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[–]Hydiee 22 insightful - 1 fun22 insightful - 0 fun23 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Pre-apology for my negativity, but most of this was eye-roll inducing. She said the prime reason she doesn't call herself a lesbian is because she didn't face homophobia growing up and had different experiences from most lesbians. How about, "I don't call myself a lesbian because I'm not one." That's all I wanted to see.

Bisexual people are regularly smeared as disease-ridden, promiscuous and anti-feminist.

People say that bisexual people are "anti-feminist"? Is that an actual thing that people actually say? Highly doubt that

[–]LesbianInExile[S] 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Political "lesbians" say being bisexual is anti-feminist because being a lesbian to them is about taking a stand against the patriarchy and being separate from men, not about a sexual orientation. In terms of sexual orientation, a lot of political lesbians are actually bisexuals but are febfems who call themselves lesbians.

[–]Hydiee 13 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 0 fun14 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I've always thought that most political lesbians are straight women because they always talk about unlearning attraction to men and learning attraction to women. Bisexual women wouldn't have to force attraction to women, especially not febfems who prefer women. But yeah, political lesbians do see lesbianism as some kind of revenge against men. It's all about men men men for them.

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

Do all political lesbians even date or have sex with women? I've once seen one who claimed lesbianism was about centering women, not about attraction.

[–]Hydiee 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Centring women is what they try to sell it as, but if they are going around telling other straight & bi women that being attracted to men is "anti-feminist" then idk.