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[–]piylot 14 insightful - 1 fun14 insightful - 0 fun15 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

You read accounts of women talking about the sexual abuse they've experienced and your reaction was to think they must not really be lesbians and feel alienated and sorry for yourself...

[–][deleted] 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

As a lesbian who was sexually abuse at 14 and yet knew I was a lesbian at 9, its so fucked up that people like this poster exist. Reading that made me physically nauseous. It is MEN who say we are lesbians just because we have been through abuse and now this asshole is perpetuating that harmful stereotype.

a TON of women get sexually abused. it has nothing to do with the ones of us who are gay.

[–]Icebridge 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Agree completely. I've fortunately never been abused but i find ops outlook on this disgusting. It's interesting to me that so many women are abused but its lesbians that get thier sexuality explained by this. Its a very obvious "explain why she is broken" rationale, when lesbian is the "broken" part. I never see childhood abuse used as the justification for why gay men are gay either, whether the abuse was perpetated by a female or male. Furthermore, if you hate/dislike men as a class you probably aren't a real lesbian is... such a wild take on a sub made up primarily of radfems lol.

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

Agree with it all except people are definitely using it to explain why gay men are gay, if you haven't encountered that that's just selection bias. Also, a lot less people here are radfems than you might initially assume.