"Aly". Do all troonies and enbies just change name to something like that or does mental illness come with that name prepackaged?
This aromantic shit is up there with women taking pride in telling people they're "unfiltered" and "not nice". They want to be held down and corrected. They're tired of dudes with no personalities so they express an extreme one to invite someone in to break them in. One of two things happened: They were raped and fear sex, yet read enough female goon litterature to want to experience love, or they're extreme pick-me's who want a leg up on other women who are so BORING they just want SEX and BABIES. I guarantee within a few years we'll see mid-20s chicks fetishize having babies. It'll be a hyper pick-me in a sea of aromantic agander aqueer asexhavers atrannychasers.
I think you read too much into it and give this title ("aromantic") way too much credit. I believe the vast majority of these "aromantic" and "demi-romantic" are people, mostly teenage girls and young women, who think that everyone else experience love at first sight or feel romantic attraction very quickly after they meet a person, making them the minority, and therefore, different and also oppressed.
They are very ignorant and don't read books, don't listen to life stories of older people, have no knowledge nor experience, and don't comprehend that the issue of romantic love was always a tricky one throughout the history of humankind basically, and that there have been many philosophical debates and theories over this, as well as corpuses of literature, prose and poetry. They read fanfiction and fandom shipping, which are basically contemporary romance novels, the same way young women read in the 19 and 20 century, and think they are special in wanting this kind of romantic love but not feeling it in real life - not realizing that generations of women and teenage girls at their age felt exactly the same.
I honestly don't think it's any deeper than that. Young people nowadays just love give labels for every fucking common human experience, and then think it's something special and that they are in some kind of minority for feeling like that, which automatically also means they are oppressed, because minorities are always oppressed by the majority. And now they have to demand human rights too, because of course the majority don't allow them basic haman rights. It doesn't cross their minds that these are common experiences of many people throughout their life, experiences that often also change with times, and when you try to argue with them about that they insist that what they experience and feel are special and unique, and you just don't understand, and also you are a "phobe". It's such a teenager-y thing to do and feel, this "what I feel is unique and you don't understand", only now adolescence is stretched way beyond the 10s years of a person life and well into their 30s. Surrounding themselves in echo chamber of similar minded people does not help matters. Nor is the fact that now responsible adults are saying that everything is valid and that they should
educate society about their unique and special "
identities".
imo it's similar with "asexual" and "demi-sexual". They think the fact that they don't feel immediate sexual attraction to a stranger they find aesthetically pleasant means they are different, a minority in a world in which everyone has a boner or wet their panties to a sight of some hot stranger. Our world seems so hypersexual, what with the emphasize on sex in every TV show, every advertisement, the easy access to porn, the high levels of sex and porn in fandom - they think the vast majority of people are actually like that. In reality, a lot of people don't feel like that,
especially females. They only starts to feel really sexually attracted after knowing the person some more and sometimes it takes some time. Especially if you are inexperienced, afraid of sex, afraid of what the other side might do and need to feel reassured and safe as a prerequisite to feel sexual arousal, have all kinds of inhibitions, suffer depression, suffer anxiety, or take certain medications for depression and anxiety that suppress sexual drive. Again, especially
women.
Females.
