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[–]lairacunda 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I think you are giving political lesbianism as a movement and as a force way too much credit. Yes, we'd all be screwed if Women's Lib had not happened. But most of the 2nd Wave women were not lesbians, political or bona fide. In fact one of the reasons the momentum died out was because so many women married themselves into patriarchal servitude.

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

I am inclined to agree. I would love to see actual numbers on it, but from how I have heard political lesbianism described, it seems like it was a minority group within second wave feminism.