I am sick to death of being assigned membership of the "LGBTQIA++ community" (have I missed out any letters? I lose count) simply because I am a woman whose partner is also a woman.
I'm not even a member of any "lesbian community". "Community" implies a bunch of people with shared aims, beliefs, characteristics etc. Being in a same-sex relationship doesn't automatically mean that I share any other aims etc with anyone else also in a SSR. I also seem to have missed the mailshot where I got sent my "community card" offering me free lifetime membership, discounts, meetings etc etc etc. Does it exist? No? Oh, tbh I suspected not.
I am ESPECIALLY not a member of any "community" which includes men who like to call themselves lesbians (/scowly face/)
I am surely not the only person who feels like this! Can I instead be part of a community of women who are sick of being told that we are a "community" with a bunch of other people who we don't know and with whom we may not agree?
(1. I have just finished the bottle of wine that we opened at the weekend. Apologies for any wine flavour to this post.
2 My OH rarely swears (I'm the potty mouth round here) but she does say "fuffing" instead. Will this get past the censors?!)