It truly is a pleasure to watch you work, eloquence an style with a metaphorical slap in the face, never stop being you.

Don't you just love it when a guy manages to check every "Asexual Bingo" box in just one brief blog post?

@swankivy

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That's talent

The 'asexual is a method of reproduction' argument reminds me of another one I've seen in LGBT discussions. 'Phobia means fear of and I'm not scared of gay/trans people so therefore I can't be homophobic/transphobic'. Obviously words have multiple meanings and they are being obtuse on purpose instead of genuinely trying to engage with the ideas. It's a thought terminating cliche that IMO shows that they don't care to actually think and consider that they could possibly be wrong and that things could be more nuanced than what they already know. It's sad and frustrating how easy it could be for them to just look up the word and consider it but they are so intent on sticking in their ways.

@swankivy

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YES, I've seen that one a lot! And it's so disingenuous--as if any human being they're conversing with is claiming to reproduce asexually, or as if it's innovative to pretend there's only one meaning to a word, acting intentionally oblivious to other uses and utterly resistant to learning anything. Like . . . they think that makes THEM look clever? When they pretend to believe such a simpleminded thing, and react as if we're the ones who believe it? It's a lot like those doofuses who hear us on the left saying "Hey can we be more inclusive about the gendered language we use when discussing reproductive health care and abortion? Since not everyone who is a woman can get pregnant and not everyone who can get pregnant is a woman?" and then they go back to their own spaces and bleat "WELL THE LIBS DON'T WANT US TO SAY 'WOMAN' ANYMORE, WOMAN IS NOW A FILTHY WORD, WE CAN'T SAY WOMAN ANYMOREEEEEE."

What really gets me about this one though is that the tone in which it is written as if these are new points that they are such a genius for thinking of, yet for any out asexual person these things are very run of the mill initial reactions. There isn't anything special or groundbreaking about claiming that asexuality must have come from trauma.

@swankivy

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Right? It's pretty amazing how they dump diagnosis word salad all over people who have heard it a million times, and we're like "whoa, you don't say, you think I don't know my own orientation because I've been hurt? How innovative and unique!" And yet, because THEY'VE never thought about it before and seem so excited to squirt out the weird little brain nuggets their smart little brain has come up with the very first time they considered the issue, they think these must be brand new thoughts. Ugh, it's so exhausting.

I dunno, I'm pretty sure my asexual mom "reproduced asexually" 😁

I get similarly misguided “gotcha” arguments on the vegan topic, spoken with such smug self-satisfaction. People don’t realize they aren’t original and it has been said so many times before.

@swankivy

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But Eric, what about protein? What about humans being at the top of the food chain? What about how not eating animals doesn't bring them back from the dead? What about how the animals wouldn't even be alive if we didn't raise them for food? What about how if we weren't SUPPOSED to eat animals, they surely wouldn't taste good? What about how it's Natural and the Indians did it? I'm sure you've just never heard or thought of any of these beforeand I have STUMPED YOU! WIN!

@EricBryan

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@@swankivy you know those arguments so well…if you ever get bored with asexual bingo, there is always vegan bingo 😄

everytime

@SusanOnTVShows

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Me too.

I'm 55 and have had cataract surgery, so my eyes are better than they were in the past, so I hope you don't mind me telling you that your title card at the beginning of the video says this is #84, not #94.

@swankivy

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DANGIT!! Typing mistakes suck.

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