LGB ErasureJulie Bindel: There's no gay gene – and I love the idea I chose to be a lesbian

submitted by yousaythosethingsFind and Replace "gatekeeping" with "having boundaries" from newstatesman.com

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[–]PatsyStoneMaverique 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

She studiously avoids mentioning sexual attraction so much it's impossible to tell who she wants.

The sexual history she gives sounds lesbian to me, I'm not sure what the benefit of redefining the identity of a woman who's been an out lesbian for more than 40 years is supposed to be.

This seems to boil down to a political disagreement between lesbians of different social classes over self-definition.

To me she's a lesbian in word and deed, you can't evaluate thought without engaging in some pretty fucked up behavior.

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I’m with you, it is shitty behavior. Sometimes you’ve got to go wrestle in the muck and it ain’t that nice. I’m however not going to sit here on my hands and never challenge somebody’s identity. Or what that identity should be a membership of. That’s exactly how you end up where we are today with the T.

[–]PatsyStoneMaverique 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I mean that's good and all, I think she qualifies as a lesbian and the issue is related to class differences between lesbian.

Ops standard of lesbianism makes most homosexual women who lived before the 90s actually bisexual.