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[–]yousaythosethingsFind and Replace "gatekeeping" with "having boundaries" 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Do they also love to eat meat in a vegan way? Do they accept Jesus Christ as their lord and savior in a Muslim way? Are they socialists in a capitalist way? LOL probably yes on the last one.

But in all seriousness this mindset really harmed me and kept me from accepting my homosexuality. I didn’t think I was attracted to women in a gay way, so how could I be gay? Surely it didn’t make me gay.

Expect it did. Because I am female and am solely attracted to other women. I thought surely if I was gay there would be some independent internal feeling associated with that. Except there isn’t. It’s the sole fact that I’m female and everyone I’m attracted to is female that makes me gay. There’s nothing about the way that I experience that attraction that makes it gay. Put a different way, it’s the confluence of 4 facts:

(1) I’m female as a factual matter, not a matter of identity.

(2) I’m attracted to other females.

(3) I’ve never been attracted to any males.

(4) This pattern has always been true for me.

How I feel about any of the above makes no difference. How I identify makes no difference. And sexual attraction is scientifically discernible. It’s a reaction of your body and mind. Not some unfalsifiable, imperceptible, esoteric concept or disembodied feeling. It’s literally based in the body.

[–]schomee 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

This is how AGP/AAP heterosexuals harm gays and lesbians. Can you imagine AGP flooding the internet and lesbian spaces and creating a culture that "teaches" lesbians how it feels like to be attracted to women? It would be so alien and weird that lesbians will either be convinced theyre not lesbians or that they are but theyre somehow straight men trapped in women's bodies and will end up transitioning because they fit the definition of a man better.

Gays and Lesbians are basically aliens to these people. Theyre just straight fetishists, fine. Hate groups exist and it's not like gays/lesbians have an obsession with going after them. But the problem with these people is theyre obsessed with us. They want to teach us what it's like to be gay/lesbian and inform us and we already know what they think and it's so broken and wrong. They dont want to be "accepted". They want us to redefine and destroy ourselves to the point where we erase our homosexuality and gender so that their differences are never brought up.

It's like asking black people to remove their race so we can pretend racism doesnt exist, or women to remove their sex and now gays/lesbians to remove their homosexuality to get along with everyone else. It doesnt work. It not only increases the homophobia, it also destroys the community they want access to. And they only want access to it because it's now slightly empowering and positive but when they trash it and tear it apart, magically all of them will disappear and leave us to pick up the pieces because they no longer fetishize a community they ruined that it's no longer considered attractive.

[–]yousaythosethingsFind and Replace "gatekeeping" with "having boundaries" 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Can you imagine AGP flooding the internet and lesbian spaces and creating a culture that "teaches" lesbians how it feels like to be attracted to women?

This is “lesbian Reddit” in a nutshell. They respond to questions asked by unassuming young lesbian, bisexual, and questioning women all the time without disclosing the fact that they’re male. No one calls them out for it anymore because anyone who is inclined to is already banned or is banned within nanoseconds.