Rain
Comic 745 - Stereotype
Author Notes:
In fact, this page mostly exists because despite being asexual myself, and that Chanel is one of my personal favorite characters in the comic, I feel like I very rarely get opportunities to explore this subject. Sure, it's mostly a gag page, but I'm glad it's in there nonetheless. I think a lot of people forget that someone's romantic orientation could potentially not match their sexual orientation (like in Chanel's case, being homoromantic but not homosexual).
Leave it to me to turn my dumb jokes into an opportunity to educate about something important to me. XD
As for the punchline, I so wanted to work the dialogue around so that the last panel could read, "Dude, she's lesbi-ish." Nothing I did to lead into that felt natural though, unfortunately. And I couldn't have Chanel say it of herself; she just doesn't strike me as the kind of person who would say "dude". XD
Oh, well. I'm sure I'll get other chances to beat that dead horse. ;P
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In fairness, I'm sure certain combinations of romantic and sexual orientations are probably more rare or common than others. I don't think I've ever actually met a homoromantic heterosexual (or vice versa), but I absolutely believe it could happen.
However, I know quite a few biromantic/panromantic people who are otherwise heterosexual or homosexual. More often than not though, when I see romantic orientation being brought up, it's with asexual people (because many of us are still interested in relationships even if we have no sexual attraction, and it's the easiest way for us to address that).
I don't see how that's possible.
Language isn't always precise in use.
"I'm a woman and I consider myself as homoromantic heterosexual. When I was young, it really confused me for a while. I like girls for sure, but mostly in a romantic way. I don't want to have sex with them, although i was totally emotionally in love with them. However, I always get excited by men, more physically. Sexy men can easily turn me on. I'd love to have sex with them. But if I take further step to turn sexual attraction to emotional one with men, I always failed. Having a stable relationship with men makes me feel sort of empty, I don't know how to describe it, it's a quite strange feeling, likes there is no connection between us no matter how I try."
You're thinking attraction and the desire to have sex are the same thing. one person can have non sexual fellings towards another person regardless of gender or oreintation And have a sexual prefrence that is specific
Brother Arthur is labelled as asexual in the character pages, as SilentNight stated.
Admittedly, whenever I finish the overhaul update to the character page, I'll probably just label them both as celibate. I think I either had my own misunderstandings about the definitions when I wrote that up OR I knew what I was doing but thought making them asexual would be better somehow. Honestly, I now think it's actually a bit problematic as there is a lot of confusion (in general) that asexuality is synonymous with celibacy. So I think I'd rather separate the two so as not to unintentionally perpetuate this myth.
So yeah, oversight on my part. My bad. You can just consider them celibate, rather than ace. Again, it'll be fixed on the next update.
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"I'm sorry, I'm not really interested in dating. Lesbi-friends."
"When we finish college, Maria and I are opening a hotel purely for gay women. Lesbi-inn."
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I gather that some peops desire sexual interaction outside the context of a romantic relationship, and I'm trying to understand how that works. I don't know if I'm on the right track, but I compare it to how I feel averse to the idea of mixing sexual intimacy with some particular types of relationships, such as familial, or cross-generational, or asymmetric relationships. (such as with my therapists, for example) For me at least, the idea is not mind-boggling when so approached; I just add "romantic" to that group.
...and from there, the idea of a subset of those folks having heart-feels and pants-feels for peops of different, non-overlapping ranges of genders seems a trivial step.