Acephobe

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A person who has a negative perception of asexuals and/or human asexuality.

    "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.""

Example

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"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.""

Etymology

From ace (“asexual”) + -phobe.

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