Here are a few I’ve heard:
- “Identifying as demisexual is just a form of slut-shaming”
- “‘Demisexuality’ is just the human norm, most people don’t fuck someone they just met”
- “Asexual claims of discrimination are an insult to the Black Americans who struggled in the Civil Rights Movement”
- “Anyone who identifies as asexual is either an incel in denial or has a medical problem that needs to be cured”
I once got told not to do use singular they for a character who was literally genderless and non-corporeal
The person in question was like “editors won’t accept that” and all I could think was “motherfucker, it’s sci-fi, that is far from the most ‘out there’ thing in the genre’s published works”
I’m writing a character now who is an arch fey and a patron to the MC. I use xe/xir as pronouns. It’s kinda fun. Xe got the MC in a horribly 1 sided pact and talks in nearly unreadable legalese.