asexuality falls under the umbrella of "queer." However, some queer people are saying OH HELL NO, that just the broad category of asexual doesn't fit under queer, that bi- and homoromantic people can claim queer, but heteroromantic people can't.

The gist I'm getting is that the heteroromatic/aromantic people who think they should be able to claim queer is that (1) asexuality is a non-standard sexuality, and (2) asexual people are oppressed.

The counter-argument from queer people opposed to that is that (1) "queer" = / = all "non-standard" sexuality, and (2) heteroromantic asexuals easily pass for plain old heterosexual and therefore benefit from straight privilege and are not oppressed.

That's my understanding of the kerfluffle. It may be not entirely accurate, as I've stopped following it, except for where it creeps into the LJ asexual community.

Yeah that is extremely bad form. And she probably will get called on it in a community as tight knit as Derby's. Just a couple of weeks ago an illustrator friend had to send a cease and desist order (or whatever you call it) to a league who were using a derby image she'd created on their website. I'd strongly argue against it.

I've been reading a lot of stuff online complaining about stolen images and artwork and it just blows that we have to deal with it. We took the image down off of the FB event page but it's almost too late to redo the event posters we've printed up already. She's a year or two more experience in derby and I would have thought she'd know better. Ugh.

Can someone explain what heteroromantic means again? Because I'm way confused now.

Ooh, I hope you oust Conway. Frankly, I wish we could totally start over in B'more. I have no animus with SRB, I think she has done a reasonable job given the circs, but there's an oldboys-n-girls network deeply entrenched, and I'd like to see that go away.

Can someone explain what heteroromantic means again? Because I'm way confused now.

Asexual (not interested in the sexytimes), but interested in a romantic relationship with a member of the opposite gender. Hearts and flowers but no penises. (Which is glib but more or less a shorthand version of it.)

I think in that case then, I'm heterkeepyourflowers.

I like to believe that "flowers" can be loosely interpreted as "comics."

Okay then: heteroletsgetiton!

I have no animus with SRB, I think she has done a reasonable job given the circs

I didn't really until this story started unfolding

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Something not right is going on in that administration.

Thanks, Steph. That's what I thought, but I lost the thread there for a minute.