LGB ErasureRemember, "lesbian" is just a porn category... - Coca-Cola criticised for banning the word ‘lesbian’ on customisable Pride bottles

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[–]xanditAGAB (Assigned Gay at Birth) 23 insightful - 3 fun23 insightful - 2 fun24 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

we all know who put lesbian on the banned words lisT

[–]NeedMoreCoffee~=[,,_,,]=^_^= 12 insightful - 3 fun12 insightful - 2 fun13 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Pathetic they banned lesbian. But those people aren't smart to begin with. Have they learned nothing yet? You don't let costumers customize shit.

https://youtu.be/ROaj3bCpZEM

[–]usehername 9 insightful - 8 fun9 insightful - 7 fun10 insightful - 8 fun -  (2 children)

But how will fetishistic men let lesbians know they're one of them?

[–]lovelyspearmintLesbeing a lesbian 8 insightful - 9 fun8 insightful - 8 fun9 insightful - 9 fun -  (1 child)

Now all I can think of is a guy with a tight skirt and cropped tee with a beer gut drinking from a coke bottle with lesbian on the label, making the cheers motion at women who pass by.

[–]usehername 6 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Lol great visual.

[–]fuck_reddit 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

And they quote a trans activist about how stupid the ban is fucking pathetic from everyone in this story, even the author

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

Has any self-proclaimed “LGBTQ” or “LGBT” org ever made an issue out of the pornification and misappropriation of the word “lesbian?” Or how the word gets auto-treated as a porn reference by the major players in Big Tech such as YouTube and its owner Google? Why is it that when I search for “lesbian” and ”[insert mundane search terms that a lesbian might search for],” the results are always porn on Google? Any lesbian who is merely looking for practical information on sex and safe sex will just get porn and at best guides promoted by Google search results that talk about penises in “lesbian sex.”

We could write a laundry list of the practical info that has to deal with homosexual female sex that is either missing entirely despite the vast expanse of the Internet or hidden behind porn and the agendas of fetishistic men.

Why are we supposed to be OK with this? Why are most lesbian and bisexual women silent about this when the chances any of us hasn’t noticed is slim. Whenever I raise this to other gay women, there appears to be a lightbulb that goes off in their head. LGBT(Q) orgs care not the fuck at all and give us crumbs.

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

Has any self-proclaimed “LGBTQ” or “LGBT” org ever made an issue out of the pornification and misappropriation of the word “lesbian?”

Not as far as I'm aware. I just made a similar comment to someone else in this thread about it, but I'd imagine that most MtFs who say they are "lesbian" probably don't see it as misappropriation at all since so many were influenced to identify as "trans lesbians" specifically because of porn. I would bet many don't even feel guilty, they don't even realize anything is being misappropriated.

We could write a laundry list of the practical info that has to deal with homosexual female sex that is either missing entirely despite the vast expanse of the Internet or hidden behind porn and the agendas of fetishistic men.

Yep. It sucks. I was actually reading a couple of really old (9-10 years old) threads on r/actuallesbians, and amazingly, even back then people were trying to police language heavily, centered around transwomen's needs. But there were still a few threads about actual gay sex between women. I felt a little dumb for getting so excited to find even that little, but then, where else would I find it? Certainly not on social media "LGBT" communities, they're all T-dominated.

Whenever I raise this to other gay women, there appears to be a lightbulb that goes off in their head. LGBT(Q) orgs care not the fuck at all and give us crumbs.

Honestly I did not even think the world COULD be any different. I still struggle to visualize how it could be different. I was so floored to find those reddit threads I mentioned, for example. It almost felt a little bewildering.

I kind of wish we had more threads like that on this sub. Or on s/LGB once it finally gets running, I hope. I always feel a little awkward about making posts specific to bisexual women and lesbians on this sub, just because it's all LGB and I know a lot of the men won't be interested, but s/lesbians and s/bisexuals are both really dead, and I'm burnt out on the former, anyway.

[–]Q-Continuum-kin 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

This is actually surprising considering how obsessed MtFs are with using the word.

[–]reluctant_commenter[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I know, right?

I imagine heterosexual and/or autogynephilic MtFs are incentivized to not complain about it, though, because many "discovered" that they were "lesbians" through porn. For some, it may even be that they think "lesbian" should be censored since they think of it as a porn category and think they're being self-degrading every time they call themselves lesbians...

[–]Q-Continuum-kin 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Interesting. The first time i heard and used "Twink" it was playing mmorpgs so I have the opposite sense with that word lol...

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

Hah! Same here with "twink", that one really confused me for a while.

[–]insta 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Oh you can customize these things? How cool!

I thought they just came with the names in the vending machines & stuff & the name you got was just the name you got.

[–]reluctant_commenter[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Oh you can customize these things? How cool!

Yeah but you can't say l*sbian.