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[–]PatsyStoneMaverique 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I've never been with other lesbians and I don't now anything about what life looks like for most lesbians...

Ding! Ding! Ding! That's what's going on here. Lesbians are normal people the vast majority of the time. They work a job, have their hobbies, have their woman, have their lives. Media representations of gay people are awful and always have been. They say more about the preoccupations of their creators (straight men 90% of the time) than they do about us.

I grew up in an isolated rural area and it's harsh to say, but my life didn't get better until I moved to an actual city. It's not just closed minded people, I had gay friends in the town I grew up in, it's access to resources and other people and privacy. It's great to work with people who don't know your whole family and your entire dating history.