oh, yes please bisexuality help!

Yup. I kind of love it. It’s smart, snarky, and a fun read. I like that it doesn’t take itself too seriously.

Ugh I am so sorry that happened to you! What an absolutely vile comment. Of course no amount of trolling homophobes would have justified that reaction even if you had done it but unfortunately I think a lot of the time our mere existence really is enough to set these kind of people off. The point you raise about the treatment of different kinds of…[Read more]

I feel like I’m not going to appear nearly as eloquent or wordy as Lucy, but anyway:

Basically every day some asshat at my school yells at me, “You look like Justin Bieber!” Of course, I respond positively. I’ve had my pictures submitted to that tumblr. I just hate that they say this in a derogative manner.

It’s virtually never a good idea to compare whether one form of oppression is worse than another, especially because–newsalert–they’re often related. The same cultural mores and stereotypes underlie homophobia, transphobia, sexism, etc., and they can all lead to hatred.

One observation I’ve made is that gender policing in Western culture does…[Read more]

How did you catch a bat??