Kelly Fitzpatrick’s Reviews > Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex > Status Update
Kelly Fitzpatrick
is 32% done
The truth of the gender inequality in sexual freedom, and the importance of teaching women to honor their sexual desires, has distorted into the belief that female sexual liberation only looks like one thing–and that’s the opposite of what women’s lives looked like before. Overcorrection doesn’t solve the problem. It only redistributes the shame and the stigma.
— Jul 20, 2023 01:57PM
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Kelly Fitzpatrick
is 74% done
On the surface, it shouldn’t have been a big deal: he said yes, I said yes, therefore everything was consensual. The problem is, had I known about asexuality, I would have said no. It felt like a wrong had occurred, even though there was no one to blame. And that is hermeneutical injustice.
— Jul 20, 2023 06:45PM
Kelly Fitzpatrick
is 56% done
Stopping at Part 3 Chapter 7 for dinner before coming back for work. A little over half way done and enjoying this. Really good read so far about intersectionality and asexuality for disability, race, compulsary sexual culture, etc.
— Jul 20, 2023 03:50PM
Kelly Fitzpatrick
is 26% done
If aces make a big deal out of being ace and demand to be recognized, if we have created groups of our own, it is because we want a place away from sexual pressure. If we fight for visibility and change, it is because we want that pressure to be lifted for others too.
— Jul 20, 2023 01:33PM
Kelly Fitzpatrick
is 25% done
If there we no compulsory sexuality, aces would not need a community for support. It would not be so meaningful for aces to find each other and realize that we're ok. Any visibility we have is, in some ways, a reminder that compulsory sexuality exists and that it affects more than us, that it can punish anyone seems to deviate from the expected.
— Jul 20, 2023 01:33PM
Kelly Fitzpatrick
is starting
Need to return to my shit and feel less like an alien orbiting around humans. Thankful I have some ace stuff to listen to while I work.
— Jul 19, 2023 02:30PM
