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[–]VioletRemi 19 insightful - 2 fun19 insightful - 1 fun20 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

Such podcasts, interviews or videos are super harmful to lesbians, especially lesbian youth. Both straight men and lesbians themselves are being told that it is just a "choice" and period in their life, so straight men can hunt for lesbians and "convert" them to straight women, and young lesbians thinking it is just bad period in their lives and they must try to become at least bisexual. I suffered myself from this...

It is just clear lesbophobia and lesbian erasure, gay men are never believed to be "just a period", while lesbians "can't exist, so it is temporarily". Argh.

[–]paleolithicat[S] 13 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 0 fun14 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I agree completely, it was an interview about her new book so it didn't center around that but if you are a lesbian you are sensitive to such sentences and topics even when on the side.

You make a very good point about gays too. Men are also never considered to be gay "because of a cause". And they do not get labeled as "angry womanhaters".

What troubles me is that there seem to be real women spreading this nonsense as their personal story. I feel it really does contribute to less real (mostly closeted) lesbians identifying with the label and thus it is a step backward. I personally meet almost only bisexual women in my country of residence (in Western Europe) and almost all girls I have met from "homophobic" countries in Eastern Europe, South America etc seem to be more comfortable with being exclusively attracted to women.

[–]VioletRemi 14 insightful - 1 fun14 insightful - 0 fun15 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Karen started looking more about lesbian problems (and a bit gay men issues too) on her channel (she is straight, GC feminist), and there about what you said: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6s0KTm1vSyo & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piJyDa6EW7A

And yeah, one West it seems to be bigger pressure nowadays on lesbians, and how Karen noticed there - that lesbian comes online, and seeing that tag "lesbian" is either on pornography, or in places like /r/ActualLesbians, which focuses on penises and straight men in wigs - so such lesbian thinks "yeah, it is not what I am, I gues I am not homosexual woman after all, but something different and will call myself something different, as I don't want to be associated with this".

[–]paleolithicat[S] 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Omg she is awesome!!! Thanks! 😂👌👌

[–]VioletRemi 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah, she deserves all the subscribers and more people to know about her! New Magdalen Burns, just less direct and more cozy. Karen was banned on Twitter and Facebook for defending women.