I spent a day with ROMANCE REPULSED AROMANTICS

🎙THE PODCAST

 🧨HUGE thank you to:

🗯RELATED EPISODES…

🎥Crew
▸ Creator, Director, Writer, etc. - Anthony Padilla
▸ Executive Producer - Alessandra Catanese
▸ Producer, Co-writer & Research - Elise Felber
▸ Director of Photography/Gaffer - Kathy Sue Holtorf
▸ Camera Operator - Garrett McKenna
▸ Production Assistant - Cade Huseby
▸ Assistant Editor - Patrick Horba
▸ Post PA / Assistant Editor - Ash Duckworth
▸ Sound Editor - Gareth Hird

🎵Theme Music Composer - Matt Good AKA The King of Emo

📢BE ON THE SHOW

[AnthonyPadilla]

come back next week for *I spent a day with PRO FINGERBOARDERS*

[fadliahahmad]

“Sometimes existing is exhausting”


i love that quote sm

[borderlinenocturnal]

Society needs to lose the perception that romantic love is superior to platonic love

[DOfreakNUT]

"just because i don't want to hold your hand doesn't mean i wouldn't do anything for you" is such a great quote

[BJ_Freeplay]

aromantics? Being interviewed?! Being interviewed SEPARATELY from asexuals?! Hold up I'mma go cry for a bit brb

[tanukkat]

Gentle reminder, not all aromantics think romance is repulsive / not real !! It’s just not for them. many of them do believe it exists, , but they have never felt it <3

[astrophysiciann]

aromanticism is proof that love is transcendent of romance. like madeline said, just because someone doesn’t fall in love doesn’t mean they don’t feel empathy

[chronicallydrew]

I love how passionately Madeline talks about their wife, it’s so wholesome. And when they mentioned hetero marriages having that “give it 5 years” mindset is so true and it’s honestly really disturbing for people to say

[yukis.]

Making it clear, you don't need a "suffering meter" to be a part of the lgbt+ community. Absolutely no need. That kind of mindset is literally harmful and gatekeeping which is cringe.

[scrappykoko]

I love how there's a romance repulsed aro who is married and how it shows that strong love is not necessarily romantic

[ldive]

Being asexual or aromantic is really hard in such an oversexualized world.

[AngelAllenson]

“That’s why you’re gonna die alone.” We ALL DIE ALONE. Death is a singular thing. You do not experience that with anybody else but yourself. We live and love with others but they do not come with us when we die. People who say this to those of us who are on the aro spectrum think we don’t LOVE and therefore are cold monsters and they get…angered? I don’t know. I’ve had people say that to me all the time and it used to mess me up until a close friend pointed out “we all die alone. so what are they talking about?”

[savannahlawson]

The fact that Nik's dad thought he was gay cause he didn't want to watch porn with his old man ASTOUNDS me 💀💀😂😂

[idealyst]

"Name something worse than being single"

Being in a relationship 💀

[binx]

Anthony is literally better than most professional interviewers

Dang thanks for 2.5 👏🏼

[emschlef]

I totally get what Divinity was saying about platonic heartbreak. Idk if I'm on the aro spectrum but friendships have always mattered so much more to me than romantic partners, including losing them from your life.

[ZenythGamingKitchen]

Can we talk about how GORGEOUS Divinity is? like she is soo pretty. her hair contrasts her skin and just ugh it looks so good, she is pretty

[tjmj]

I appreciate how respectful Anthony is being and isn't being pushy or disrespectful in the slightest. Keep it up Anthony!

[sophisticated]

Anthony is probably one of the most respectful interviewers I have ever seen

[LoverScratch]

(TW: MENTION OF CSA AND PTSD)

In relation to 2:06, I have been working with my therapist on processing CSA trauma and subsequent C-PTSD. I was talking with her recently about how I’m not sure if I’m not attracted to men because of the trauma I’ve associated with them, or if I’m just a lesbian.

You know what she told me?

It doesn’t matter. If it is trauma based, that lack of attraction will ease off as we process the trauma… or it might not. Attraction and gender are so complex, that it kinda doesn’t matter how that side of your identity manifests. Your identify is valid either way. And that, ladies and germs, blew my mind.

So anyways, be more like my therapist. Stop treating LGBTQI+ people as problems that needs to be fixed. We are happy the way we are <3