Yeah, I can see how the optics weren't great. I suppose we could have been more clear with the fact that the topic sort of created the carnival (not exactly, but that is at least what it was like from our perspective), rather than the topic being chosen for the carnival, but I still don't think I would have wanted to delay the topic just because the carnival of aros wasn't yet in existence.
And I meant the terminology bit to be an example of my history comment. Perhaps I was rambling a bit with things that have been on my mind.
And what I was addressing about aroaces feeling unwelcome in the ace community was this:
"What little I do know about the ace community is only what I've seen talked about in aro communities. More often than not, what I've seen is frustration with the way many attempts to include aromanticism under the aspec umbrella seem to pay it little more than lip service. Aromanticism is an add-on, an also-ran, with little recognition of aro experiences as unique and different from ace ones - at least, that's what I'd heard second-hand from other aros who vent about such things in aro spaces."
I realize that I was maybe assuming you were referring to aroaces in that paragraph, mostly because in my experience the "aros who vent about such things in aro spaces" are generally people who either identify as ace or who previously identified as ace. I also realize now that you switched from "ace community" to "aspec umbrella" in the middle of that paragraph, which I missed when I read it the first time. My apologies for that.
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Re: Topic origin, community history, and aroaces with good experiences
Date: 2 Mar 2019 18:55 (UTC)And I meant the terminology bit to be an example of my history comment. Perhaps I was rambling a bit with things that have been on my mind.
And what I was addressing about aroaces feeling unwelcome in the ace community was this:
"What little I do know about the ace community is only what I've seen talked about in aro communities. More often than not, what I've seen is frustration with the way many attempts to include aromanticism under the aspec umbrella seem to pay it little more than lip service. Aromanticism is an add-on, an also-ran, with little recognition of aro experiences as unique and different from ace ones - at least, that's what I'd heard second-hand from other aros who vent about such things in aro spaces."
I realize that I was maybe assuming you were referring to aroaces in that paragraph, mostly because in my experience the "aros who vent about such things in aro spaces" are generally people who either identify as ace or who previously identified as ace. I also realize now that you switched from "ace community" to "aspec umbrella" in the middle of that paragraph, which I missed when I read it the first time. My apologies for that.