acephobe en · NOUN
Etymology
From ace (“asexual”) + -phobe.
Meanings
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A person who has a negative perception of asexuals and/or human asexuality.
No book on how to navigate coming out as ace, or what to do after encountering an acephobe.
2023, Michele Kirichanskaya, Ace Notes: Tips and Tricks on Existing in an Allo World, page 15:It's a deep, shared denial among acephobes that creates the insistence that asexuality cannot or should not exist, and that it must therefore be "fixed" by them.
2022, Sherronda J. Brown, Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture, page 23:This is at the root of our oppression, that we are seen to be broken and then sometimes rejected by acephobes in the very community that is supposed to protect and love us, in the context of a world which feels like it doesn't always view us as fully "human."
2018 November 1, Claire Dwyer, “Asexual Awareness Week”, in The Scripps Voice, page 5:For quotations using this term, see Citations:acephobe.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| acephobes | Number=Plur | lexicographic |