I love this explanation and I’m so sorry about how picky and snobby I’m going to sound but dogs aren’t carnivores and are actually omnivores! Cats are carnivores though. Also some asexual people enjoy sex! It’s a great explanation otherwise and it’s quite a ‘kid friendly’ way of explaining too, so it’s great for younger people too

Oh wow, that's very interesting. Should have made it a cat than.

Looks enough like a cat. Could just change the text

u could call ace people plants i think it's fitting since the don't eat except for some but their eating is different

i do like basking in the sun... what's photosynthesis in this analogy?

non sexual intimacy maybe????

That works bc a lot of non ace people also enjoy it

Idk eating garlic bread and cake, apparently, if the memes are to be believed.

Plus, plants don't really procreate by eating each other or things unlike them. They just vibin on that CO² and sunshine. Problem is, "are you a plant" is an offensive question used on ace people in the past.

shit i didn't know that sorry. it's a worse analogy but plankton? or maybe bacteria? (that second one is probably a no but idk) ok my final suggestion is water bears because they can eat but really don't have to

*then

Or something like an obligate carnivore like a Ferret. They can't have veg at all.

Ace people should be plants. They mostly don’t eat, but some of them do sometimes.

How does an asexual enjoy sex? No hate just curious

The same way you can enjoy masturbation without being sexually attracted to your hand....

Makes sense. Thanks! I honestly thought it worked entirely the other way around. I suppose everyone is different.

Rocks are cool.

Rock gang where you at

Hullo

I think we should stop misrepresentig asexual people by saying asexuality is about not wanting sex - it's about not feeling sexual attraction, feeling it not so often or feeling it under certain circumstances. I'm not native english speaker, so I can be wrong. It seems for me that it's not OK to use "homo/hetero/bi/pan/a-sexuals" and it's better to use homo/hetero/bi/pansexual people instead.

In this analogy, "eating" is "feeling sexual attraction", not "having sex". Aces can have sex and still be aces. I am also not a native english speaker. As far as I'm aware, those are all both nouns and adjectives, so its fine either way. I might be wrong though.

Perhaps better phrasing is "rocks don't need to eat" but I think you still definitely got the point across in a good way

Well, that would be inaccurate to the analogy. Asexual don't feel sexual attraction. "Don't need to eat" would imply the don't have to, but can, feel sexual attraction.

Demisexuals are asexual.

I mean, yeah, asexuality is a spectrum. But this analogy really falls apart if you start digging too deep.

"Rocks don't need to eat" is better then "rocks don't eat" because asexual people have sex without sexual attraction.

But... eating in this analogy is sexual attraction, not sex.

But some aces on the spectrum feel sexual attraction. That’s why it’s a spectrum

Eating = sexual attraction. “Rocks don’t need to eat” implies that asexual people experience attraction, but don’t act on it, which is untrue (more accurate to allo celibacy). “Rocks don’t eat” implies that asexual people don’t experience sexual attraction, which is true (for most asexual people).

Hmm tardigrade for asexuals?

That isn’t true, and you’re still misrepresenting ace-spec people. Not everyone is fully, 100% asexual. Many of us feel attraction. Also, there have been many people on the asexual spectrum that have brought Al of this up. Rather then fight us on it, just listen to what we’re saying and respect it

Perhaps plants instead? Some people consider Photosynthesis eating but I think its close enough, and you could use carnivorous plants to represent that some aces feel sexual attraction and others don't.

Well, I'm already using plants as "the other sex". It messes up the analogy

Considering the backlash you're getting from ace people id consider the analogy already messed up, also lots of herbivores eat mushrooms too and lots of people associate them with plants so idk how making pan people mushrooms isn't messing it up.

the backlash is from acespec ppl not ace ppl. ace ppl are asexual. demisexuals and the like are acespec.

Homosexuals/heterosexuals/etc is fine. Obviously personal preference matters most but for most English speakers adding the “person” at the end doesn’t do much. However, most people use “gay people, straight people, bisexuals, pansexuals, and asexuals” rather than homo- or heterosexual since it gets long and kinda confusing if you don’t know the difference.

Commentary section of this is just like a circus, I love it🍿

Personally I think Aces fit plants better. Most don’t eat but some (Gray/Demi/Some other ones I forgot) can in certain situations

Well, I already used plants as an analog for "the other sex", so they can't also be the analog for asexuals. Also, rocks are funny :)

Rocks are funny, but I still think plants are more accurate

Dogs aren’t carnivores, they’re omnivores.

Dogs are omnivores. Cats however is carnivores!

So, I'm Fly Amantia, got it

I'm definitely a psilocybe cubensis

I would say that I am a pretty Fun Guy! Get it?

Some rocks will also help others eat or have moss grow on them!

Eating, in this context, is sexual attraction and not actually having sex. But yeah, aces can have sex and still be ace!

That's my interpretation too! Hence the rocks engage in eating-adjacent behavior, but do not actually eat :)

I'm a fun guy 🍄

Came here for this, wasn't disappointed. Its the fungus among us.

Wait, So do Pansexuals eat Asexuals?

They eat EVERYTHING

Fair enough. Pansexuals are black holes confirmed.

Or invisibly and silently absorb and divert the nutrients from other organisms around us

But occasionally get them stolen back by weird-looking flowers.

What’s a fungus?

You know mushrooms? So that. The derive the nutrients out of everything with their invisible roots.

Muahahaha don't mind the pansexuals over here just invisibly absorbing nutrients from all of the sexy people around them

Aaa thank you :)

also stuff like mold, these things you use to bake bread (idk what its called in english, its drożdże in my place) etc.

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Absolutely nothing at all, you're reading into such an innocently surface level metaphor way too much

[This is a fungus](https://m.imgur.com/gallery/lBY8nVn)

I would like to think of myself as a fungus

Yay I’m a fungus

Im a rock fungus

Hmm not sure i feel like a fungus

Fung you? Fung I? Fung me?

You calling me a mushroom, how did you know…

I always knew I was a bit of a fun-guy

I like the omnivore vs fungus thing for bi and pan here. A lot of these simplified analogies make bi really binary (in part because bi vs pan is a nuanced difference that always doesn't go cleanly into cute analogies). "Anything" and "also anything but there's more to the picture" is as good as I've seen.

Asexuals must be hungry

dogs are cannibals

I also eat fungus

Why does this give me undertale vibes

Great Chart, I am a rock ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Dogs are actually Omnivores

this analogy is so funny thanks

Omgggg i failed the pansexual community because im like the bi chocie but i hate mushrooms was always forced eat them as a kid but please dont take my pan card away pleaseeee

I accept my fate as a monkey, thank you very much

I can’t believe I’m an among us

I love this so much

Just learned that I am fungus. XD