#op: lesbian rights

[they-hermes]

Himedanshi Optimus Prime is real

[p1nqu3]

zosanuso yuri

[deep-sea-anemone]

I wish there was more genderqueer Sanji content out there. Or even just gnc Sanji Everything always just jumps straight to complete transfem Sanji.

Where is the love for genderfluid Sanji?? Why does he always have to use she/her pronouns? What's wrong with him wearing heels to fight or a dress to cook in? Wearing some eyeliner while kicking a Marine's face off? Using she/her pronouns but still wearing suits and sleeping in the men's bunk cause it'd feel too weird not to?

Forcing the marines to start adding pronouns to bounty posters cause they spend too long trying to be politically correct on the battlefield and she just beats them up cause it's starting to get annoying??

He/She pronouns Sanji WHERE ARE YOU!?

[wifegideonnav]

at the risk of stirring up controversy… some of you are getting a little too comfortable saying “all sexuality is fluid” :/ like yeah sexuality in general is fluid, sure, of course, but some of you are really out here preaching that no one is fully gay. which is. homophobic. like you guys get that right. if what you’re saying can be boiled down to “maybe you just haven’t met the right man yet” but dressed up in woke language, that’s just straight up classic homophobia. some people are 100% gay (or straight). and if that’s incompatible with your worldview… maybe you should re-examine some things.

[trannydykes]

Y'all need to SHUT UP about "transandrophobia/transmisandry". I saw a post the other day I haven't stopped thinking about, about transmisogyny, and like most the comments were going "Isn't that just transphobia?" (Which is already wild, 'cause it isn't. Since transmisogyny is the overlap of two very real oppressions: Transphobia & Misogyny)

But one was like "Sees post abt transmisogyny, checks blog, transandrophobe. like clockwork." When literally there was no posts on OPs blog that were hateful toward transmascs/men... just posts talking abt OPs experience with transmisogyny. (even if there were it wouldn't be "transandrophobia" cuz its not real, it would just be either transphobia or bullying/harassment depending on if their transness was attacked)

If you see people talking abt women's issues and think "This means they HATE men!!" (trans or no) you need to stop an think for a moment. Women on this site can't make ANY exclusive post (Transmisogyny, Lesbianism, or just talking abt being women) without guys coming along and going "How can I make this about me?".

And I know it's mostly trans men who are suffering through dysphoria and thinking about women makes them ick. But consider for a moment that you don't need to verbalize those thoughts, especially under posts that aren't about you/your experiences.

Please refrain at least from doing it under other ppls posts, I'm begging.

OPs note: I'm not being hostile/trying to start shit. Im just upset and wanna talk abt it. I'm transmasc myself (tho not a man).

[gothducky]

Uruughghrgh I still need to build her... Forever stuck at E1

Linktree / Commissions / Ko-fi

[princessefemmelesbian]

My friend said that Harry Shitter would be a transandrophobia truther and I am literally SCREAMING CRYING THROWING UP AT HOW ACCURATE THAT IS 😭 HE WOULD THO

[yurislava]

since chuuya week and lesbian visibility week take place at the same time...

i love you lesbians!!!

[the-eclectic-wonderer]

Dorothy being assaulted at 17 and then trapped in a marriage for the next 38 years really makes the queer subtext heartbreaking rather than funny. It also adds a whole lot to how barbed she gets when they discuss her sex life and how vanilla it is or how little sex she had, no wonder it would be a sore subject (and no wonder its consistent that she had very little sex with Stan in her marriage and said she didn't enjoy it when they did).

Yep, that's part of the reason why I think that queer subtext is so insightful!

A queer reading of Dorothy is not necessary to understand the gravity of what happened to her, to be fair. Stan is very clearly depicted as a bad lover in general and an especially inattentive lover to her -- take eg what she says of him in S1E22 Job Hunting:

"It took three seconds. I wasn't sure that we had done anything, actually… until nine months later, when the baby came. Then I figured out that we had."

Which... doesn't seem like a great experience. Add onto it the fact that a) this is a recollection of her first time, b) she was coerced into performing the act either via emotional manipulation or alcohol/substances (as well detailed in this post by @eeblouissant), and c) her situation didn't improve at all during her marriage; if anything it got worse, since Stan was always out cheating on her -- no wonder she has a bad relationship with sex! Actually, I've said before that I think she has a remarkably open and healthy attitude towards sex, all things considered.

Thinking of Dorothy as queer (especially as a repressed lesbian) makes it all even more tragic, though. I think it's very likely, considering that she's a Catholic of Italian origin, that she hadn't even realized she liked women by the time she got involved with Stan -- I myself reached that conclusion in my early 20s! However, by that time Dorothy was already married and a mother; can you imagine how painful the mere idea would have been, for her? Of course she'd never even consider it while still married to Stan, and she'd have a hard time coming to terms with it after her divorce. It adds a thick layer of suppression and self-sacrifice to her whole story that I think is very thematically appropriate for her character (and that personally destroys me lmao. I cannot think about it for too long or I'll cry my heart out).

I think her whole experience with Stan also justifies her enthusiasm for some of her lovers in the show, even in a queer reading. I mean -- after all that, her standards must be on the floor! The bar is so low, she's dancing the lambada with the devil! Even a modicum of attention to her needs would blow her mind, I think -- even if it didn't come from her preferred gender, and especially if she wasn't ready to confront the truth about her sexuality yet. A lifetime of suppression isn't easy to get over -- she'd probably blame her bad experience with sex during her marriage on Stan alone (instead of considering that maybe she'd rather not be with a man at all).

