Very true, unfortunately, which is probably why it always surprises me whenever I see it happen. D:

I suspect I equate it with minority rights on my part partly because of the circles I hang in and partly because they've always been the main people pointing out to me what's not right about certain things. I actually realized I was asexual after a fannish friend pointed out a webcomic to me with an asexual-identified character in it. Of course, just because I equate fandom with such doesn't make it necessarily so.