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Aug. 13th, 2011 08:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sciatrixSo this popped up on Tumblr today. And I read it and got very excited--not even entirely because the idea of Tim Drake being asexual is awesome, but because it had a creator discussing an asexual character and acknowledging that asexuality is a sexual orientation that real people have, and oh my gosh I never get to see that.
And then I noticed that the source was broken. And that when I Googled around I could find no other mention of it. And then I stopped to consider what the actual likelihood of DC Comics doing something like this was and... yeah. Unlikely.
I just. I don't even. Why would you lie about this?! What possible reason would someone have to create this hoax? Why would you do this?
I'm angry and upset and frustrated, because it feels like someone dangled a delicious sandwich in my face while I'm starving and then snatched it away. And now, on top of everything, I'm feeling especially sensitized to the way creators frame asexual characters in media. Because you know that creators never bother to mention that asexuality's a sexual orientation, or that actual asexual people might want to see themselves now and again. That alone ought to have tipped me off, and I am so angry and sad that I feel that way.
And then I noticed that the source was broken. And that when I Googled around I could find no other mention of it. And then I stopped to consider what the actual likelihood of DC Comics doing something like this was and... yeah. Unlikely.
I just. I don't even. Why would you lie about this?! What possible reason would someone have to create this hoax? Why would you do this?
I'm angry and upset and frustrated, because it feels like someone dangled a delicious sandwich in my face while I'm starving and then snatched it away. And now, on top of everything, I'm feeling especially sensitized to the way creators frame asexual characters in media. Because you know that creators never bother to mention that asexuality's a sexual orientation, or that actual asexual people might want to see themselves now and again. That alone ought to have tipped me off, and I am so angry and sad that I feel that way.
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Date: 2011-08-14 06:20 am (UTC)I... D: D: D:. And with you. What the FUCK, hoax-creators? is this our trolls thinking "hey, let's see what happens if we get people's hopes up and then dash them cruelly?"
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Date: 2011-08-14 01:14 pm (UTC)And I don't even KNOW. Like, I mean, there's 300-odd notes of people going alternately "oh my god, oh my god, oh my god" and "I'm pretty sure they're going to fuck this up" and then "...this is a hoax, fuck" at this point. I just. What was the point of this?
I don't even know if it was directed at asexuals or if it was intended to jerk someone else's chain. It was posted in a bunch of tags and the OP's blog seems to be mostly a comics blog, but it's well-established--they link to a Livejournal going back to 2007 as theirs, so I don't think it's a sock, but they also don't seem to be an SJ warrior, so I don't even know if it's the same group of trolls or someone who thought the idea would be funny or what. Either way, fuuuuuuuck them.