Unlikely
King’s College London has a page for Yasmin Benoit, but doesn’t really explain what her research will be or why KCL thought she would be a good visiting researcher.
Yasmin Benoit is a British model, multi-award-winning asexual activist, writer, speaker, media consultant and researcher.
What’s an asexual activist? How do you activist a negative? How do you activist being asexual?
Starting her career as a model and advocate for diversity in the fashion industry, Yasmin was described as the “unlikely face of asexuality” by Cosmopolitan Magazine after publicly coming out as asexual in 2017. She started the #ThisIsWhatAsexualLooksLike movement for diverse representation and visibility, co-founded International Asexuality Day (April 6), and is a board member of the Asexual Visibility and Education Network.
This is all…nothing. It’s just stuff you can do by typing for a few minutes. It doesn’t mean anything. How can an academic institution be this gullible?
In 2022, she launched Stonewall x Yasmin Benoit Ace Project – the UK’s first asexual rights initiative with Stonewall – and won ‘Campaigner/Influencer of the Year’ at the Rainbow Honours. The following year, they released the ‘Ace in the UK’ report into asexual experiences and discrimination, which is being used to inform workplace, healthcare and public policy. Yasmin was the first asexual person to open NYC Pride and to lead Pride in London in 2023 and 2024 respectively. She has also taken her activism to Serbia, Romania, Poland, Lithuania, Germany, Belgium and the Czech Republic.
Taken her activism there and done what with it?
I need to see proof that asexuals suffer discrimination. I realize they have friends trying to set them up, but that isn’t discrimination. I had the same thing when I was single, and I am not (openly or otherwise) asexual, and if I was, I wouldn’t see any reason to go around making an issue of it.
If you make an issue of something most people are not aware of, and would rather not know, you won’t suffer discrimination. There. Solved.
Well you don’t have to be “asexual” to suffer sexual harrassment. I don’t see what the difference is.
She’s not being discriminated against/harrassed because she’s a sexually attractive female, she’s being discriminated against because she’s “asexual.” We’ll just have to take her word on that. Or not.
Yasmin Benoit, was she the woman “fighting discrimination against asexuals” by posting sexy pictures of herself in lingerie?
Arcadia, I think so–the ‘this is what an asexual looks like’ line was linked to that, I think.
Also, as I’ve noted before, asexuals are absolutely not targeted by bigots the way actual oppressed groups are; the various annoyances arising from dealing with people who don’t ‘get it’ are microaggressions without a backing macroaggression to justify needing activism. Miss Manners would’ve been a better advocate for asexuals than this twit.
I guess the idea is something like that of an atheist activist, as those to are activists for the absence of something. In that sense they appear to be similar.
But an atheist activist – or perhaps secular activist would be better wording – actually does a task that needs doing: promoting to legislators the idea that some people are not religious and government therefore should not put religion and religious people in a favoured position. What is the asexual analogue to that? Some people are do not experience sexual attraction – so far so good, but it is about to fall apart – and government therefore should not put sexual attraction and people who experience it in a favoured position.
What favoured position do governments bestow upon people who experience sexual feelings compared to those that don’t?? As far as I can tell, the activism is all about removing the generally held idea that people are universally sexual beings. Which… is not a universally held idea that I know of, and yet is pretty accurate as a generalisation.
Basically, this person has found a fantastically easy grift.