A significant and integral part of acephobia is the stubborn refusal to recognize asexual people as authorities on our own lives, as knowers of our own sexuality. This is what British philosopher Miranda Fricker calls epistemic injustice, “a wrong done to someone specifically in their capacity as a knower.”8 More pointedly, it is what Fricker has termed as testimonial injustice, a type of epistemic injustice that “occurs when prejudice causes a hearer to give a deflated level of credibility to a speaker’s word.”9 Ultimately, it means that allosexuals feel entitled to attempt rebuttals against
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