Hahahaha!!!!

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I love JKR!

This is again, completely ignorant to the specific prejudices faced by the people in question.

Stonewall aren't the gotcha you think they are. Thoroughly discredited these days.

I don’t think that was necessary. While I don’t see the need for various celebratory days (as I think they are mainly corporate bullshitting) jokes about curing someone’s sexuality are in poor taste.

Anything that is even seen as adjacent to trans issues will be attacked on here.

Wtf does JKR care about this? Why do any of you care about this?

It’s clear from this thread most people don’t understand asexuality or why it impacts people’s lives.

I’m an incredibly sexual person but I imagine it would be challenging. Marriage? Kids? Puberty and the teenage years? It would be difficult.

You love someone that chose their own name as the name of the man who invented gay conversion therapy?
I hope you make it clear to ANYONE gay that you know that you love a woman who advocates for and approves of gay conversion therapy?

Otherwise you are just lying to yourself as well as everyone else.

Especially from an author who uses the name of the man who popularised conversion therapy as her pen name.

Conversion practices are activities trying to change or suppress someone’s sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. It can take medical forms, such as through psychological ‘therapies’, hormone therapies or surgeries, or they can be faith-based.

It does not say conversion practices include corrective rape. That is deeply serious and I don’t understand why they would have omitted it from their report if respondents to surveys have reported it.

You’ve shown your hand there.

I think the big problem in this discussion is that you keep referring to asexuality as an 'identity' whereas to most of us it's just that some people, who we know, who may be in our families, aren't sexually attracted to other people. It's no big deal.

I bet 'hate, prejudice and misunderstanding' is not against people who do not want to have sex; to the extent that it happens, I'm pretty sure it's against people claiming that a pretty unremarkable characteristic - not wanting to have sex - is 'an identity'.

I question the hate and prejudice - I can't imagine people caring all that much, in my experience of people who weren't sexually attracted to other people, there was so much more to them that this was just one aspect of them, and not a very unusual one.

I would be interested to know what examples of widespread 'corrective rape' of asexual people are taking place, the corrective rape [and sometimes murder] of lesbians in South Africa has been identified as a problem for the last quarter of a century or so, and there is solid, though undoubtedly incomplete, data on how widespread it is.

Or it’s just her initials…with I think a reference to her grandmother added in ?

I wasn’t wrong though. Robert Galbraith also experimented on Black prisoners. So I mean, a lovely choice all round.

Perhaps they need to stop announcing it to their friends and families then. Not everything has to be shared, not everything about you is that interesting to others.

Forgot to quote - that was in response to @MissDoubleU

JKR is very against conversion. To the extent that she thinks it's wrong that gay people feel the need to pretend to be the other sex in order to have what they call heterosexual relationships.

Exactly. Why does anyone need to tell anyone they have no sexual desire, never mind have a ‘day of visibility’ for it. This also doesn’t equate to ‘denying they exist’.

Some people have no sexual desire, the end. I currently have no sexual desire, not sure if that’s peri kicking in. No one cares. I don’t need anyone to be offended for me on my behalf. I’m also left handed and naturally on the red side. Big wows.

I personally believe that there are many more asexual people than admit it, and if people didn’t hate on them so much, maybe they would tend up married to people with different sexuality and end up with problems.

Well said.

You do know there are a lot of Robert Galbraiths, and she's already said it wasn't that one, who in any case has a third name.

Don't be ridiculous.

Robert Galbraith Heath, cited as RG Heath on just about every single source on him? Instead of the multitude of other famous actual Robert Galbraiths' which don't fit with a increasingly desperate attempt to smear JKR?

The ridiculous TRA arguments really have gone full circle now. What's next? Fausto Sterling's debunked red head argument? Clownfish?

Waiting in anticipation.

You are wrong. You are taking about Robert Galbraith Heath who no one had ever heard of until you TAs dug him up. You’ve all been told many times that it’s nothing to do with her pen name but you don’t do facts do you.

1. She’s already confirmed that the name came about by combining Robert Kennedy and Ella Galbraith, the name she wanted to be called as a child.
2. The person you’re referring to as you continue to clutch at straws is Robert Galbraith Heath.

Because it’s considered weird by the majority when someone has never had a relationship nor wants one.

Teenagers are incredibly focused on sex and boyfriends and girlfriends.

Adults are focused on getting married and having kids.

It’s silly to pretend dating/marriage/kids isn’t an enormous focus in society.

Woman feel pressured to have kids all the time! Of course being asexual is an issue.

Heavens what sort of world do you live in.

Especially from an author who uses the name of the man who popularised conversion therapy as her pen name.

Aaaaand there it is.

Someone's been drinking the TRA kool-aid.

From here on in, nobody needs to pay any attention to a single word you type. Sorry!