Guest Kit-Kat Posted August 11 Share Posted August 11 Hi all! I feel like the general 2SLQBTQIA+ slogan is "Love is Love", which is great for so many people but doesn't apply to us because we don't experience love in the same way. So I was thinking we should come up with our own slogan, similar to this one. I don't want it to disregard the original (Love is Love expect when it's not), because I have many friends who are lesbian, bi, and pan, but I would love a slogan for our little community. Excited to hear your thoughts and ideas! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MasqueradeMuse Posted August 19 Share Posted August 19 How about "Love is love, romantic or platonic."? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lovebird Posted August 20 Share Posted August 20 5 hours ago, MasqueradeMuse said: How about "Love is love, romantic or platonic."? Not every aro experiences love though, platonic or not -- not saying it's a bad idea, but some loveless & aplatonic aros have said that they don't feel the phrase represents them, even it's it's 'platonisised' 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MondoBilby Posted August 20 Share Posted August 20 How about "Love is love, unless you are aromantic and/or aplatonic and/or afamilial, in which case no love is also fine" (this is a joke, don't take it seriously lol) Yeah, I really don't know how we could include everybody on the aro spec into a short slogan that also includes everyone else in the LGBT+ community. Maybe we could have our own separate slogan or something. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jot-Aro Kujo Posted August 20 Share Posted August 20 With all due respect, I think everyone here is missing the point. "Love is Love" is not a "2SLGBTQIA+" slogan; it has nothing to do with two-spirit, trans, intersex, or aspec people, and it also doesn't exist just to be cutesy. It is, by and large, a political slogan referring to (gay) marriage equality. Being from the U.S., I heard this phrase all the time in the 2000s and 2010s when we were still fighting for marriage rights, but not so much now that same-sex marriage has been federally legalized. If you want a slogan like "Love is Love", then you need to think about what you're trying to achieve with it. What is it you want? What is your group trying to collectively pressure politicians to do? And on that note- when you say "aro/ace", do you mean aces or aros, aces and aros, or specifically aroaces? Because all three groups have very different needs. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ekaterina Posted August 20 Share Posted August 20 8 hours ago, DeltaAro said: "Good without Romance" sounds ridiculous, IMHO. So what other terms work despite "good"? There can't be many. Therefore, it's really tricky... Happy without Romance? (as the most basic way) Complete without Romance? (to challenge the cliche of being "incomplete") 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Picklethewickle Posted August 20 Share Posted August 20 Not really a slogan, but my go-to phrase for being aroace is "I am already complete". 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MondoBilby Posted August 20 Share Posted August 20 10 hours ago, Jot-Aro Kujo said: With all due respect, I think everyone here is missing the point. "Love is Love" is not a "2SLGBTQIA+" slogan; it has nothing to do with two-spirit, trans, intersex, or aspec people, and it also doesn't exist just to be cutesy. It is, by and large, a political slogan referring to (gay) marriage equality. Being from the U.S., I heard this phrase all the time in the 2000s and 2010s when we were still fighting for marriage rights, but not so much now that same-sex marriage has been federally legalized. If you want a slogan like "Love is Love", then you need to think about what you're trying to achieve with it. What is it you want? What is your group trying to collectively pressure politicians to do? And on that note- when you say "aro/ace", do you mean aces or aros, aces and aros, or specifically aroaces? Because all three groups have very different needs. I never actually thought about the slogan being anything but a cute thing for LGBT folks. This makes a lot of sense, I appreciate the slogan more now So, if aros were to have their own slogan, it should probably be a protest as well. Like a protest against amatonormativity in society, in which case the last two replies above me work pretty well for that imo 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragon_Lover11 Posted September 28 Share Posted September 28 “Love is a social construct” “We don’t need love” 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost_bean Posted Friday at 05:12 PM Share Posted Friday at 05:12 PM get paid not laid :D 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zozz Posted Friday at 07:14 PM Share Posted Friday at 07:14 PM (edited) 2 hours ago, ghost_bean said: get paid not laid :D no some aroaces do get "laid" Not all of us are against sexual activies What about cupid's arrows Because cupid is romance, but were are we don't feel the romance??? 2 minutes ago, Zozz said: What about cupid's arrows Because cupid is romance, but were are we don't feel the romance??? Or cupid without arrows "love is in the air....not" "love but no homo, no hetero" /j Edited Friday at 07:16 PM by Zozz 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allhailtheglowcloud Posted Saturday at 04:14 AM Share Posted Saturday at 04:14 AM 8 hours ago, Zozz said: "love but no homo, no hetero" /j I think I've seen "no romo" somewhere before 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zozz Posted Saturday at 03:37 PM Share Posted Saturday at 03:37 PM 11 hours ago, allhailtheglowcloud said: I think I've seen "no romo" somewhere before Ooo i like that haha 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alto Posted Saturday at 07:19 PM Share Posted Saturday at 07:19 PM no romo is perfect 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
An Aro Passes Bi Posted Saturday at 08:08 PM Share Posted Saturday at 08:08 PM “What is love?” (Baby don’t hurt me!) Jokes aside, I really like Picklethewickle’s answer. Maybe something about dismantling amatonormativity? But I’m not sure how to word that sentiment in a way that’s both catchy and understandable to the average Joe (bc actually using the word “amatonormativity” will just have them scratching their heads) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragon_Lover11 Posted 17 hours ago Share Posted 17 hours ago I like allhailtheglowcloud's answer the best. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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