golbatgender:

golbatgender:

Friendly reminder for pride month that if someone’s willing to call themselves queer, they’re probably queer, and you don’t know anyone well enough to determine otherwise for them 😳✨🌈

@luchile said: “
#ok but i will Fite™ cishet aces on sight!!!!“

No, you won’t, and you’re missing most of the point of this post. If someone’s willing to be called queer and take on what that means, they’re queer, and you don’t get to make the decision on that. If someone’s actually straight, they’ll back out of it pretty quick because they’ll get a taste of homophobia and decide it isn’t worth the buzzwords.

Look at what the actual threats to queer people are. The government. Police brutality. Rising fascism. Lack of social services. Lack of affordable healthcare. “Cishet aces,” who are about 1% of all asexuals to begin with, don’t even make the list. And how are you going to tell which ones are “cishet,” anyway? Nah, you just want a convenient boogeyman you can actually hurt, because the real evil people in power are too scary and you don’t want to spend actual effort fighting for anything or doing anything that would benefit more than just you.