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[sciatrix]

So 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.

Comments

[kaz]

Wait wait wait that was a lie?!

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?"

[aceeccentric]

I was really disappointed by that too and I'm not even that into comics. :( I don't understand why people create hoaxes like that.

[demacrux]

I was quite upset that that was a hoax..ugh.

Semi-random surfing in (from either Kaz, or, uhm somewhere)

[willow]

I got horridly confused when I first started reading your entry, clicked the post and started reading and saw the word condition. I couldn't understand why you'd be so happy when asexuality was being called a condition, repeatedly, in the same tone as one would use for affliction.

So I stared and stared at the post and couldn't stop wincing, left, came back to it, and eventually finished reading your entry and saw that it was in fact, exactly what it looked like; people mocking a subset of fans who find Tim and Kon to be really close and deciding to 'show them' by making Tim asexual, as if it's the equivalent of making Tim somehow dead. Ugh.