[Image description: White text on a black and gray background, reads “I think that trigger warnings are ridiculous.”  Ridiculous has been crossed out and replaced with, “An important part of keeping the internet accessible.”  Small text in the bottom left corner reads, “no1curr-opinions.tumblr.com”  End description.]

[Image description:  White text on a pinkish-red background, reads, “I think being obese is okay.  People say they aren’t unhealthy and they know their health better than me.”  Smaller black text at the bottom says, “no1curr-opinions.tumblr.com”.  End description.]

Original.

[Image description: White text on a blue background, reads “I believe everyone is bisexual.”  Everyone is yellow and italicized.  Bisexual has been crossed out and replaced with, “Whatever sexuality they say they are.”  Small, white text at the bottom says, “no1curr-opinions.tumblr.com”  End description.]

[Image description: White text on a black background, reads “Dear 14-year-old girls, You are not bisexual.  Stop making a mockery of what the word actually means.  You word is ‘bicurious.’ Start using it.”  Parts have been crossed out in red and it has been edited to read: “Dear 14-year-old girls, You are whatever you think you are.  Stop assuming you know other people’s sexual orientations better than they do.  Your word is whatever you want it to be.  Start using it, or not, it’s up to you.”  In addition, the following text has been added to the left in red: “Funny how people never imply that a straight kid might not have enough sexual experience to know if s/he is truly attracted to just the opposite sex.”  At the bottom it reads in yellow italicized text: “NO1CURR about your biphobic & ageist bullshit.”  End description.]

I am bisexual and I had had crushes on both boys and girls by the time I was 14.  I considered that I might be bi, but didn’t really understand it until college, partly because of the sort of nonsense expressed in this image.  Most of my other gay, lesbian and bisexual friends had at least some inkling, even if they weren’t able to piece it together yet, by the time they started high school, because they had had same-sex crushes by then.  I don’t understand why people think LGBA kids mature at a slower rate than heterosexual kids.

By the way, the  bit on the left is not to imply that straight kids’ labels as such should not be taken seriously.  I just find it quite telling that people who claim to be concerned about teens “applying labels too soon” never care when that label is “straight.”  And this is despite the fact that there are probably more LGBAs who identify as “straight” at 14 (like me) than straight people identifying as gay/lesbian/bisexual/asexual at that age, since in most high schools it’s not that easy to be a queer teenager.  

[Image description: White text on a navy blue background reads “Fat people creeps me out.”  Both “fat” and the s in “creeps” have been crossed out and replaced with other text in red, so it now reads “Mean people creep me out.”  At the end in red, this has also been added: “no1 currs about your sizeism, srsly” End description.]