Sorry, anon -- you probably weren't expecting a ramble in response, haha! But yeah, you make a great point; reading Dorothy as queer adds even more depth to her character and greatly enhances the tragedy of her story.

(Just for the record -- I've never thought the queer reading of Dorothy was funny! Maybe I'm reading this wrong, I just wanted to clarify.)

[real-total-drama-takes]

This take pisses me off.

You wanna know why? Because it implies that Sierra's harassment of Cody was okay because she knew that Cody is trans. It sounds like this. "Hey Cody! Sorry for harassing you <3 I just knew you were transgender. It's so cool that we fell in gay love now!"

It's apart of the mentality that some people have where making things gay makes it better. No. Making Cody transfem and still putting him in a romantic relationship with Sierra ignores EVERYTHING that he went through with Sierra. Why would you want that for him? Coderra is bad. It's as simple as that. Unless this is your fanon Sierra where she is completely different from canon, coderra is still bad because of the way Sierra treats Cody.

I'm not trying to be transphobic or homophobic. God no. That's the last thing I want. I believe in the lesbian Sierra headcanon myself. You can headcanon Cody as transfem. But having Cody and Sierra still be together, after everything Cody went through with Sierra, I have to ask why? Why would you have Sierra act like that around Cody and then say that she just knew that Cody was trans the entire time and they fell in gay love. LET CODY FIGURE THAT OUT ON HIS OWN. Sierra "knowing" that Cody is trans just makes is worse. Why is she harassing Cody? Because she knows that he's trans? Because she wants him to come to realization? No! Let Cody figure that out on it own time, and let him come to terms with it on his own!

And can we PLEASE stop bringing up Cody whenever we talk about Sierra? Anon, I was on board with that take until you brought up Cody and said they fell in gay love. Why would you say that? Why would you look at World Tour, the way Sierra acted around him, how she talked about him, and then say that they fell in gay love? Just because you made it gay now doesn't mean it's better. It doesn't make it cool. You took a toxic, bad ship and then made it queer. That's all you did. You took a straight toxic relationship and then made it into a queer toxic relationship.

I'm all for lesbian Sierra. God, I had that headcanon for years at this point. But can we PLEASE not make this about Coderra. Coderra is bad for both of them. It's bad for Sierra, because it only allows her to keep acting like that around Cody, and it's bad for Cody because it excuses all the abuse and harassment he received from Sierra. Anon, if you are talking about your own fanon Sierra where she acted nothing like the way she did in canon, PLEASE make it clear. Because you sending that, it doesn't sound good. It doesn't look good.

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[ethereal-drivel]

recent outfits that have been very gender for me (the gender is victorian ghost in search of a knight roaming the moors)

(they/fae)

[dykelizard]

i literally don’t understand how people can look at nami and see anything other than a lesbian??? like that is literally a hard femme dyke she likes GIRLS what are you people talking about

[helianthologies]

when i say barbara and lee shouldve hooked up what i actually mean is they shouldve been doing killing eve shit to each other. they shouldve stabbed each other as a metaphor for gay sex

[icannotgetoverbirds]

saw an exclusionist post so here's a reminder

specifically in reference to transmasc lesbians and trying to draw lines in the sand on who can and can't claim the lesbian label, about how being a lesbian is exclusive of loving men, with someone referring to the people they're attempting to exclude as "fandom gremlin transmascs and neo-mogai crazies."

I don't have the spoons for a proper response but i do feel like i need to make something clear.

on this blog we support fucky genders, fandom gremlin transmascs, and neo-mogai crazies. reblog if u love ur fellow fandom gremlin and neo-mogai crazy queers.

[angeltism]

oh to be part of rentarou's massive sapphic polycule

[princessefemmelesbian]

Just saw this on Quora and wtf:

I may not like Madoka Magica(and in fact anyone who follows me for long enough will know that I hate that anime with a burning passion), but even so that still doesn't make comments like this okay.

I am so tired of people acting like lesbianism(and non-straight identities in general but in this case we're talking about lesbians) is inherently sexual, deviant, and inappropriate. These are the same type of people who think that kids can't be gay or even be told about the possibility of homosexuality because it will groom their young minds or something, as if being gay is something you're groomed into being. And I am sick of people acting like a character can't be gay/lesbian because it doesn't fit their personality or because they're a child or because they're "innocent" or some stupid-ass shit like you're just reinforcing the idea that straight is the default and that straight is morally more pure and "normal" and acceptable than being gay. I bet Larry Koopa doesn't care if a kid the same age as or younger than Madoka(who is 14) is portrayed as straight, because to them that's not inherently sexual the way that being gay is. But a kid being gay? Now don't you think that's going a little bit too far?

This person definitely thinks that all lesbians are mean and hateful and bitter, probably because they measure a woman's level of decency in accordance to how attracted to men they are(which is how we got that ugly fucking "mean bisexual, even meaner lesbian" joke in the first place).

I agree with Peyton Peyons. Madoka is a lesbian, end of story, and nobody gives a shit whether you want to call her your waifu or not, because she doesn't even know you exist. Get out of her, dawg.