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I'm very disappointed in poem_for_your_sprog for almost understanding this point, and then immediately making the same mistake she was calling out

'I have to sort my books!' she cried,
With self-indulgent glee;
With senseless, ~~narcissistic~~ pride:
'I'm just so OCD!'
'How random, guys!' I smiled and said,
Then left without a peep -
And washed my hands until they bled,
And cried myself to sleep.

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[–] Best_Jeanist@discuss.online 0 points 5 days ago

So you don't think a goddess agreeing to punish a guy for not wanting any fucc is aphobic?

Here's some more context: Narcissus was the son of Liriope, a nymph. Nymphs do not typically have any sexual interest. Liriope only got pregnant because she was raped by Cephisus. Narcissus inherited his mother's beauty, and it seems clear from his actions, her asexuality.

Many a youth, and many a damsel, courted him; but there was so stubborn a pride in his youthful beauty, that no youths, no damsels made any impression on him.

And here we have Ovid attributing asexual behaviour to pride, and not to just being ace.