"he/him lesbians" are driving me mad.

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[–]venecia 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (10 children)

Wait, really? I thought ''male lesbians'' (straight men who ''identify'' as lesbians because they don't like using their penis/fetishist the way women in porn have sex) got laughed off the face of the earth in like, early 2012-ish. Are they a thing again?

[–][deleted] 16 insightful - 2 fun16 insightful - 1 fun17 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Male "lesbians" (also known as straight men) call themselves "trans lesbians" or "transbians" and they've been increasingly targeting and harassing lesbians for not wanting to date or sleep with them. Lesbians in particular have been demonized by trans rights activists for years and people outside the lesbian community are only beginning to notice now. These males are clearly men in appearance and behavior. No matter how good their imitations of women or femininity are, lesbians are only attracted to the female sex and they hate that lesbians won't make exceptions for them. Lesbians are interested in women and women alone.

They are the reason r/TrueLesbians, a tiny sub that barely hit 15k users, got hit in the banwave. TL would regularly get brigaded for being a female-only/lesbian only sub. A factual statement like "anyone who has or had penis is not a lesbian" or "anyone who likes penis is not lesbian" was seen as hate. This is the same old tired homophobic garbage lesbians have been facing for ages, except now it's dressed up in "progressive" language.

[–]venecia 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Ain't that the goddamned truth.

[–]emptiedriver 11 insightful - 2 fun11 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

got laughed off the face of the earth in like

No one is laughed off the face of the earth anymore, you can identify any which way you want - the only thing you can't do is be aware of empirical reality, attracted by physical bodies, or comfortable with your embodied self.

Basically people are acting like they live in a video game and we all have to respect the avatar they're playing. You can pretty much constantly expand the world and create new forms but you can't be a bummer and point out that actually they're just a lazy kid on the couch...

[–]venecia 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I need to save your last paragraph, it's too perfect.

I've actually kind of low-key noticed this ''avatar'' thing, where people seem to expect the image they believe they are online and have people ''see'' them that way irl, and be super offended when it doesn't happen. Transpeople madness is right up there with incels when it comes to this.

[–]catoboros 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Trancels.

[–]catoboros 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

"Everyone is valid". Except those who acknowledge reality.

[–]zephyranthes 8 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

...This subsaidit exists because of "male lesbians". Not only they're a thing again, they rule most of the English-speaking Internet. Back on reddit, they even went after the holy of holies, straight men's lesbian porn - and won. Lesbian porn on reddit must have dicks now.

[–]venecia 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Oh yeah, I just thought they'd jump on the ''transwoman'' or ''nonbinary'' bandwagon. Not that it would again be cool to basically call themselves the term that got them laughed out, all over again, because the world has gone so insane that straight men get to claim to be lesbians now and be called stunning and brave.

[–]denverkris 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It was long before that.