everyone who is replying to this post by tagging their lesbian friends who use they/them pronouns will be blessed with money and luck, everyone who is replying to this post by bitching about “how can lesbians possibly use they/them pronouns” will lose 10 years of their life
what is this?????? what??????????????????????????????????? Like I could go into how sexuality has been viewed radically differently throughout history and lesbianism (and any of our modern sexualities) can not be applicable throughout the entirety of it. Calling famous “lesbian” poets/writers like Sappho pansexual would actually likely be closer to their true orientation then calling them lesbian (there is evidence that Sappho preferred women but also was interested in men) but it is still not really applicable because of how different past cultures are to ours. Neither of those abbreviations are right but saying that bisexuals/pan/queer/ect. don’t have the right to use one of them bc its “appropriating lesbian culture” is straight up biphobic/panphobic and ridiculous as hell.
honestly that post is so biphobic like the wlw community is meant for all women who love women????? it does not matter their orientation as long as they love women.
women who love women don’t appropriate lesbian culture (unless it’s certain words like butch, femme, d*ke etc just because they carry a kind of significance in the lesbian community) and honestly dividing people within the sapphic community by defining them by their relationship to men is a) biphobic/panphobic b) really misogynist??? like way to define women based on their interactions with men and c) just bad for the wlw community in general
intracommunity drama and separation is just bad in general and trying to divide wlw is so counterintuitive like what are you accomplishing here
I KNOW ITS TERRIBLE. Honestly tho some of the worst bi/panphobia I’ve gotten is from lesbians and I have no idea why? Like I wish we as a community could just NOT.
yeah most of them are also terfs/twefs who hold up gold star mentality which is unfortunate because it puts such a bad face on the lesbian community which SUCKS
lesbians who behave this way towards other wlw just? confuse the hell out of me tbh… you’d think we’d all be able to sympathize with each other and be supportive but somehow it turns into a superiority contest
yeah it’s a huge intracommunity issue (with problems coming from both sides) that’s been going on for a long time that needs to be addressed and it’s really disheartening to see it continue happening. I’ve been lucky enough to follow wlw blogs that are directed towards positivity instead of picking sides so it’s always such a shock to see shit like this going down
you wake up in the am, you turn on your tv, BOOM, straight people. you turn on your radio? BOOM, song about straight people. you play a video game? straight people. read a book? straight people. y’all are represented fucking everywhere
Fun fact: Though being gay in the 40s sucked, being gay in the military was easier, and pretty common. There were apparently, at one point in time time so many lesbians in the military that when they tried to crack down on it, the girls wrote back and said “Look I can give you the names, but you’ll lose some of your best officers, and half your nurses and secretaries.” And they pretty much shut up about it unless you were especially bad at subtlety. (Source: Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers. A good source for gay history from 1900s onwards.)
Sergeant Phelps worked for General Eisenhower. Four decades after Eisenhower had defeated the Axis powers, Phelps recalled an extraordinary event. One day the general told her, “I’m giving you an order to ferret those lesbians out.’ We’re going to get rid of them.”
“I looked at him and then I looked at his secretary. who was standing next to me, and I said, ‘Well, sir, if the general pleases, sir, I’ll be happy to do this investigation for you. But you have to know that the first name on the list will be mine.’
"And he kind of was taken aback a bit. And then this woman standing next to me said, ‘Sir, if the general pleases, you must be aware that Sergeant Phelps’s name may be second, but mine will be first.’
"Then I looked at him, and I said, ‘Sir, you’re right. They’re lesbians in the WAC battalion. And if the general is prepared to replace all the file clerks, all the section commanders, all of the drivers—every woman in the WAC detachment—and there were about nine hundred and eighty something of us—then I’ll be happy to make the list. But I think the general should be aware that among those women are the most highly decorated women in the war. There have been no cases of illegal pregnancies. There have been no cases of AWOL. There have been no cases of misconduct. And as a matter of fact, every six months since we’ve been here, sir, the general has awarded us a commendation for meritorious service.’
"And he said, ‘Forget the order.’
- The Gay Metropolis: The Landmark History of Gay Life in America
Anonymous: heya just saw the post about ocs and pride flags and now i must ask to see velvy in a fashonnable mix of flag an casual
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#[40S COMMERCIAL ANNOUNCER VOICE] WHAT’S BETTER THAN THIS? GALS BEING PALS
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