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Neon

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  1. Is there any way to know if a user report went through/what the results are? It's not that important, but I'm curious and I've never reported someone before today.

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      Neon

      That's what I figured, I was just really curious. IDK why, I just like to know processes sometimes for no good reason.

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  2. talked about being aro in class today. kinda terrifying, but I feel better having done it.

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      Neon

      @sevanyeah everything went fine. I did it in a class where I know everyone and the teacher has been supportive of other lgbtq+ people.

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  3. Is anybody else still somehow shocked by amatonormativity? Like, today, I found out that apparently the bee and the lady in the Bee Movie were dating. Did no one question that when they made it? Was everyone somehow like "human x bee = true love"? How? Are they okay? Hundreds of people probably worked on that, and you're telling me no one raised objections? Or was it a, "well, there has to be love somewhere" thing?

    I had enough problems with that movie before, and now they throw this at me.

    1. Neon

      Neon

      Yeah, I did not catch it when watching the movie, but I found a list of problems with the movie (I just despise the movie. I don't have a good reason though), and that was one of them.

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  4. not to be That person but i feel like a lot of language used on aven is super clinical sounding. like how everyone refers to people as males or females, or to non-ace people as sexuals. like "she's a sexual female" or "I'm surrounded by sexuals." Calling people sexuals, especially, is just really dehumanizing imo. it sounds like everyone is talking about animals rather than other humans and it gives me the creeps. has anyone else noticed?

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      Neon

      @asexualpanda27 @Finn

      I agree with both points. Unfortunately terms that change or emerge aren't always going to be the best options, and given additional information, hopefully those terms are simply points to revise from.

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  5. not to be That person but i feel like a lot of language used on aven is super clinical sounding. like how everyone refers to people as males or females, or to non-ace people as sexuals. like "she's a sexual female" or "I'm surrounded by sexuals." Calling people sexuals, especially, is just really dehumanizing imo. it sounds like everyone is talking about animals rather than other humans and it gives me the creeps. has anyone else noticed?

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      Neon

      I think "clinical" is a good way to describe a lot of threads. I think it may come from the fact that regulars repeat the same thing over and over, and that becomes the jumping off point for newbies. But on the point of using "sexual" instead of allo, I recently saw a thread when sexual (most were also romantic) people explained they actually preferred that term, as well as romantic over allo.

      https://www.asexuality.org/en/topic/170720-sexual-vs-allosexual/?tab=comments#comment-1062807812

      It seems to me that allo is more of a chosen label and sexual is a general term. Not sure though, AVEN can be a bit of a mess.

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  6. I accidently added a background, but this site just won't let me add a profile picture.

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      Neon

      Hi! I had the same problem at first. It seems that the only file type that works for profile photos is .png

      It also may be tied to post count, I'm not sure.

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  7. I don't know why people say aromantic and/or asexual people are like plants. I am a fungus. I get energy when romantic relationships die. Also, fungi can reproduce sexually and asexually so there's that too.

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      Neon

      Ok, but seriously, my sister pointed out that The Umbrella Academy killed off all of its relationships, and I started doing a little happy dance.

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