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When I meet a bisexual teenage boy, for instance, I sometimes think to myself, “Yeah, I was too at your age.” That doesn’t mean the kid standing in front of me couldn’t possibly be bisexual (I wasn’t, he might be!), or that I don’t believe bisexuality exists (bisexuals exist, and most of them seem to have my e-mail address), only that my life experience makes it difficult for me to accept a bisexual teenage boy’s professed sexual identity at face value.
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Bisexuals by Dan Savage - Seattle Pullout - The Queer Issue: You’re Doing It Wrong - The Stranger, Seattle’s Only Newspaper

*facepalm* If I were a lesbian, or a gay man, I’d hate it if a straight person told me that “their life experience makes it difficult for them to accept my gay teenage sexual ID at face value.”

MY IDENTITY IS NOT ONE THEY HAVE TO “ACCEPT,” they just need to shut the fuck up and not INVALIDATE IT because, even if they don’t agree with it, that at least shows me they have the decency to respect how I identify.

Also, THIS IS AGEIST. Yes, maybe someone IDs as bi for a while and then IDs in another way, but that is not YOUR problem and you shouldn’t give a shit, AND FURTHERMORE, it doesn’t mean that they weren’t bisexual when they were identifying as such.

(via subtlecluster)

It’s ageism intersectionality reblog day on One Woman Math Squad, I guess?  Math is great; badass youth with video cameras are great; rampant oppression of young people that especially targets young people who are marginalized in other ways is NOT GREAT.

(via subtlecluster)

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