Ughhh I’m gnc and I’ve previously only been with women so people just assumed that i’m a lesbian. So since I got a boyfriend recently they’ve been talking about how I’ve “turned” and when I try to explain that I’ve always been bi they just act like I’m “too proud to admit” that I’ve “never actually liked women” what the fuck and I feel really bad for embodying a lesbophobic stereotype

tomcats-and-tophats:

😬 I think you also need new friends anon, wow

You aren’t embodying any stereotype, these people just don’t want to see a real person in the loose aggregation of tropes they use to justify their societally-supported hatred. Even bi women who actually DID think they were lesbians until they realized they were bi aren’t doing any damage to anyone else by understanding themselves.

reynbow-erso-skywalker:

So can we like…start normalizing the idea that not everyone dates or has their first boyfriend/girlfriend in junior high or high school?

There are plenty of people who go into college with little to no dating experience. There are tons of people who go into college having not had their first kiss yet. It’s not wrong; everyone experiences things at a different pace, and that’s okay. Don’t feel pressured into doing things you’re not comfortable with at the time just because you feel like you have to fill some sort of “quota.”

prokopetz:

You know, for the longest while the accepted wisdom has been that female actors’ careers tend to fizzle after their mid 20s because of fickle Hollywood beauty standards and institutional ageism hitting women much harder than it does men, but it’s increasingly apparent that picking up a reputation for “not being a team player” because you refused to fuck a sexually predacious director or co-star may be a much bigger factor in that trend.