The writer's higher ups were floating 'ideas' for the piece. One wanted to hook me up to something that monitors brain waves and arousal while I watched a porn video. Like WTF DUDE (and OFC it was a dude). The idea that was settled on was the writer and I watch something like 50 shades of grey while I do commentary.

<---- all my feelings regarding this

....blinks Okaaay.

I asked her (a 40 year old lesbian who sounded like she would rather DIE than ask if I'd be okay with this, bless her cotton socks), if I could do a MST3K thing, where I throw popcorn at the screen and give a dissertation on how its a crap example of a BDSM relationship and make snarky comments. I think she preferred my idea.

Good plan,

Have to float the idea at my ace outreach meetup on Sunday and I'm like... how do? I WANT to have an asexual voice in the literal sex issue of a very popular national magazine because WHAT IF someone reads about asexuality and it sets off the light bulb for them? But...yeah, I think her bosses are treating this like a monkey house

"They're so similar but so different from us! Let us do experiments to understand their peculiar ways"

She and I had a lovely conversation on how they used to (and unfortunately in some places still do) do this shit to homosexuals to try and against their 'abnormal' minds. We may have mentioned But...I'm a Cheerleader and spent time sighing over how great that movie is

I think they're going for a "but we watched a (supposedly) sexy thing with an asexual and they just composed a shopping list". Like...we can feel arousal; that's a physical reaction. It's not sexuality. Just...points to above collection of emotes

.... okay then. people, why do you suck. hugs? many hugs.

...wtf