Colonization"My boyfriend was nasty to me so I became a lesbian and now I've found a wonderful new boyfriend!" Straight women share their experiences of being lesbians (at 45 minutes in for that particular gem)

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[–]Shadow_Lurker 16 insightful - 1 fun16 insightful - 0 fun17 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

It's also interesting to add that first wave feminism wasn't very keen on accepting lesbians, as it was at it's roots a very conservative movement.

It was only with the advent of second wave feminism, specifically radical feminism, that lesbianism became entrenched into the movement as a whole.

The problem? The focus of lesbianism was shift from woman that love woman to woman that use same-sex relationships as a way to 'punish' and 'separate' from men.

[–]yousaythosethingsFind and Replace "gatekeeping" with "having boundaries" 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I don’t get this narrative. Weren’t a ton of the first wave feminists hooking up with each other? I thought Susan B. Anthony was an uber-lesbian who got around and hooked up with all the other suffragettes?

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

Just because some first wave feminists supposedly hooked up with each other it doesn't mean that they incorporated lesbians or lesbian rights into their movement.

Like I said before, first wave feminism was a very conservative movement and they feared that taking in lesbians could strengthen the perceived link between lesbianism and woman's rights, aka: 'you want to vote, you must be a lesbian lol'.

Considering how lesbians were treated back them, ignored at best and targets for violent sexual violence at worst, it wasn't very desirable to link the blooming social movement with a predominantly despised portion of the population.