So, its Aromantic Awareness Week

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I've read around (a little) but I'm still not sure why this constitutes an identity to be championed by Stonewall etc.

Anyone shed any light on this and on the language (spectrum; allies) ...?

Genuine question but would aromantic cover- single person would like a relationship but doesn't currently fancy anyone IRL; person choosing to be single due to life circumstances (eg single parent, carer, travels a lot) & a person in a long term relationship which started out romantic & is now platonic (eg decades long marriage, now sexless by mutual decision). Aren't they all aromantics? How about a widow/widower who chooses not to have another relationship? I'm confused!

I really clicked on this thinking it was going to be about awareness for those of us with severe fragrance allergy and how it actually can devastate lives.

RE: Platonic relationships being recognised under the law. File under: be careful what you wish for.

This happens in Poland: a household of unrelated adults can register itself as a special status. The benefits are limited and mostly tax-related, but it is a “thing” and yes I guess it can provide limited and household-specific social acceptance - while forestalling political and economic acceptance and excusing social conservatives from acknowledging the broader need for such.

Poland has no legal same-sex marriage, no same sex civil partnerships, transitioning is MTF or FTM only and requires a successful court case and medicalisation with a typical timeframe of 5+ years, and women’s rights are under sustained attack.

But yay! One can be what random people in the UK/Anglosphere call “genderqueer”! I’m off to tweet congratulations to Andrej Duda; I bet he doesn’t know the English word for his policies but will love to use it to his advantage.

(Please excuse my cynicism, any actual feminists. It’s just really exhausting reading this nonsense.)

Maduixa which means no same-sex adoption, and little acceptance of people parenting their own biological children outside a heterosexual relationship, like a mother who lives with a same-sex partner?

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Maduixa which means no same-sex adoption, and little acceptance of people parenting their own biological children outside a heterosexual relationship, like a mother who lives with a same-sex partner?

Legally yes. Socially - for someone who has children and then enters into a same-sex relationship or a same sex couple who comes from abroad with children - it may vary based on location but my experience (I'm not a native Pole) is mainly in Warsaw where it's pretty widely accepted that people do have same sex relationships and that there are households with same sex partners raising children. The pushback in Poland, from what I know, is more a resistance to what would be called "gender ideology" in the UK than that anyone minds a woman kissing her girlfriend on the street or two men out shopping with their mutual children. That doesn't mean there isn't homophobia and transphobia, just that it takes different forms than it might in Western Europe/North America, etc.