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Lesbian Visibility Week 2020

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applepineapple · 20/04/2020 15:23

According the 'Diva Survey' Hmm (groundbreaking research into the lives of LGBTQI women), "86% of LGBTQI women are aware of media coverage about the transphobic attitudes of a small group of lesbians". Of course this is accompanied by a quote of "trans women are women".

There are no details on how many people were interviewed or where the research took place.

Further along the Visible Lesbian 100 page there is a lovely bit of explaining that if you define lesbian as a women who is sexually attracted to other women then you are guilty of narrow and prejudiced thinking!

Honestly, I'm not a lesbian but I'm just so pissed off at this! AngryAngry

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MedusasButterDish · 28/04/2020 07:12

Credit, grants, believers and virtue-signalling sponsors are all possibilities, @GivesNoFox

GivesNoFox · 25/04/2020 17:36

I've posed this question before but still haven't found an answer.

The Diva magazine twitter has more than 82k followers, the Lesbian visibility week one just a little over 1000 followers, neither of these two twitter handles seem to be getting much interaction or retweets on their posts on a whole. The highest comments by far seem to be on the their post about Fae and the majority of posters are calling them out on their BS.

While I consider this a good thing as it means they are not getting the attention they want my question is how do these publications make money to stay afloat when they are obviously not pulling in an audience anything close to regularly?

Godxilla · 24/04/2020 21:29

Sorry. I haven't read all the posts because I am incandescent with with fury. I am a straight WOMAN. I would not want go into a lesbian space because I respect my lesbians sisters. The audacity of men is mind blowing. For fuvkin shells sake. NB: I've kept the last sentence as it is , as even spell check was having problems with my rage( this post has been a bloody editing problem).

witchesaremysisters · 24/04/2020 20:11

This is such a low point.
They have an opportunity to highlight 100 women-loving-women.
And they pick.......... Jane Fae, previously known as John Ozimek.
I have no words to describe my contempt for this decision.

Winesalot · 24/04/2020 20:04

Agreed MedusasButterDish.

MedusasButterDish · 24/04/2020 18:29

Diva blocked me, too, even though I'm not even a lesbian! Mind you, we heterosexual women also know a thing or two about males who won't be told "no" 🙄, and I am absolutely with our lesbian sisters in solidarity on this.

Winesalot · 24/04/2020 18:21

Fae has been described as a champion of free speech. I saw someone saying that to denounce this person’s views was to deny free speech. My eye’s rolled out of my head.

Free speech... yes. But to call them a champion of it, no.

And when does supporting extreme porn, victim shaming DV victims and saying the perpetrators would not be murderers if not for women’s eggshell skulls and that females are not pulling their weight which is why males die of CV mean you are a ‘Top’ anything but misogynistic fetish promoter let alone a Top Lesbian?

And Diva is blocking Lesbians who disagree!

Ambroise · 24/04/2020 17:55

“DIVA Magazine’s astonishing attack on lesbians this Lesbian Visibility Week is supported by a number of corporations who must be held to account.”

uncommongroundmedia.com/corporations-sponsor-extreme-porn-advocate-in-attack-on-lesbians-for-lesbian-visibility-week/

SunsetBeetch · 24/04/2020 17:28

"Sexual liberty" is one way of putting it, I suppose.

"A writer covering issues including political and sexual liberty, @JaneFae is a prominent transgender campaigner and named on our #VisibleLesbian100 list this year! #LesbianVisibilityWeek #LVW20 t.co/qKNPsarG7E t.co/SnKoW1dWqa "

twitter.com/LesbianVisWeek/status/1253309152530706433?s=19

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CuriousaboutSamphire · 24/04/2020 11:33

Oh! The BalfourBeatty transwoman seems to get votes for all of these polls. There must surely be a real lesbian in some big business somewhere...

Winesalot · 24/04/2020 11:30

Lordfrontpaw That was my immediate thought so I have been rewatching Magdelen. Then I thought Arielle. But she might be a tad young for either yet. Smile When the time comes, I need to do it in a way that she ‘finds’ them herself as she will have her back up straightaway.

Lordfrontpaw · 24/04/2020 11:19

Magdeline Berns. Just point her thattaway.

Winesalot · 24/04/2020 10:46

Michelleoftheresistance

I know! It is normalizing the ideology in the next generation. And thereby creating segregation. Who benefits? Males, as you say!!

As I said, this has not been taught in any of her classes. This is word of mouth and it upsets my daughter hugely to be told that it is not correct information. She simply will not believe that her view is wrong because ‘I am old and hetero’. I am just trying to get her to think critically at the moment though.

HorseRadishFemish · 24/04/2020 10:34

Christ, have you seen their webpage? "Toxic thinking" FFS!

No more Susan Calman, then...

Lordfrontpaw · 24/04/2020 10:27

Oh its the #VisibleLesbian100 list . Sponsored by... etc etc etc. Including a large pharma company.

I haven’t dared to look to see who the other 99 are. I suspect I may be disappointed.

Michelleoftheresistance · 24/04/2020 10:25

she informed me that all her lesbian friends were about the person not the genitals (these are young teens).

Makes me so angry.

Who benefits from teaching young girls that they are mean and bad for giving into feelings of homosexuality or acting on them? That they must always swiftly justify it to themselves and everyone else as being all about 'the person' as the required virtue signal to prevent being scolded and shunned for being homosexual?

Who benefits from training young girls that it is unacceptable to be homosexual, because this means they are denying their bodies to males?

Males.

Male supremacism, male entitlement on crack and indoctrination of girls to end them being homosexual and denying their bodies to males who want them. And this brainwashing and grooming of girls is happening in fucking schools.

HorseRadishFemish · 24/04/2020 10:22

What is "the 100" please? I've tried to search but drawn a blank...

Winesalot · 24/04/2020 10:19

And It has been a successful and insidious program ...

Winesalot · 24/04/2020 10:18

Yes. There is a very good thesis there. And a very successful and insidious program to be honest.

Lordfrontpaw · 24/04/2020 10:00

‘What I have learned off the internet’ there’s a thesis on there somewhere (for psychology or sociology)

Lordfrontpaw · 24/04/2020 09:59

Oh yes witches, oh yes. But the upside is that I suspect it’s not all going to plan...

Winesalot · 24/04/2020 09:59

My eggshell skills are quite good Wink, my eggshell skull might explode though. Grin

I asked daughter about lesbians with penises this week. she informed me that all her lesbian friends were about the person not the genitals (these are young teens). I mentioned ‘pan’ and got told to stop it, Don’t I know it has changed? I asked who changed it? Them apparently... sigh.

It doesn’t seem to matter whether it is taught in school, I know she hasn’t had any lessons around this yet as I have checked. She understands biology cannot change. This is coming from discussions with her friends who learn it off the internet.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 24/04/2020 09:47

A-plus trolling then!

witchesaremysisters · 24/04/2020 09:25

You really don’t want to see who they have as the poster person for the 100 on twitter today. Your lazy little woman eggshell skills won’t be able to take it...

Oh no.......................

witchesaremysisters · 24/04/2020 09:23

And this, dear reader, is how you disappear up your own arse in pursuit of trying to make a male supremacist anti-woman agenda sound like a really nice, positive, progressive thing.

Why is it so seemingly impossible for penis-bearers, however they identify, to leave lesbians* alone?

*standard definition

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