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Aphobia

Similar to the comment above, aphobia does not only affect asexuals, but also (and, sometimes, more) aromantics, and other aspecs (and orientations under those umbrellas). Discrimination against only asexuals is called acephobia or acemisia. https://medium.com/the-science-scholar/opinion-amatonormativity-the-damaging-pedestal-of-romantic-love-d70cc0585b0f ("aphobia (discrimination against aromantic and asexual people)")

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Compulsory Sexuality and Amatonormativity in Higher Education: A Photovoice Study with Asexual and Aromantic Students, Stucki 2018 "aphobia (aversion to asexual and aromantic people as a social group or as individuals, similar concept to homophobia)"

https://www.asexuality-handbook.com/glossary (aphobia (also called a-phobia): n. Hatred or discrimination directed towards a-spectrum people on account of their placement on said spectrum. Acephobia and arophobia are kinds of aphobia.) Aromantic Frogge (talk) 14:41, 23 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I agree, the question is - should this whole article be moved into Aphobia and cover both Acephobia as well as Arophobia or should Aphobia become a disambiguation page and a separate page be created for Arophobia. I feel that given that many of the issues around aphobia are shared between asexual and aromantic people, maybe renaming this page into Discrimination against a-spec (Asexual & Aromantic) people might be the most appropriate course of action. Raladic (talk) 22:14, 24 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I separated them out now into a new page Discrimination against aspec (aromantic or asexual) people and added an explainer on this page linking to aphobia as is not only directed against asexual, but against all aspec people, aromantic and asexual people alike. Raladic (talk) 21:43, 26 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Follow-follow up after discussion with @Alalch E. on the now deleted page I had briefly created, so that the context is persisted here (since that talk page went with the deletion) - We made Aphobia a Disambiguation page linking to here for Acephobia and to Aromanticism for Arophobia.

And added reference to the disambiguation page to the top of this article using the For template. Raladic (talk) 05:09, 27 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hey @Alalch E. and @Niceguyedc - I saw you just edited the hatnotes again and removed the disambiguation that clarifies that Aphobia is not exclusive to Asexual people.

This is an important disambiguation as Aromantic people are experiencing regular erasure such as this by some of the asexual community trying to appropriate the term aphobia as synonym for acephobia, when it is not, but covers discrimination and erasure of aspec (aromantic and asexual) people alike.

Ideally, we'd really have a full article that is neutral-centered to explain Aphobia and the shared discrimination (and predominantly erasure) that happens to aspec people at large, or for now at least, please keep it clear with the disambiguation term as a start to help until we have such a complete Aphobia article. Raladic (talk) 18:06, 31 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I understand what you are saying. But how about this: Special:Diff/1147576398? —Alalch E. 21:21, 31 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, the new hat note is good now. Raladic (talk) 03:34, 1 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Should this talk page really be under the category "Disability"?

I'm not sure why this is in the categories "C-Class Disability articles" and "WikiProject Disability articles" to begin with. I don't want to just assume it's a troll trying to call asexuality a disability, but I don't see why else it would be under. Anyone against changing this? Also, first edit, forgive me if I've messed up talk formatting. Roebro (talk) 05:06, 14 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'm also not sure why it was there so I've removed it. Thanks for the suggestion. ―Panamitsu (talk) 06:26, 14 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]