what's it called when you treat romantic relationships like platonic ones but not on purpose and could someone pls explain how feelings work thnx

As an asexual person, some of comments already popping up on this article are extremely disheartening. I spent 20plus years of my life trying to fit in with my peers as they discovered sex and sexuality and so on. I literally felt broken; 'why hasn't it happened to me yet?' The conversations about what one finds…

The way society focuses so much about sex as the ultimate goal does suck. For a really long time, I felt like I was a failure to women everywhere because I was a young woman who just didn't care about having sex, and every single person is telling you "you should go have lots of sex because yeah girl power!" and all…

All the commenters calling this snowflaking just sound like a callback to middle school: 'bisexual???? that's not a thing, you have to be one or the other, you're just trying to be cool but you're lying'... Just because it hasn't been recognized in the past doesn't mean it's not real.

reminds me of the hate people have for vegetarians lol

The special snowflake comments have already started.

I am grey asexual, but I have had sex and some not bad sex at that. But I don't crave it, and despite the good feels I got I find it generally icky.

Really? It doesn't sound like it at all to me. It sounds more like they go through much longer periods of little to no interest in sex than I do, or from what many of my friends do (at least, to hear them describe it). Some don't even get aroused at all - that sounds much different from my normal expression of…

Do I need to get out the asexual erasure bingo cards!

If women weren't drilled from birth on table manners and expected to be overly conscious of what they eat and who they eat in front of, than this would be surprising.

They're likely the same people who think telling women in public they're "prettier when they smile" is an act of civil nobility.

"PC!" is what farts out when some reactionary old white dude gets poked in his privilege.

The Republican mindset:

It's interesting how all these institutions like Hollywood and the media and the court system and the government have been operated near-exclusively by men since their inception are all somehow biased against men.

"Hollywood in general has often sent the message that men are superfluous, that they're stupid, that they're often in the way,"

"Hollywood in general has often sent the message that men are superfluous, that they're stupid, that they're often in the way,"

Or a better analogy might be if your girlfriend pretended to respect you as a person and respect your boundaries, only to violate these things later to try to get in your pants.

Slightly more complicated than that, I explained it in the piece actually. It means that you identify as the gender you were assigned at birth.

Ohmygod I know. It's almost like women are annoyed that in order to get to work every day (hustlaaaaa) they have to be smooshed up all uncomfortably against strange men who feel more entitled to space "because balls"! WHAT ARE THE BITCHES WHINING ABOUT

still, it's nice to see a bunch of people suddenly give a crap about the threat of sexual assault to women. except where it's actually happening.