When people demand academic articles as evidence that demisexuality exists, what they are expressing is that they have more confidence in academics’ ability to understand it than in demisexuals’ ability to understand themselves. They think that academics are the only people who can validly invent sexual orientation labels. And when they make those arguments, they show their real elitism: an intellectual commitment to the wrong idea that academics know more about personal experiences than the people who are having the experiences.

- metapianycist