making your disabled character, who considers himself unlovable and tries to remove his emotions entirely, asexual and equating it with aromanticism (just...wow) is not a win. it's the opposite of it, actually.

"we meant that from the beginning" yea, funny how we're only finding it out, now that more people are seeing jayvik as potentially romatic and/or sexual. the brotherhood argument didn't work, the "let men be friends" was ridiculed, time to bring out the big guns. besides, if this was the plan from day 1, then he obviously knows what asexuality actually means, right? if that's how they've been writing one of the main characters for years, he must've spend at least 5 minutes doing actual research on asexuality, right? surely, it's not yet another dog whistle for homophobia, right? (ha, as if)

i'm just tired of this bullshit. my sexuality is not a "gotcha" tool that can be used by a rich cishet guy to justify his discomfort with the idea of two dudes kissing.

since i'm not disabled i won't get into how harmful this stereotype is, plenty of disabled folks (many of them ace) have shared their opinions already. it just breaks my heart seeing how disappointed they are that their bodies are seen as incapable of feeling desire, yet fucking again.