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Rona and strap what’s better than that

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is this anything

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butches in their natural habitat (bookstore)

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If lesbians are so predatory where are they and why aren't they in my DMS.

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a reminder that scars, stretch marks, birthmarks, acne, etc, don’t make you any less hot or any less butch

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the ultimate butch boss

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peace and love on planet butchfemme! ♡ (creator of the “beloved butch” + “beloved femme” heart carabiners finally got to match with their beloved butch)

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rb if you love hairy dykes!

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It never ceases to amaze me how on top of lesbians fighting for the rights of plenty of other oppressed groups constantly, we're also demanded that sort of labor by those other oppressed people who not only never fight for us, but actively shit on us all the time.

What would feminism be without lesbians? Why do you think the stereotype of a "raging feminist" is an angry gender non-conforming lesbian? With or without flaws, what would the work of deconstructing patriarchal relations between men and women look like without the input of lesbians? Despite most of us being in relationships in which pregnancy isn't possible without intervention, why are we still the face of abortion rights to the point that fascists associate us with it even though in their minds we shouldn't even need it since they don't accept trans people and they'll never acknowledge our corrective rapes either?

Who's stood by gay men's side for decades in a way they rarely do for us unless it immediately benefits them too? Why are we always showing up to protests and other such instances when a gay man is wronged even in the slightest but whenever a lesbian is a victim of a hate crime it's only lesbians showing up? Even cishet women show up for us more than them.

I'll never forget this video I watched of an older gay man who survived the initial phase of the AIDS crisis who reminisced about his guilt; he commented that the only people who were there for him and his own when they needed help most, were lesbians. It was lesbians nursing them back to something resembling health, staying day and night next to their death-beds comforting them, serving as a communicator between gay lovers and participating in activism.

The reason behind his guilt was because, before that, he and his own would constantly humiliate and shit on lesbians. We (especially gender non-conforming dykes) were their permanent punching bags before we were the only ones to stand up for them and with them, and he felt he didn't deserve the unasked help they immediately got from lesbians.

This is a constant for us. Even within the LGBT community we're the laughing stock. We're the punching bag. We're the boogeyman and the scapegoat. Don't even get me started on cishet women, you all are also the fucking worst to us, even the most feminist of you.

And yet you all demand our activism and feel enraged when we don't give it to you immediately.

No shit lesbians are "mean", YOU DON'T GIVE US ROOM TO BE ANYTHING ELSE. It seems the only way we could ever stop being "mean" is by taking your abuse lying down and thanking you every time you spit on our faces.

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Hate this fucking app when people think it's appropriate to talk to lesbians like they know more about lesbians than lesbians do

I'm a lesbian you aren't.

You aren't gay, I am.

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If you can't discuss your identity or what you need/want from the community without being homophobic/transphobic, maybe you are a bigot with an identity as a mask.

I'm allowed to kiss my girlfriend in the queer bar (the only place we are allowed to even touch in public at all) if you use your identity to say we can't kiss on the cheek or hold hands because it grosses you out, you're homophobic.

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Hey, y'all, me discussing oppression and privileges that different people face within the queer community isn't saying you aren't valid.

Everyone who says they are queer are queer.

You still need to acknowledge your privileges, though, just like everyone else.

Not doing so harms the community.

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Sorry? Your fetish is lesbians? Nah, I'm gonna start kink shaming, idgaf

Like nonlesbians don't even joke about this...

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Other queer people stop fetishizing lesbians for 2 mins challenge

Other queer people stop fetishizing trans/enby people for 2 mins challenge

Other queer people stop fetishizing more oppressed minorities in the queer community for 2 mins challenge

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A lot of people are saying Barbieland was patriarchy in reverse but it really wasn't? Like the Barbies were polite to the Kens, invited them to fun stuff, treated their injuries, but otherwise just wanted to be left to their own devices. That's not how it was when the Kens took over, nor how patriarchy functions in reality. Men very much want women around. They want women to serve them, whether it's preparing their food, getting their drinks, having and raising their children, or in the bedroom. I think it's really telling that men see being excluded from relationships with women or from being involved in our private lives as equal to women being forced in to subordination to men. The Kens don't get ogled in Barbieland. Getting ogled is one of the first things that happens to Barbie when she gets to the real world. The Barbies don't hate the Kens or want to hurt them, they just could take or leave them and would rather hang out with each other. I don't know that the movie itself was saying what if women did this to men, I don't think it was, but certainly a lot of viewers think so, and honestly I'm not aware of any film or short or whatever that actually does that right. Some of them try, but you still end up with the women wearing makeup and having no facial hair while men are groomed but not made up the way women are pressured to be in actual reality. I just wish more people actually understood what men's oppression of women really is because it's so much more than exclusion and hurt feelings. Barbieland was not a reverse of anything and personally I think the Kens got off too easy at the end.