• driving_crooner
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    2 days ago

    My sister in law was complaining about friend of her son that is ace, saying that nobody was ace until now. And I had to remind her that priests and nuns have existed for hundreds of years, in the past she would be forced to an unhappy marriage or to become a nun.

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      Priests and nuns arent ace… well i mean im sure some were, but dont lump them all in. Asexuality != celibacy.

    • Nat (she/they)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      I wanna say “Nobody was white until [I need to research when]”, I’m sure that would go over well 😂. IIRC “whiteness” and “race” in general are only a few hundred years old.