today I am the angriest bisexual
Dear World:
BISEXUALS EXIST. NO REALLY GUYS I PROMISE, IT'S NOT A TRICK.
I fucking hate my society for making me feel like my sexuality is odd. It's not odd. And yet every time I turn on a television, read a book or comic book, or watch a movie, I'm odd. Any evidence of bisexuality is portrayed as either a homosexual trying to fake the "proper" orientation or a heterosexual who's merely misguided because oh, they're so troubled. "Oh no, Daddy did the bad touch! I must immediately go make out with a nonthreatening female because all men are EVIL and want to RAPE me! D:"
I have yet to feel any pressing need to hide my proclivities, and I'm pretty sure I've met men who don't want to rape me. I mean, I could just be crazy, but it seems they exist! I've dated and crushed on and perved after men, women, and all the many in-betweens, and I've never felt like that makes me the weird kid.
Pop culture imposing the heteronormative gender identity on me and mine is pissing me off. Today I realized that I have actually edited myself out of stories--because somewhere in my head there is this voice that pop culture put there saying "no no no, you can't have bisexuals just there to BE there! that's weird! people will think they're weird!"
They're not. I'm not.
And I'm going to fucking flay and murder that little voice if it is the last thing I ever do as a writer.
BISEXUALS EXIST. NO REALLY GUYS I PROMISE, IT'S NOT A TRICK.
I fucking hate my society for making me feel like my sexuality is odd. It's not odd. And yet every time I turn on a television, read a book or comic book, or watch a movie, I'm odd. Any evidence of bisexuality is portrayed as either a homosexual trying to fake the "proper" orientation or a heterosexual who's merely misguided because oh, they're so troubled. "Oh no, Daddy did the bad touch! I must immediately go make out with a nonthreatening female because all men are EVIL and want to RAPE me! D:"
I have yet to feel any pressing need to hide my proclivities, and I'm pretty sure I've met men who don't want to rape me. I mean, I could just be crazy, but it seems they exist! I've dated and crushed on and perved after men, women, and all the many in-betweens, and I've never felt like that makes me the weird kid.
Pop culture imposing the heteronormative gender identity on me and mine is pissing me off. Today I realized that I have actually edited myself out of stories--because somewhere in my head there is this voice that pop culture put there saying "no no no, you can't have bisexuals just there to BE there! that's weird! people will think they're weird!"
They're not. I'm not.
And I'm going to fucking flay and murder that little voice if it is the last thing I ever do as a writer.