Case High School’s No H8 GSA!

Hey, I’m posting on-time. With stuff that really doesn’t matter to you…D:

About a month or two ago, my school started a GSA (Gay-Straight Alliance). Seemingly there was this big process to it, and all these rules and whatnot (for example, a student had to suggest it, the staff could not up and make one). But that doesn’t matter. The point is, it’s here now. (Yay! >>”)

The group actually started back in the seventies apparently, when Our Glorious School (ha) was still a wee little fledgling, but no one showed up. So, the counsellors and whoever started it just let it be and forgot about it.

Until DY (privacy. O=), a senior at Case, brought up the idea to a counsellor, and here it is. So far we’ve had four bi-monthly meetings. Yay~

Over 40 people showed up this time around.

The reason I’m saying all this is because I recently came out to said counsellor about my asexuality and presented her with an article on asexuality as well as an AVEN thread on ace-related hate crimes I’ve linked in my previous post. (I’ve linked a lot of AVEN threads here, haven’t I?) I asked her to bring it up at the next meeting, which happens to be this Wednesday. I actually asked her about a month ago, but the meeting was planned out down to the minute pretty much, but eh.

At the last meeting, I was surprised that asexuality was brought up by GC, another member. He didn’t spend more than a second on it, his quote was, “…whether you’re straight, gay, bisexual, asexual….” I was amazed that a high-school student had heard of aces, and was actually using it correctly. I was even more amazed that he was stating that it was a sexual orientation.

Another member, L, then used asexual incorrectly, meaning to say ‘intersexual’.

I didn’t even notice either instance until a good(?) friend of mine pointed it out.

Well, hopefully at the next meeting asexuality will be addressed. I’m kind of nervous about how those who haven’t heard of it before or have a mistaken definition or are just ignorant will react, but the majority of the members are good people. (I just hope the rumour-spreaders decided to just not show up anymore.) So far, the friend’s I’ve told (a girl, a gay man, and a quite possibly gay man) have been supportive, as has the counsellor I told.

DON’T BE IGNORANT:
“The people around you know more than you think.”

LESSON LEARNED:
“Pay attention to those around you as well, you may find a new ally among them.”

(God, I sound so corny.)

PS: If anyone cares, I’ll edit this post to include how the meeting went.

What?!

Okay, my internet has been strange for the past two weeks or so. It’s not letting me do much but check my email really. And my school blocks WP, so I can’t use the school computers for this. So, here I am at my friend’s posting a week too late. D=

So I had this mini-debate in my World History class a week or sometime ago. It was me against three guys, who I was pretty much cool with. Here’s how it basically went:

Nick: Gay people are wrong. (forgot how we got on the subject, but it wasn’t just out of nowhere. Something about being knifed.)
Me (not entirely shocked, but taken aback) : What?
Nick (turns to Matt): Right, Matt?
Matt (after chattering on about some game): What? Oh, yeah. Yeah.
Dominique: Yeah, I agree.
[insert random-debate-gibberish]
Nick (to Greg, who pops up out of nowhere): Greg, aren’t gay people wrong?
Greg (shakes head): As long as they don’t come on to me, I don’t care. (Coming from a guy who constantly hugs and/or touches other guys. But whatever.)
Me: Explain your logic, Nick. Explain this to me.
Nick: …It…I-It’s just wrong, man. I don’t know how to explain it, it just is.
Dominique/Matt: Why don’t you explain your logic, then?
Me: I would if you wouldn’t interrupt me. (Dominique interrupted me a lot.) Alright, what’s your favourite colour, Nick?
Nick: Blue.
Me: Okay, mine’s red. Now, following your logic, I would be wrong for liking red over blue. And from my point of view, you’d be wrong for liking blue over red.
Nick: But that’s different.
Me: Not really, it’s still preference.
Matt (who isn’t even very religious, I’m 98% sure): God says it’s wrong.
Me: Well what about bisexuals?
Matt: Um…well they’re only half going to hell.
Me: And asexuals?
Dominique: Well, there’s just something wrong with them. (I nearly shot him in the face for that.)
Matt: The bible says the only marriage should be between a man and a woman.
Me: First of all, I wasn’t necessarily talking about marriage. And second, show me where the bible says, quote-unquote that it is “wrong”.
Matt: Well I don’t know exactly where, I saw it online.
Me: Not everything on the internet is true.
Matt: I also heard it in one of my classes.
Me: So first it’s online, now it’s in a class? What class is teaching you religion? (I assume he was talking about a school class)
Nick: Well if he (god) says it’s wrong, then it is.
Me: Who says god’s a guy? What if it’s a woman? Or genderless?
Jenny (this idiot who just intruded): Duuuh, god’s a guy. (I didn’t add that first “word” in there. o.o)
Me: But who says? …Y’know, I heard that the bible was originally intended to be fiction. (I’m pretty sure I did, but this was also just to throw them off)
[[Bell rings.]]

