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[–]strawberrysun 26 insightful - 1 fun26 insightful - 0 fun27 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

In the comments she talks about how she would make out with guys at parties and viewed them as a "loose option"... Yeah, she was never a lesbian.

[–]SickOfThisShit 15 insightful - 1 fun15 insightful - 0 fun16 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

She was exclusively with women before, she wasn't exclusively a lesbian. The issue I have is with this isn't so much that she misidentified that she was a lesbian, people figuring themselves out can make mistakes. Although the bit about her making out with dudes is frustrating. But the part that irritates me more is she doesn't say she used to identify as a lesbian, and now realizes she was bisexual, she says she was a lesbian.

[–]RedditHatesLesbians[S] 21 insightful - 1 fun21 insightful - 0 fun22 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Yeah, this is my biggest gripe with it too. It gives the vibe that this guy "turned" her, which feeds into conversion therapy rhetoric. People are allowed to be bisexual, and I'm sure many kinsey 5.5s genuinely think they're lesbians until they're incidentally attracted to a man one time. But that means you were never a lesbian - guess that doesn't sound provocative and shocking enough though. "I used to be a lesbian until I met this one guy who rocked my world" is such a straight male fantasy, while "I didn't realise I was bisexual until I was in my late 20s" isn't really

[–]Mobymaybe 15 insightful - 1 fun15 insightful - 0 fun16 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

She needed that catchy title for all that sweet reddit karma.

[–]Hello367 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

What does she mean by "it's a tale as old as time?"

[–]Rubyredpython 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Meeting Mr right trumps lesbianism.

[–]hufflepuff-poet 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

She was never a lesbian, just a bisexual woman who hadn't met a man she was attracted to enough to date. Lesbians are women only attracted to other women, why is this such a hard concept for people to grasp?!

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

Ugh why can't people just admit they are bisexual? I know there's a lot of biphobia in society but seriously...