#lesbiphobia

redressalert:

radicallyhaley:

are you fucking kidding me

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.

Womyn, resist.