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[–]Innisfree 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It is so ironic how the bourgeois culture of yore could not imagine women as sexual beings and started inculcating in them the very same. Mind you, the world provided them enough proof that women can be sexually active, voracious even, but they pathologised it in others to set themselves apart: "My daughter is not like those uncouth working class girls or those sex-crazed maevens" :). And today we have them say "I am special because i am demi-sapio-afdhashfhf-sexual". Ffs!

The most unnatural thing in this whole situation is not the ideas they come up with, but the comfortable bubble they live in that twists minds in the first place.

Meanwhile, lesbians have always existed and will always exist, as will their ways of finding each other, be it drag or Boston Marriages or "friendships", we be inventive. :) The only thing I worry about is who will pass down our histories, our way of seeing the world.

[–]VioletRemi 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

And again the same old song: "women just can't have real sex and they aren't sexually active". At least wealthy women could have somewhat easy life as lesbians during that time, sadly poor ones were not able to go like that

[–]SailorMoon2020 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

There was one lesbian sub reddit I found that constantly posted historical content. It was a small yet active sub reddit. Let's see. It wasn't homosexualwomen, not cislesbians, not AL, or LA, nor trulesbians or gayasians, or queerwomenofcolor-hmm, I'm gonna see if I can find it. Why not, I suppose. They constantly posted of women that I haven't heard of before including a woman born of a slave and a white slave owner. The white slave owner actually paid for her to go to school which stood out to me for obvious reasons. I think he sent her to Europe...