There is so much lesbian erasure it’s sickening. Every fucking pride flag post I see completely disregards lesbians. “UwU I made new pride flags here is one for asexual! Here’s on for pansexual! Here’s one for nonbinary!” When are y’all gonna start putting the flags up for the fucking people who STARTED THE LGBT MOVEMENT.
yes, lesbians are still relevant. “lesbian” isn’t something you just identify into, but a word to describe a woman exclusively attracted to other women. just because queerness is considered the ideal at this college does not mean everyone’s sexuality is fluid.
this is such lesbophobic garbage and i am honestly disgusted to see my school platforming this type of rhetoric.
Relevance. How is it possible that this question–whether so directly asked or just implied–has been considered “relevant” in academia since I was an undergrad in the 90s?
WHO IS BEING SERVED by this bullshit?
And how can queer academics be so naive as to think they are not responsible for helping to manufacture lesbian erasure, helping to produce the supposed “irrelevance” of being lesbian, by framing a conversation in this way?
And how much harder do they make it for any lesbian student to understand herself as a lesbian per se, when they do?
This is a clear example of lesbians being encouraged to dissociate from our female-loving-female reality…in favor of the supposedly more “relevant” letters of the alphabet soup. For how long will that agenda get to be considered “cutting edge?” This is tired. So very tired.
Understanding lesbians as a kind of “female man” or third sex is an old, tired patriarchal idea. The oldest and tiredest there is. Lesbian feminists who built a world in which there could be an “Office of LGBTA Affairs” did groundbreaking work in creating an understanding of our lesbian selves that is self-referential and female-identified. And that work was so powerful that the backlash is this intense and unrelenting, and has been for decades upon decades.
@cis lesbians who won’t date trans girls bc they’re trans What is Up With You
I mean That’s kind of the whole point of being gay yknow Having an attraction to the same sex and all
yknow trans girls are still girls and all
Did you read the sex part That same sex attraction thing there Did you catch that
yea. trans girls are female. even if you’re one of those people who think they’re not you’re going to say that lesbians can’t date people who identify as girls and don’t have vaginas?? what the fuck even are terfs honestly
They’re not. Female is the biological sex who produce ova and have XX chromosomes. Transwomen are not female.
It’s really difficult to try to explain this to someone who literally doesn’t understand that when we say “female” we do not mean “person who likes to wear dresses and do their makeup and call themselves a girl”
Lesbian sexual attraction is not a social justice issue.
The anti lesbian crap I see here makes me sick to my stomach.
It’s funny how the vast majority of attacks on single sex attraction are not directed at straight men, straight women or gay men. They’re directed at lesbians.
As if by coincidence we live in a male supremacy where men as a group exhibit, and are socialised into, massive male sexual entitlement.
It’s no surprise that lesbians, women attracted only to women (using the traditional adult female meaning) are still under attack, as always, for that attraction.
It’s not unethical to have a sex-based sexual attraction. It’s called sexuality.
Pressuring women, individually or collectively, to change or deny their sexuality and sexual boundaries is obscene.
That’s what is unethical.
This is only confusing if you centre the male born (and their sexual entitlement) and don’t understand that a) sex exists and b) there are real world ramifications of being born male or female.
Demanding sexual access to women against their wishes is about as male socialised as it gets….
blanket statements like “i’ll never engage in PIV sex” and “i will never be in a relationship with someone who has a penis” are Always blanket statements by cis lesbians and other cis women who love women against trans women. these statements are rooted in transmisogyny and the hypersexualization of trans women’s bodies, and when statements like these are made apologies need to be dealt out, not backpedaling.
Lesbianism reframed as bigotry…because women aren’t allowed to be the subject even of their own sexuality.
Being a lesbian is about female only same sex attraction.
It isn’t about men. It isn’t about transwomen. It’s about women.
It’s not hypersexualising anyone to not be attracted to them, individually or as a group. What we are talking about is the sex in sexuality.
It is not transmisogynistic to have a sexuality that is female centred.
However it is damn misogynistic to persistently reframe lesbian sexuality as bigotry, demand a rethink and apology and redefine “hypersexualising” to cover a sexuality not focussing on you (as opposed to, say, a creepy obsession with lesbians).
I will never apologise for being lesbian.
Anyone who thinks lesbians owe the male born an apology for not wanting to have sex with them is partaking in homophobia and rape culture.
This is such toxic woman-hating lesbian-erasing crap.
