Hello Ladies and Gentlemen, I want to Discuss Agism

Agism.
What I mean by that is prejudice towards someone based on their age.
Now I will say that those who have spent more time on the planet generally do know a bit more than I do. Which is why I listen to what people usually have to say. I also usually question it, or argue, but I do listen.
Now, that being said, that does not mean I should be discriminated against for being a teenage girl. Yes, I am fifteen. But that does not make me stupid or even ignorant in every sense.
I'm going to start with music.
Many times, I have been accused of only listening to music that has been fed to me. That I listen to all the following bands: MCR, TBS, FOB, P!atD, 30stm, AFI, A7x, FFTL, Good Charlotte, Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, HIM, The Used, Aiden, Saosin, Senses Fail, Simple Plan, Green Day, and Nirvana.
Yes, my adoration of MCR borders on obsessive. Fall Out Boy I find adorable and fun. Taking Back Sunday's latest record I like a little, Panic! not anymore, I have a copy of AFI's Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Eyes, and I do own Green Day and Nirvana records
In addition to being told what is on my Ipod, I also get told I know nothing about classic rock music or real punk rock. Okay.
Let me explain why this is a very stupid thing to say:
YOU CAN'T READ MY MIND.
Actually, what you might find interesting is that those who usually brand me as an ignorant teenyboppers are usually indie snobs who's ages range between 17-22.
Adults who are actually familiar with what I actually know and listen to and actually take me seriously when I talk about rock and roll are usually musicians, journalists, and used record store owners ranging in age between 27-65.
And this has nothing to do with my parents. In fact, my dad thinks Iggy Pop is a type of soda.
Now, I know I sound totally presumptuous thus far, so I will explain a little more about me.
I am aware that every kid my age has either a Dark Side of the Moon, Beatles, Rolling Stones, or Ramones t-shirt. However, I don't just listen to your by the books classic rock. I don't just listen to the Beatles, The Stones, Queen, The Ramones, Bob Dylan, The Sex Pistols, Pink Floyd, The Who, AC/DC, Jimi Hendrix, Blondie, Morrissey and the Smiths, Elvis Costello, The Clash, Little Richard, and Fleetwood Mac.
I know bands from way back when that not even people who were in their teenage years at that band's time have heard of. I won't go on a roll or try to brag. I am just stating the fact that my taste in music is not that which is repeatedly marketed to me by Hot Topic or Pac-Sun.
I listen to your basic classic rock, but in addition I also listen to: The MC5, Iggy Pop and The Stooges, The New York Dolls, Patti Smith, Velvet Underground, The Slits, The Talking Heads, Lou Reed, The Damned, Souixsie and the Banshees, Public Image Limited, The Dead Kennedys, Social Distortion, Sonic Youth, The Pretenders, The Pixies, The Manic Street Preachers........................ You get the idea.
I don't pretend to be some kind of rock and roll expert either. I wish I could but I can't. However, I am not an ignorant drone either. I got my old guitar teacher (who is very much aware of my My Chemical Romance obsession) into the Stooges, Patti Smith, and Sonic Youth. This old guy I once met in an airport played guitar with me and when we talked about music, he asked me for some american artists he could look into for his American music club (I was 13). I know a guy who works for my parents who once played with Clapton, and I schooled him on David Bowie records. The old hippie who runs the used record store near my aunt's house (they have the best vinyl, but I can't get it because my dad refuses to listen to vinyl ever again), he actually takes me seriously. A family friend of ours sung for Blue Oyster Cult, and she knows I know my shit. I have gotten people older than me complimenting me on my (though still limited) knowledge of rock and roll.
I don't know shit about metal, and I'm not a "punk." I still am not nearly as well informed on rock and roll as I'd like to be. However, don't tell me I'm ignorant. Don't stereotype me by my age. That has NOTHING to do with it.
I also have decently formed political views which make my dad proud. I also can tell you anything you want to know about the Renaissance, French Revolution, House of Anjou, and House of Tudor. As well as religion, I know a lot about Christianity and religious unrest through history (when I was eleven, my parents and I went to this costume wedding party and I picked out the costumes, some dude asked me if I knew who my dad was dressed as. I replied that he was Henry VIII, that I was Elizabeth I, and my Mother was Katherine Parr. He turned out to be a historian of religious history, and we ended up getting into a long discussion about Thomas More and how much Anne Boleyn contributed to the rise of Protestantism).
Now, I am a stupid kid on almost every point and I have the maturity of a six year old. But don't judge me solely on my age. Or I'll hand you your ass on a platter like I did all those other agists.