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Inspired by Jaymes Young’s “Infinity”.

The creator of the seven stripe lesbian flag (the pink and orange one) is getting bullied and harassed on twitter for not supporting “bisexual lesbians”. Ppl who are not lesbians are proposing flags that look horrid and are inclusive of lesbians of “all sexualites”. People are also implying that the creator of the seven stripe flag is as bad as a TERF or a biphobe for being adamant that lesbianism does not include men.

I had a point here but I’m just gonna say like. You all hate lesbians and you’re absolutely fucking sick in the head. I said it on twitter and I’ll say it here: lesbians are the smallest group in the LGBT community and we’re constantly harassed and sidelined. You all need to do better

satansonmyside

im jus tryna take a pretty girl out on a “let's grab a hot chocolate and drive around to look at pretty christmas lights" kind of date pls

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are u a cowboy wlw, pirate wlw, or a vampire wlw

#vampire all the way babey!!

she-loves-coffee

she loves coffee

#thats the dream

edritchtwink

You know i dont get homoerotically pinned to the wall nearly enough

edritchtwink

wow this got more notes than expected thanks bottoms we out there

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lesbiancousin

happy pride everyone im enlisting your help to convince my girlfriend to be the bee movie with me for halloween we have 5 months to change her mind let’s go… gay rights!!!

lesbiancousin

success!

princessknightt

lesbians aren't actually useless or clueless or whatever, we're just scared that we're reading the signals wrong and will end up being labeled a predatory lesbian because that's the kind of stereotype that's been hoisted on us, especially with girls we don't absolutely for sure know is into girls. also our culture downplays female affection as everything but romantic in nature so of course lesbians won't know if their female friend is genuinely interested or just being friendly and the useless lesbian stereotype is a byproduct of these things and not something that should be poked fun at all the time.

thatoneemobooknerd

^^^

nerdyqueerfangirl

yo not to be a big homo on main but girls sitting on counters is pretty hot

suckmygirldickstaff

It’s where the snacks are prepared!

nerdyqueerfangirl

that’s it you win

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Years ago, I thought I was a lesbian.

As a result, I was bullied until I no longer felt safe disclosing my identity.

More recently, I came out as aroace.

As a result, I was bullied until I no longer felt safe disclosing my identity.

The same things said to me when I thought I was a lesbian get said now.

But homophobes and exclusionists insist on keeping the discourse, and it drives our communities apart.

And it's so stupid, when my twelve year old self was told "you'll change your mind when you find a nice guy", and my twenty one year old self is told "you'll change your mind when you find a nice guy".

At 12 I was told I was lying. "There's no such thing as lesbians," one boy told me, "girls have to like boys."

But even though I found out I was wrong I was not lying.

At 21 I am told I am lying. "There's no such thing as aromantic," one person tells me, "girls have to like boys."

But I am not a girl and I am not lying.

And when I speak up I am told to stay quiet, that I'm making life harder for others, that I'm wrong and lying and deserve to be bullied.

And I look at my 12 year old self, at how worms were shoved into my locker, at how my classmates outed me to my teachers, at how my teachers then took me aside and told me I shouldn't talk about my sexuality because it's innappropriate.

And to think that my 12 year old self told me it would get better, but nearly ten years later my sexuality is still innappropriate.

Our communities should be helping each other, but especially AFAB and female aromantics and lesbians.

Because our experiences overlap, and we can help each other more than homophobes and exclusionists would like us to think.

Being a lesbian is revolutionary. Daring to let yourself love when you're told you aren't real, you're wrong, you'll find a nice man, is amazing. Be proud, whether you're out or not. You're fighting against people who think women should like men, against people who think lesbian relationships aren't "real", and that is incredible.

Being aromantic is revolutionary. Loving purrly platonically when you're told it doesn't count, it's not real, you'll find someone and it'll be better, is amazing. Whether you're out or not, you're fighting people who think you should like the opposite gender, that platonic relationships just aren't as strong as romance, that there's something wrong with you, and that is incredible.

Aromantic and Lesbian solidarity for the win.

💖💚💖💚💖💚

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valtsv

demons are a girl's best friend

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intersex-ionality

So, about that flag...

Not to start a Discourse Riot or anything, but the entire lesbian flag debacle? Like, literally the whole entire thing?

It’s all a terf thing.

All of it. Not just the labrys flag. Not just the lipstick flag. Not just the butch flag. The entire fact that we’ve been trapped discussing a fucking flag design for multiple years and it’s literally tearing our community apart at the seams benefits one group and one group only:

TERFs.

Note how bi men and bi women use the same flag. Note how ace men and ace women use the same flag.

Note how trans men and trans women, the literal people for whom gender is the defining issue of queerness, the people for whom a gendered division of flag politics could actually, arguably be considered a real issue, use. The same. Flag.

Note how the first lesbian flag is now a TERF symbol.

Note how every subsequent lesbian flag has all the same flaws, which cause it to realistically only be possible for the design to be re-created by large companies rather than independent queer creators on any kind of significant scale, forcibly excising actually poverty-level queers from participating in anti-capitalist revolutionary praxis.

Note how the profusion of lesbian flag designs has been used as a tool to fracture queer solidarity and further feed into the increasing and almost entirely TERF-motivated and TERF-empowering belief that lesbians are somehow Separate and Especially Hated by the rest of the queer coalition.

Now, this doesn’t mean that every person who participates in lesbian flag discourse is a terf or everyone who designs lesbian flags is a terf or whatever. Don’t get your heads that far up your asses.

But really take a step back here.

Really think about this entire shitshow from a greater perspective.

Who benefits from this?

Not even straight people are particularly empowered by this, or at least, no moreso than they are by any kind of queer fracturing.

But TERFs? Oh yeah, TERFs get a HUGE power boost by isolating lesbians from the rest of the queer community and turning them into an easily targeted and abused population.

Literally step one in indoctrinating someone into a cult is to fucking isolate them from their greater support systems, for fucks sakes.

And this whole, “look how much all the other queers hate you! They’re just as bad as the everyone else! They won’t even give you a flag!” shit?

It 100% isolates lesbians from the queer community and makes them accessible to TERF indoctrination.

So, how do we solve this problem?

Well, in my personal opinion, the obvious solution is to fucking eliminate all TERFs on sight by silencing them until they actually fucking learn to be decent human beings, and re-claim the Actual Historical Lesbian Flag from their disgusting, bigoted, abusive hands.

It’s a good flag, Brett.

An image of a puppy, holding a labrys flag. The dog is also wearing a first place ribbon that is rainbow colored.

I mean, really, look at that flag. What did TERFs ever do to deserve a flag that features such a beautifully designed melding of yonic and phallic feminine symbolism? That is so unrepentantly destructive towards societal norms? They’re such fetishistic, conservative shitheads.

But, like, listen. This is just an idea.

The real fucking thesis statement here is that this entire fucking flag debate is a fucking TERF propaganda piece.

I am losing my mind over the fact that no one ever seems willing to acknowledge this, we all just keep barreling forward in making it even harder and harder for independent queer creators to actually integrate lesbians into our work, and making it easier and easier for TERFs to isolate lesbians from the queer community and turn them into more fucking TERF shitheads.