- monosexual privilege doesn’t exist
- allosexual privilege doesn’t exist
- binary privilege doesn’t exist
- fight me
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no offense but when straight people tell me “i’m proud of my sexuality” i groan. of course you’re proud of your sexuality, you didn’t grow up being constantly told your sexuality was disgusting and shameful. you didn’t grow up thinking your sexuality didn’t exist. you didn’t grow up wondering if your family would still want you if you told them you had a crush on someone with the same gender as you. since you were a child people told you your sexuality was normal, and beautiful. you got to grow up seeing people with the same sexuality as you. you knew since day one your sexuality was normal. no fucking shit you’re proud of your sexuality.
some of you have no idea how to recognise homophobia and by extension no clue when to prioritise addressing it. which is how we end up faced with bigots shouting “gays should die” and our supposed community hitting back with “does that mean asexuals are immortal”
i imagine this is because many teenagers inhabit online communities near exclusively and that means.. tumblr or adjacent spaces. there is a divorce from the lived and material homophobia that comes from living openly in, like, nowhere texas for example. there is a divorce mentally from this meaning anything or truly being a threat
humour is great as a coping mechanism, yes. but what are you coping with when the violence isn’t against you? what do you get from, when witnessing someone speak homophobic rhetoric, mentioning they didn’t include [x] group? is that the ideal moment? why would you rather be namedropped than defend a lesbian?
witnessing another group of people experience violence shouldn’t make you feel left out.
the posts that demonize gay people for being comfortable enough to be sexual in lgbt spaces and bars are so particularly evil because historically gay people have been arrested in gay bars during police raids for lewd conduct for even having their hand on their partners knee. like genuinely go fuck yourselves if you’re going to criticize gay people for being “too sexual” when even the slightest affection has always been policed figuratively and literally and been a cause of violence against us.

tallulah bankhead was an american actress who often introduced herself at parties by saying "hello, i’m a lesbian. what do you do?“ photographer unknown, 1925
If you all go 2 weeks without discourse the whole class gets an ice cream social and a pizza party





