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    Movies/TV Shows without romantic plots? (Rogue One spoilers?)

    in Aromantic Discussion

    Posted

    • I think that Chance, the main character of Being There is aro ace.  Others keep projecting romantic & sexual ideas on to him, though.
    • Born to be Sold.
    • The Boy With Green Hair.
    • In Canadian Bacon a woman named Honey is romance-repulsed.
    • Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close.
    • A Family Thing.
    • Fish Hawk.
    • Flash of Genius is the true story of Dr. Robert Kearns who invented the intermittent windshield wiper.  He does his duty as a Catholic by getting married & having too many kids, but his wife realizes he doesn't love her & leaves him.
    • Hard Candy starts off looking romantic, but...?
      Spoiler

      A child molester is being tricked.?

       

    Famous people who are aromantic

    in Visibility, Articles, and Meetups

    Posted

    Ralph Nader.  Never married, no romantic involvement with anyone.  

    In fact, when he talked about how dangerous the Corvair was, General Motors hired sleazy private detectives to try to dig up dirt on him.  They couldn't find anything.  They then hired women to come on to him & try to create a scandal; he was not the least bit interested.  Then they tried to find evidence of homosexuality--failed again.  Source:  The Investigation of Ralph Nader:  General Motors vs. One Determined Man by Thomas Whiteside.

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    Scariest movies for you as a child

    in Off Topic

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    11 hours ago, Rolo said:

    Watership Down, Quatermass and The Pit (considering it was made in the 1960s on a very low budget it is unreasonably terrifying),  and Alien (my dad got in a lot of trouble for letting we watch that).

    Quatermass and the Pit was great.  Professor Quatermass wasn't well known in the US so it was renamed 5 Million Years to Earth here.  It inspired the 1985 Hollywood film Lifeforce.

    The worst romantic movies

    in Off Topic

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    Gattaca.  A man is about to go into space for at least 2 years; you'd have to be insane to start a relationship at a time like that, yet the moviemakers felt the need to include one anyway.  It gets worse--there is a love scene at a time when she believes him to be a murderer.  I can only interpret that to mean that she let him do it because she's scared.  The female lead is a well rounded character who is important to the story, but they shouldn't have made her his lover.

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    Scariest movies for you as a child

    in Off Topic

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    Kolchak the Night Stalker.  Based on the novel by Jeff Rice which became 2 TV movies:  The Night Stalker & The Night Strangler; then the TV series.  Carl Kolchak is a crime reporter, but many of the deaths he investigates turn out to have supernatural causes.  This monster of the week show is mostly forgotten now, but it inspired many other shows including The Incredible Hulk (1977-82), Werewolf (1987-8) & The X Files.  https://dai.ly/x31lpzu

    tell me one (or a lot) of reason(s) you love being Aro!

    in Aromantic Pride and Culture

    Posted · Edited by 2 Spirit Cherokee Princess

    I don't have to worry about suddenly becoming irrational & obsessive over someone.  I won't act like a pervert or abandon a friend for a chance to get closer to someone I just met.

    You know, I'm glad we can talk like this on Arocalypse.  At AVEN the rules are like "don't say it's an advantage to be ace, that's discrimination!"  But from a minority perspective:  3GL-you-keep-using-that-word-but-i-don-t

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    Sirens and aromatics

    in Aro-cade

    Posted

    I read the Odyssey once for literature class long ago.  I only remember Odysseus as a thug.  He killed people left & right; he tortured people (did he gouge someone's eyes out?); & he cheated on his wife as much as possible--while she remained faithful to him, I think.  Someone like him valued truth?? 

    There was no romance?  The only part of Greek culture I like today is a book of poems by a woman named Sappho who talks about love a lot.?‍❤️‍?

    In Japanese folklore there is a vampiric creature living on snowy mountains?️ called Yuki Onna (Snow Woman).  Rather than blood, she can't produce body heat.  She is said to be so beautiful? she can enchant both men & women into wanting to kiss her--so she can suck out your body heat & you die of hypothermia.  I should add that ancient Japanese culture had no need for homophobia, & women experimenting with each other was no big deal.  So we can't say for sure if she could capture an aro-ace.

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    Another fool who has had it up to here with AVEN

    in Welcome And Forum Rules

    Posted · Edited by 2 Spirit Cherokee Princess

    I recently read the Arocalypse is Shutting Down thread.  There was some talk of AVEN's involvement, & it was chilling:

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    For the most part, Arocalypse would maintain it's autonomy. We'd have separate Terms of Service, and bans would not transfer between sites automatically. That being said, the AdMod teams of the forums might share information with one another in case bans are very serious. (A stalker who gets banned on one forum would automatically get a ban on the other).

    I have 2 "Stalking/Harassing"  warnings against me on AVEN, though I've done no such thing.  If the AVEN staff had their way, I'd be banned from here too.

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