I’d be so tempted to forward the emails to his professor - IF he is in fact a 3rd year student of … anything. 🙄😈

The bad and rude joke reminds me of the Asexual documentary. I'm here to say hi to you, swank Ivy. In fact, I came from that documentary recently. It's amazing and encouraging to have you keep doing this. I hope AVEN can make a new documentary to show good changes. Thank you very much for all of your work and efforts. I will keep reading that book and watching your videos. (sorry, my English is not good. But I will keep improving it to understand the content.) I'm here dreaming of participating in Pride Day one day.💜🖤🤍

@swankivy

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Yes, there were similar jokes in the Asexual documentary, you are right! Hello, thank you for coming to see me!

Thank you for sharing this

I'd be shocked it came from a biologist but i have heard this same thing from these kind of people, i do wish it was rare enough to be surprising though. And i said out loud to myself "what about the word theory" just before you said it, that made me laugh. People get hung up on words so much rather than the meaning being conveyed, bugs me no end. Oh an i love how comprehensive you are responding to them, it's funny that they can't handle that.

@swankivy

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Yeah, it's hard to imagine that an ACTUAL educated biologist would take this position, but sadly there are some people who have high education and still can't look past really low prejudice. That's hilarious that you thought of the "theory" argument right before I said it! Great minds.

@cushmanarmitige2369

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@@swankivy Yeah intelligence doesn't link up with wisdom as much as i thought it would when i was a kid, i kinda miss the optimism there a little. Oh an if you want people to read your book i'd be up for that. I would be happy to help.

You're still obsessed with Steven Universe, and it's great! XD I'm currently re-watching it myself.

@swankivy

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Yes, still SUPER into it. I have the biggest SU collection in the world I think, and I cosplay the characters, know the songs and play them on uke, run a podcast and a blog about it, recreate the recipes, review the books and comics, draw fanart...basically yeah I am a gigantic fan!

@EGV88

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@@swankivy I think I saw one episode of your (or someone else's podcast on SU years ago. I tried looking for it on your channel and website but couldn't find anything. Can you link?

@swankivy

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@@EGV88 If you're talking about the discussion podcast I do with my friend Daria, it's called Not-So-Giant Women!

He doesn’t realize it, but he inadvertently debunked his own argument when he stated that words are created by people. Yes, and words acquire new meanings thanks to those very same people-words like (wait for it) “asexual”…. I’ve heard countless responses of this type over the years, and I have to wonder, why are people so threatened by the notion of asexuality? What does a mere label have to do with them?

@swankivy

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I know right? I made the same point!

Asexuals are attractive in a vicarious sense irregardless of if they do not think they are..😂😂😹😹

You are right to snap back to their ignorance you are an amazing those losers are never entitled you are an awesome as you are they choose to be so ignorant love you're videos you are beautiful and valid as the woman you are wouldn't like to cross you

"I was confused!" Dude, let me introduce you to Google... I heard recently that what we now call asexuality was once called monosexuality. If that name stuck, I guarantee they'd find a way to make a joke about that term too.

@swankivy

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Yeah basically. There were lots of terms for it, or ways to refer to it while not naming it. It's just so friggin' baffling to see someone claim to be a third-year student in a science and then act like a term is just too confusing for him. (It became transparent when educating him about it and about why joking about asexual reproduction to an activist you've never spoken to before and have no rapport with resulted in a desperate need to tear me down.) And like you said, ultimately the term isn't even what matters. People will discriminate against us, misunderstand us, and target us as outsiders no matter how clear our terms are. (And they're already pretty clear.)

@speciesmg7537

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@@swankivy absolutely. They focus on these minutiae because they don't want to focus on the argument itself

@swankivy

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Yeah. And what does it say about him that an established term for an orientation which has been discussed in academic and scientific contexts with no issues "confuses" him so much? And leaves him scrambling to chuck imagined insults at an activist established in that field?

How do you get to say you'd be interested in beta reading?

@swankivy

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There's nothing to read yet so I haven't established a procedure for it, but I guess if people would be interested then they can look for a video with instructions and use the e-mail address on my channel to volunteer.

I'm old enough to remember back when you DID use the term nonsexual 🤭

@HouseCatTV

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(and why you decided to accept asexual) I think that was your blog, right?

@swankivy

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They didn't even call them blogs at the time I was using that term! I wrote about it on an essay on my website. I didn't switch over to using "asexual" as my main term until after AVEN became more established and I decided I wanted to make awareness videos.