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[–]VioletRemi 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Political lesbians are there since 1970s :)

Here we still don't have much of this western gender mess. Mostly because of homophobic-ish society and because our language has no terms for "gender" and everything sounds extremely weird here.

But it wasn't really long time ago, around 2008-09 maybe? That girl was reading a lot of internet, and I has not really have aceess to internet, except during lessons in Uni. I was thinking I am frigid for the first 20 years of my life, and I did not know about homosexuality at all (all homosexual stuff was banned, censored or removed), I knew that I loved women, but I did not know that I could be with a woman, and I was not masturbating, so I was not knowing my body well, and was not sure how two women even can have sex. And then I started LGB activist, joined some feminist circles here, and so on (until stopped around 2013-14).

[–]Jessica1993 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Hope you don't mind me asking, but what country are you from exactly ?

[–]VioletRemi 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I am from Ukraine. Nowadays we are going away from homophobia and similar stuff (transgender organizations are trying to light up homophobia back, with promoting transgenderism as conversion therapy). If 13 years ago I was beaten up by students for being lesbian, 10 years ago I was fired for people seeing me kissing woman, - now I am semi-open and it is fine-ish. If 10 years ago it was tought to find serious job as engineer, nowadays no one is looking at sex when searching specialists (and even prefering lesbians as we will not be pregnant most likely). Recently finally even was passed a law where feminitives now allowed and preferable to use in official documents, and previous president almost made lesbian/gay social unions possible, but sadly people elected clown (literally populist comic actor without education) instead of previous president second time.

And neigubourgh Russia going opposite direction, lowering women rights and making more and more homophobic laws and propaganda on TV. Sometimes even on russian wikipedia they are removing any mentions of actors or historical figures of being bisexual or homosexual, even if that was important part of their life.

[–]Jessica1993 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Oh so we're neighbours, i'm from Romania, another shithole when it comes to gay rights and movement, but yeah even here things got better in the last few years although it's not likely we will get civil unions and not to mention marriages very soon, we just had a referendum 2 years ago that said that marriage is only legal between a man and a woman but luckily it didn't pass because not enough people showed up at the voting, still at least we don't have to be worried we're going to be killed by stones like people from Arab countries .

[–]VioletRemi 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Well, we most likely will not get for the next 4-5 years too, as this president is not interested in anything like that. Previous was interested in general in improving life of everyone. And yeah, you are right :)

Those people are so weird, they are voting against homosexual marriages and other stuff, almost like homosexuality is something that can spread, while it is how you born and that is it. Changing laws will not make more or less homosexuals, lol.

[–]Jessica1993 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Maybe they are afraid that gay people will have less shittier marriages than them and they don't want to look bad . I mean the domestic abuse stuff will certainly be better than them that's for sure .