[ SECRET POST #4824 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4824 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Because there is a strong societal narrative that ace people are just 1. picky, and 2. broken, and all they need is The Right Person to come along and fix them.

And while there is a small percentage of ace people who are like me, and very much wish we could be allo, the majority of ace people (from everything I've seen) are good with being ace - they just wish people would stop treating their asexuality like a temporary glitch, a damage that needs fixing.

So any narrative that furthers the pervasive attitude that an ace person might become allo by meeting the right person is, yeah, questionable. I don't think it's completely invalid, because sexuality is complicated and sometimes fluid, and it's certainly possible that an ace person might find someone they have those feelings about. But it's a tricky story to tell sensitively, in a somewhat similar way to if you wanted to tell the story of a gay person who found their "one exception" in someone of the opposite sex. Is that a totally invalid story? Not inherently? But is it pretty darn dicey? IMO, yes.

[(Anonymous)]

So for the sake of social responsibility, people shouldn't write their wish fulfillment fic? Fic that is possibly providing them and readers with emotional solace?

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think there's a hard and fast rule about "should" or "shouldn't" when it comes to writing this stuff. But if you do write it, you may get criticism, especially if you're writing inaccurately about any group that faces discrimination.

Like I said, if someone wrote a fic in which a gay character ended up falling for someone of the opposite sex, some people might criticize their choice to do that. I wouldn't personally be in the comments piling on, but I can understand where that criticism would be coming from.