“Violence and discrimination” where?????

Corrective rape is an issue asexual people have and do face, there are posts from asexual people on this very website of people describing how their SO’s would coersively rape them in an attempt to ‘cure’ their asexuality, I have seen several of these

Asexual people are also just as likely to be denied rentals as pan, bi, and gay folk, according to the very first studies coming out about it. 

Asexual people frequently receive rape threats from people promising that ‘a good fuck’ will ‘fix’ us (I don’t know about you, but AS a rape survivor, I count rape threats as violence and discrimination).

Asexuality was considered a sexual dysfunction by the psychology community right up until 2015, meaning it was medicalized longer than any other sexual orientation. Many still continue to push the belief that it is ‘just your horomones’ or ‘just a phase’ or ‘you just haven’t met the right person yet’.

In fact, the very first study has found that straight people view asexuals more negatively than any other sexual orientation. Here’s the direct quote in case you decide you’re a better judge for the asexual experience than asexuals are:

Results showed that:

• As one would expect from a group of participants who were mostly heterosexual, their attitudes towards fellow heterosexuals was the most positive.
   
   
  
• Less positive were their attitudes towards homosexuals, followed by bisexuals.
     
     
• Surprisingly, the most negative attitudes were towards asexuals.

They concluded:

“… we find significantly more    bias against asexuals than other sexual minorities,  and discrimination intentions matching that against homosexuals. Overall, we find clear evidence of a previously unidentified and strong sexual minority prejudice:  antiasexual bias.” 1

So fuck off with telling us that we’re facing no discrimination when the facts have been found otherwise. In the second study they added “sapiosexuals” and people STILL viewed asexuals the most negatively:

In the second study, they reported that:

“… attitudes toward heterosexuals were the most positive, followed by attitudes    toward homosexuals, bisexuals, and asexuals.    Within sexual minorities, homosexuals and bisexuals were evaluated equivalently, with asexuals evaluated more negatively than both homosexuals and
   bisexuals. … Again, the pattern of anti-asexual prejudice, relative to the heterosexual    ingroup and even relative to other sexual minorities
   was uncovered. Importantly, this general pattern of differential evaluation of sexual orientation    groups matches that of Study 1, even though attitudes toward each group are more positive in the    online (vs. student) sample. …  heterosexual identification corroborate    our findings from Study 1: prejudice-prone individuals are more biased toward asexuals. …”

They concluded:

“… We provide evidence that antiasexual bias is a form of sexual minority prejudice, that those prone to prejudice are more prone to antiasexual bias, and that asexuals are targets of dehumanization, avoidance,and discrimination intentions. Further, we demonstrate that bias toward asexuals is either equivalent to, or even more extreme, than bias toward homosexuals and bisexuals. … Asexuals are the sexual minority that is most clearly considered “deficient” by heterosexuals. … Although antiasexual bias is a clear component of sexual minority prejudice, it is also unique in that it was repeatedly stronger than bias toward other sexual minorities. Most disturbingly, asexuals are viewed as less human, especially lacking in
   terms of human nature. This confirms that sexual desire is considered a key component of    human nature, and those lacking it are viewed as
   relatively deficient, less human, and disliked. It    appears that asexuals do not “fit” the typical definition of human and as such are viewed as less human or even nonhuman, rendering them an extreme sexual orientation outgroup and very strong targets of bias. Future research can address the mechanisms underlying this tendency.”

Here’s a couple more links for you to read, but if you can really look at the fact that straight people hate asexuals more than any other orientation and still act like we’re somehow privileged or benefit in any way from straight privileged, then you are just ignoring the facts at this point. TW for rape mention in the second one, part 4 is about corrective rape and rape threats against asexuals.

@ y'all who keep saying “give me one good reason why asexuals are oppressed”