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I saw this on twitter yesterday and it upset me so much it genuinely ruined my night
Everybody wants the mystique of lesbians/lesbianism without any of the drawbacks of living as a lesbian and they resolve this dissonance by... Adding to the drawbacks of living as a lesbian personally.
Other gay women, the culturally str8 ones, want to be seen as Just As Gay (as us, it's always about being as gay As Lesbians), but won't stop exclusively dating and fucking cis men. How they see access to a lesbian's hole/strap/fingers/tongue as The Ultimate Gay Validator, and get angry any time this access is even theoretically rescinded (as if we're not the minority of gay women out there). Because we're not a fellow human being to them. We're an object of self-actualization and self-validation. An item in a bucket list to cross out.
Trans men who exclusively like women demanding to be kept within lesbian community against our will and through sacrificing their transfem gay sisters, and then they try to paint dykebreaking kinks as revolutionary. Because they don't want to be Straight Men™, and instead of dedicating themselves to straight trans men's culture and history the way straight trans women absolutely do, they usurp our cultural baggage instead.
Cis gay men won't shut the fuck up about how our fetishization is supposedly another privilege of ours, Unlike Them who Actually suffer, and then when we manage to spread awareness on the connection between our fetishization and our corrective rapes? Suddenly fetishization is The Worst thing that can happen... Because fujoshis.
Straight women appropriate our cultural signifiers for Coolness Rebel Points, then get mad when we tell them those mean something to dykes, tell us we don't own anything, and THEN when people understandably assume they're also lesbians...? "I'm not an UGLY, FAT AND HAIRY, MAN-HATING DYKE." Not to mention how they'll panic assuming we Must want them, and then get twice as offended if we actually don't want them.
And straight men... Have you seen all the videos of straight men dressing like masculine dykes (especially like studs), trying to flirt like masculine dykes...? And joining bi men in m-spec "lesbian" and "biphobic lesbians are the wooooorst" discourse? ONLY FOR THE NON LESBIAN WOMEN INTERACTING WITH THEM TO BE MOSTLY PRAISING THEM?
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@thementalistscandidate So since this is a topic not a lot of people are aware of, I'll do an informal, sourceless rundown about the history here.
The term "Khoisan" in South Africa is a term referring to two indigenous groups of people the hunter-pastoralist "Khoikhoi" and the forager "San". According to popular history these groups were in South Africa prior to the agro-pastoralist "Bantu" - in SA this term is kind of outdated like Negro or Colored in the USA, which is why I use Ntu-speaker instead.
In actuality there is no such thing as "Khoisan", or at least there wasn't up until a century ago when a German zoologist and race scientist named Leonhardt Schultze-Jena used victims of the Herero and Nama genocide as research subjects to figure out whether there was a difference between the "Bushman" (San) and the "Hottentot" ("Khoikhoi"). When he found that there wasn't much physiological difference between them, he declared them one people - "Khoisan".
This term then permeated throughout academia via linguistics who coined the term "Khoisan" languages to refer to those click languages which did not belong to the proposed "Niger-Congo" languages that other black South Africans spoke. The "Khoisan" language family has been split into a minimum of 5 different families at this point.
So, the term is one that was invented by an active participant in a genocide and homogenises at least two different groups of people into a generic term. So "Khoisan" is definitely a troublesome term meaning we should use "Khoikhoi" and "San" right?
Well, "Khoikhoi" actually should be spelt "Khoekhoe" and pronounced something like "Kwe-kwe" if trying to use the indigenous name. The term "Khoena" is becoming more in use these days. Both of these terms really just mean "the people" and there's a lot of debate around them but for now, either is fine.
The term "San" comes from Khoemana, the standardised version of Southern Khoe language. It just means "forager" and could really apply to any group of foragers no matter their ethnicity or "race". So there were "San" who today would be considered "Khoekhoe" or Ntu-speaking". The various San groups don't really have a indigenous term that encompasses all of them, hell many in Botswana and Namibia dislike San and prefer Bushman or Basarwa respectively (which have similar meanings). If you want to talk about South African foraging groups San works but you gotta be aware that it's not exactly accurate.
Really there isn't an umbrella term to refer to both while excluding the indigenous farmers who have also lived here for millennia. The idea that you can really do that in any meaningful way is actually another scientific racist theory which was used to excuse colonialism. I'll post about that (Stow-Theal) another time.
TL;DR use Khoena/Khoekhoe, San and Ntu-speakers if you want generalised distinct group terms but know the actual history is a lot messier and these groups weren't like neatly separated as it's made out to be.
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Jack Anawak says he doesn't know how people can deny what occurred at residential schools. "It really is questionable to see whether the deniers really believe that or they just want to go through the process of assimilation and forget about the First Nations and Inuit," he said. "It is unbelievable to see that there's still that racism out there." Anawak, a longtime Nunavut politician who attended residential school at Chesterfield Inlet, said there are still people who believe residential schools were good for Indigenous people.
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