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

although it would be helpful to be able to be less freaked out.

Absolutely :). In the context of this forum it is understandable why women are on edge(the TRA debacle). Plus my guess is the people who misunderstood you are people who also said that they are not political and don't want to be. Now if this big thread at least nudged them to question their position, that's already a big win.

And I hope you will keep posting here. I only joined and warmed up to staying because your comments absolutely crack me up!

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I am thrilled with this thread and don’t care about people liking me as much as I care about trying to shit less on entire generations of women who were trying things to help other women break free from extremely oppressive norms. The fact is, lesbians find lesbians and stay. That’s who stays, same-sex attracted women, the ones who were “born that way” or born MOSTLY that way. Lesbians will never stop existing. It’s not going to happen. But we sure like making it hard for them to get to us when we feel like the best analysis we can come up with about political lesbianism as a whole is by saying “fuck them, they are not lesbians!” when liberal feminism thinks being a prostitute or pornographer is empowering. Are we really trying to hate good old Sheila when at least she figured we could choose away from all of that? I don’t agree with her exact stance on orientation but I’ll be damned if I can’t admit she cares about women more than the majority who claim to.

And thank you