“…we do have to do the hard work and take the time to find out if someone is actually disingenuous…”

there is not NEARLY enough noise on this post !!! CELEBRATE ITS BIRTHDAYYYYYY

A public service announcement to the asexual community regarding a harmful meme: No the ace community shouldn’t even think of invading Denmark

First off the poll above is really important as it draws attention to a very contentious meme that has been re-circulating amongst our community. I don’t want to sound mean (totally not my intention), but the ace community really needs to leave this joke and meme in the past now. I don’t want to get political, but I need to. With Russian invading Ukraine, the genocide in Palestine, Trump invading Venezuela, and threatening to take Greenland by force- this meme leaves a rancid taste in my mouth. I see this meme on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Tumblr and so many people need to realize how harmful it is, especially in today’s political climate. It’s a meme that is deeply rooted in colonialism. The AceCouple (episode 60) has a great podcast on the history of the meme- https://theacecouple.com/episode060/. Yasmin Benoit, one of the top ace activists and asexual researchers, expressed her concerns about this meme and I highly encourage you to visit her Instagram to read her thoughts on it.

Furthermore, due to today’s political climate this joke/meme comes off as deeply tone deaf and insensitive. As an asexual myself who has family there, Denmark is already dealing with the US “president” threatening invasion of Greenland. Invasion has become a very real threat for many of our LGBTQIA+ family around the world. Can we please leave this joke in the past? Other members of the ace and greater LGBTQ+ community have expressed their concerns. It makes the ace community look insensitive to what is happening in our world- we are part of a larger community and need to take a stand and support others around the world. There are so many other cute jokes and memes that our community can use. You can call me every nasty name you want, but please, let’s leave this hurtful one in the past.

I wanted to add here the link as an easy clickable link and also say that it has a transcript too if anyone doesn't want to listen to a podcast.

Oh my god this is SO much worse knowing the entire context holy shit PLEASE read this transcript or listen to the podcast!

so essentially there’s this cool horse drawn into the hills in england made out of chalk and it’s like 3,000 years old.

people carved trenches 3,000 years ago and filled them with chalk in the shape of a horse but what’s interesting is that if you fail to maintain the horse by adding new chalk regularly, it will disappear. for 3,000 years, we’ve been filling in chalk in this horse so it doesn’t disappear.

we’ll never know what the purpose of the horse was originally. we’ll never know if it had ritual or spiritual significance or if it was just art. but we do know that people maintained it then, and, even though the meaning of the horse has long been lost to time, we continue to maintain it now.

the people who made this horse are long dead, but they live through us still, don’t you think?

couldn’t agree more we’re best friends now

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