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Any lesbians feeling a tad battered and deflated?

139 replies

ImmortalityMyDarlings · 09/07/2018 10:08

Or is it just me?

Just read some plonker on Twitter saying that lesbians are just “femininity attracted to femininity”. Makes me sad and angry.

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HolidayNoWay · 09/07/2018 22:52

I find mumsnet very strange. It's like this little.portal not connected to the real world where posters have the opposite attitudes to everyone I know in real life

It's really quite starnge

UpstartCrow · 09/07/2018 22:51

We don't use 'queer' for 'lesbian' in the UK. And this isn't a support thread for women who sleep with people who have a penis; or 'heterosexual sex' as its called.

This thread is to support lesbians who are fed up of being told they have to have 'heterosexual', or PIV sex. As you are now doing.

HolidayNoWay · 09/07/2018 22:51

I'm baffled. I'm heavily involved in LGBTQ world and many of my friends are.lesbian and use the term queer

Our lesbian pub quiz group is the Queer'tys as we work in IT

Out as myself there but oh well

thebewilderness · 09/07/2018 22:50

Well there ya go! Madness that you are not believed on the interwebs!

HolidayNoWay · 09/07/2018 22:49

My very first post on this thread started with 'I'm a lesbian....' Hmm

thebewilderness · 09/07/2018 22:49

From experience I assume that any woman who calls themselves queer is not a female nor a Lesbian.

HolidayNoWay · 09/07/2018 22:48

Im a lesbian and queer is just another word for that. Ive said im queer for 15 years. I dont see how that phrase is an issue.

UpstartCrow · 09/07/2018 22:44

You said you were 'queer', and that you don't support the OP. Its right there on the page.

This isn't a debate thread.

Rufustheyawningreindeer · 09/07/2018 22:43

You had not said you were a lesbian when the poster made that comment

HolidayNoWay · 09/07/2018 22:42

I was told to start my own thread as this is a thread for lesbians.

FloralBunting · 09/07/2018 22:40

Lesbian, like 'Woman' before it, is a mysterious, almost impossible to define metaphysical term. Does someone have that screenshot of the Sarah Ditun tweet?

Rufustheyawningreindeer · 09/07/2018 22:40

Who said you werent a lesbian?

FermatsTheorem · 09/07/2018 22:40

"Locker rooms" is American for open-plan, communal changing rooms. The sort that used to be single sex, but in which you may now sometimes find (if you are a woman) willies being waved around.

Angryresister · 09/07/2018 22:39

No I feel rejuvenated and proud to be a lesbian , and proud of those lesbians stating our case at Pride. Now we need to get organised...small groups always best.

UpstartCrow · 09/07/2018 22:39

We nearly have a full house, people.

HolidayNoWay · 09/07/2018 22:38

I'm baffled to why you don't think I'm a lesbian Confused

UpstartCrow · 09/07/2018 22:38

Maybe go read about Sister Rosa Parks before misquoting what happened and dragging it into a debate about women's rights.

Writersblock2 · 09/07/2018 22:38

How does one identify as female? You feel like you have an affinity with ova?

Rufustheyawningreindeer · 09/07/2018 22:37

Lesbian doesnt mean what i thought it did...goodness knows what it neans now

FloralBunting · 09/07/2018 22:36

Locker rooms? Wtf?

FloralBunting · 09/07/2018 22:36

Oh right, we're playing TRA bingo, are we? I've forgotten my stampy pen this evening, but my card now has 'you're as bad as racists' on it. How's everyone else doing?

HolidayNoWay · 09/07/2018 22:35

How very inclusionary of you.

Rufustheyawningreindeer · 09/07/2018 22:35

Locker rooms?

HolidayNoWay · 09/07/2018 22:34

I am a lesbian. Hmm

Pretty sure my wife agrees

Rufustheyawningreindeer · 09/07/2018 22:34

just about everyone is under that umbrella

And 'identify as a female' means literally nothing