The AVEN thread I posted this on.

One of the guys I still talk to, but I hope I’ve made it clear that I don’t particularly like him at all. The other two I barely talk to, only “hi” in the hallway, if that.

But eh, people are like that. You can’t really change what others think, right? So what do you think?

DON’T BE IGNORANT:
“People are quite ignorant, once you realise this, you’ll be better off.” 

LESSON LEARNED:
“Pay less attention to your classmates and more to your class, lest you get an F on the test.”

“Shut the window, you’re lettin’ all the stank out!” OR “Hi, how you doin’?”

Please tell me whose socks those are, I love them.

ANYWAY….

So hi there, I’m Spanish John. Or just Spanish for short. I am the ONLY Spanish John out there, anyone else who CLAIMS to be me, well they’re just posers.

Well here’s a little info about me for you. Y’know, first-post business.

Name: Spanish John
Age: 15, sophomore in high-school
Area: Southeastern Wisconsin, US
And I am a polyromantic asexual.

Now you’re probably like, “pfft what the hell is that?” And that’s why I’m here. To educate you on asexuality so that, maybe, just maybe, we could feel a little safer knowing that people aren’t so ignorant about us. I mean, look at this atrocity. Asexual women are raped because the guy thinks “all they need is a good rape” and they’ll be “cured“. It’s fucking horrible. People look at you and ask you “what’s wrong with you” or “if you try sex it won’t be so bad”. But that’s just the thing: some of us have tried it. And we felt absolutely nothing. We’ll never really know what it’s like. It’s impossible. It’s exactly like telling a gay man to go fuck a woman and like it (and I mean honestly like it, not just “oh yeah, it had its moments, I guess”). It’s like telling a prep to like math. It’s just not right.

And look at this (as well as the 3~4 posts below it). Sometimes, we don’t even know who to trust.

Asexuality, under many definitions, is quite basically “the lack of a sex drive or sexual attraction”. But that doesn’t mean some of us don’t ever want to have a relationship with someone. Some still have romantic feelings for people. There are many different subcategories of asexuality, which really is a broad term. Here are a few main ones:

Aromantic – Those who don’t have any romantic feelings towards anyone
Heteroromantic – Romantic feelings towards the opposite sex
Homoromantic – Romantic feelings towards the same sex
Biromantic – Feelings for both genders
Polyromantic – Feelings for those of any gender; almost the same as biromantic, but that implies that there are only two genders

There are others, but that’s basically it.

In an asexual’s relationship, typically they could go up to everything but sex. However, it all depends on the asexual’s preference. If they’re the type to make out, they tend to make out. If they’re the type to hug and whatnot, they tend to do that. Or they can prefer no contact at all. Just talking and such is fine with them. Like a friend you’ve got a huge crush on but you haven’t (or have) told them.

Well, I think that’s all for today, I’ll see you next Monday. =]

DON’T BE IGNORANT:
“Asexuality and  asexual reproduction are two separate things.”

LESSON LEARNED:
“Aces are people too.”