LGB Erasure"EVERYBODY's sexuality is fluid. You never know if you won't meet a person that will change it for you!"

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[–]les4leshomonormative 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I know hardly any actually homosexual lesbians irl, but a bunch of bisexual and "queer" women (most of them single or het-partnered, lol.)

It's sensible statistically, but somewhat frustrating. Not because they won't bed me or whatever, I'm a lesbian not an incel, but because in the community at my school these women become the representatives for all of us, when they often don't understand what it's like to be actually homosexual but think that being ssa gives them a right to speak on it. I don't know if this is accurate at all but it feels like lesbians are the smallest demographic in the community, either because bisexuals outnumber us or because we've been largely pushed out of it

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

I don't know if this is accurate at all but it feels like lesbians are the smallest demographic in the community, either because bisexuals outnumber us or because we've been largely pushed out of it

We are one of the smallest, statistically speaking. Bi men are also pretty small, actually. Did you see this post? https://saidit.net/s/LGBDropTheT/comments/625t/i_made_charts_from_2017_glaad_survey_data_showing/

A little over half of those, in each age group, who say they are LGBT, are trans. We are actually ALL in the minority now, all LGB, even non-trans bisexuals who are one of the larger groups. Trans people are talking over all of us.

Anecdotally, I agree. I forgot, I've actually met 3 total homosexual lesbians (lol). But it 1000% feels like other people are talking for lesbians. I used to think I was bisexual, and back them I saw other "wlw" and was like "Oh, a bunch are lesbians". But I talked to one of my 3 lesbian friends about it and she was like "Really? Wow I know almost 0 lesbians" and then I asked around a little and sure enough, they were all bisexual. I wonder if a lot of bisexuals assume the same as I used to, that there are a bunch of lesbians.

[–]les4leshomonormative 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I hadn't seen that post but it does give some weight to my suspicions that the rising numbers of "lgbtq+" is not a rise in same-sex attraction so much as a rise in heterosexuals with gender identities, lmao

Bisexuals (mostly women) using "gay" as an umbrella term annoys me so much lmao, it's why i started saying homosexual more